Data Loss, a Fault Tolerance?

As vast as IT can be, it is only one thing information or Data manipulation. That is why when it comes to data protection everyone should feel concerned. Whether directly or indirectly, we all can be affected by the loss of data. Regarding this issue 43% of PC users in the world lose some data. To prevent this, people are advice to do online back-up. For many, online backup of their data looks like a great opportunity while others think it is not that great. It is important to address this issue so that our readers can decide whether to consider online Back-up of their data or not.

    According to CNN, of those who store personal data on their machines, only 57 percent back up their data. Among users who don't back up their data, over a third said it hadn't occurred to them to do so, while another 31 percent said it simply wasn't important to them (CNN Money). Many between them continue to do their back-up using the tradition methods of CD, DVD, and additional hard drives. These are great and smart ways to keep data safe against threats.

    These methods, as mention earlier, are good especially with the involvement and hackers, computer crashes, and threats. They are safe until fire or any other natural disaster happens. The possibility of failure happens to arrive. So, there are still some inconveniences with those personal and safe methods of backing up data. According to USA Today, About 70% of business people have experienced data loss due to accidental deletion, disk or system failure, viruses, fire or some other disaster (USA Today).

    Although it might have some inconvenience also, it seems that the solution to the crisis of data safety depends on in online back up. There is no need to carry them anymore and online back \-up can be accessible anywhere in the world. You can develop your own patterns to keep them safe in case of system hacking. For example divide important data in different segment that only you can understand you restore the file in a whole. Online back-up can save you in many cases regarding the convenience and accessibility that it offers.

Ref

CNN Money: Data backup no big deal to many, until... (2009) Retrieved in February 10, 2009

http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/07/technology/data_loss/index.htm

 

USA Today: Lost digital data cost businesses billions (2006). Retrieved in February 10, 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2006-06-11-lost-data_x.htm

How to shut down your computer remotely

Once in a while it happens to be that we have some do on a PC like: Installing software, running an antivirus. But unfortunately, something comes up and requires leaving immediately. So, leaving the computer open can make you worry of other people using it.

You might wonder how you can set up your system to shut down automatic. This is the reason I write this tutorial, I will explain in details how to shut down your computer remotely.

To get started, you will need:

1. An E-mail account ( pop3 like Gmail)
   
2. An Outlook account
   
3. A Cell Phone
   
4. A kwiry account
   

Step one: you need to create a file names "shutdown.bat" in notepad with the line of "c:\windows\system32\shutdown –s –f –t 00"

The second step is to set up Outlook as pop3 account.

To do so, go to tools, Account settings, new, then select Microsoft Exchange, PO3, IMAP, or HTML

Then next to enter your POP3 E-mail account and password.

Our incoming mail server will "pop.gmail.com" if our email is an email account and our outgoing mail server will be "smtp.gmail.com". Fill out the rest then click on More Settings.

Click on advanced. Incoming server will be setting up at 995 and outgoing server at 587 then ok to close the box. Click next. Then finish.

Now we are going to create our kwiry account. We go to www.kwiry.com

We sign up to an account that will allow us to send text messaging to our email account.

Now we go back to Outlook. We will set up send/receive to be updating every minute.

Then we go tools, Rules and Alerts. Click on new Rule. Then blank Rule, check messages when they arrive. Select Specific subject, then Specific word. Type in the box " your kwiry-shutdown"

Then we select start application, and the application then browse for the application file "shutdown.bat". Then we click next and then finish.

Now to shutdown our PC, we are going to send a text message from our cell phone to "59479" with the word "shutdown".

Here we go! It's working for me.

Thank you for commenting my blog.

Your DHCP is not authorized?

Most of the time you start your Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and it returns an error. This issue occurs most of the time with the use of an incorrect IP address for the DHCP server that is being authorized in Active Directory Domain Services. Therefore, Active Directory Domain Services does not recognize the DHCP server when the DHCP server role is installed. It can be very difficult to resolve since Server Manager does not prompt you when Active Directory Domain Services does not recognize the DHCP server.

The first in resolving the issue is to:

1. Click on Start, Administration Tools, then DHCP.
   
2. In the DHCP MMC snap-in, right-click the DHCP server name, and then click Authorize.
   
3. To exit the DHCP MMC snap-in, click Exit on the File menu.
   

This should put you on the right path to resolve the issue. Although, you might need to restart the DHCP Server before the change can take effect. Then click Start, Network, Network and Sharing center, and then make sure the Server and the Network are connected. The go back to Server Manager DHCP services are started. Make sure it sets on automatic. However, you need to make sure you setup statics addresses on the Server and on the Client.

This should let you ping your IP from any Client on the Network.

Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954416