Looking at Buying Mircosoft Products

Books: Server 2008 & Infomoration Systems Management

Backup your files with Norton's Ghost

Online Schooling- WGU

There are a great number of E-colleges as we can call them, but one that was mentioned to me lately is the Western Goverenors University.

Take a look at the College of Information Technology.

It appears that you only pay twice a year and there is not a limit on how many classes you can take.
Look at their tuition page.

CheckOut Espy

Espy designs databases
Learn more about Espy at espy.com.

Business to Business E-commerce.

B2B E-commerce through low start up costs.
fotolia.com
Use fotography skills to take pictures and sell them online to businesses who would use them in the design of their websites.

And B2C E-commerce through low start up costs
monkeysurvey.com
Use script and designer skills to design programs to run surveys.


Amazon.com did not a low start up cost.

AVG states that 43% of Computer Users Annually Lose Data. What’s the truth?

In reading a CRS Report for Congress dated back to September 2006, I gathered some startling statistics as to lack of surety IT professionals had in their own systems. They state: that "an August 2006 study by the Elk Rapids, MI-based privacy management research company Ponemon Institute found that only 37% of information technology professionals believed their company is effective at preventing data breaches (Deborah Rothberg, "IT Pros Say They Can't Stop Data Breaches," eWeek, August 30, 2006 at [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2010325,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614]) . Citing a lack of resources and high product costs as barriers to preventing data leakages, only 43% believed their company would detect a large data breach (involving more than 10,000 customer records) more than 80% of the time (Sponsored by Port Authority Technologies, independently conducted by Ponemon Institute, National Survey on the Detection and Prevention of Data Security Breaches, August 28, 2006, at [http://www.portauthoritytech.com/resources/downloads/wp_Ponemon_Institute_Study.pdf]).

With companies cutting budgets in the current economic challenge, what is stopping companies from not spending the necessary measures to ensure the integrity of their data. Yes, of course for the competitive edge companies will want to protect databases that hold information pertaining to new-release products, customer profiles, and financial data. But, what about employee data, is it safe? We understand that laws are place, but no one finds out about these losses unit someone tells, and that is usually forced by a Federal Agency that comes to audit the system or another auditing agency. Will these groups be paid off, are their ethics left in the system, is there enough government funding to pay these auditors? Our economy has a great deal to do with our security.

After searching and researching credible sources, I found one site from Pepperdine University. They actually cite their sources; whereas, the two sites using this claim to sell a service to back-up data, did not cite their sources. The article states that information loss has many sources, but they only credited forty percent of data loss to hardware failure (David M. Smith, PhD, The Cost of Lost Data). From the sources cited from the university's article I would trust the information as credible. With 40% of hard drives failing, I personally if I were a hard drive manufacturer I would invest into research searching for the way to improve the life a hard drive. I would then develop the hard drive and use it as a great marketing for my companies name as the company with quality hard drives. If this could be proven, it would raise the question to large business and government entities to switch to a more reliable hard drive. So there is a business opportunity waiting to explode.

I end with my statement that yes, it is a great idea to back up files in some form or another whether this be by trusting a company to encrypt your information and uploading to their site, where they probably use hard drives setup on a RAID 5 to prevent data loss. If you decided to do the same the files would be with you, under your responsibility to protect and maintain replacements of the hard drives. Because it's RAID 5 you can pull out a faulty Hard drive of the three and insert the new one and the data will be restored.

Sources:
CRS Report for Congress, Data Security Breaches: Context and Incident Summaries, Updated September 28, 2006
http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/crs/RL33199_060928.pdf

The Cost of Lost Data, David M. Smith, Pepperdine University
http://gbr.pepperdine.edu/033/dataloss.html?addcomment=1&savecomment=1&messaged=Your%20comment%20has%20been%20submitted%20for%20processing.&#listcomments

Two site making this claim in order to sell their service:
http://www.barbarabrabec.com/Computertalk/carbonite-online-backup-program.htm Carbonite hosts AVG.

http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Will-You-Survive-a-Computer-Disaster?&id=1893908

Geographical Information Systems at the Recreational and Social side

Geographical Information Systems have brought the outdoorsman to technology. Many forms of recreation are now used with GPS and other mapping devices. From their old days of maps and compass many have gone to the new technology of GPS and thrown away the old. Today, there are recreation activities that have been designed solely around using the GPS. Geocahiong a beefed up version of hind and go seek mixed with treasuring hunting and computers has a large number of participants worldwide. To explain the game: the hider, places their cache in some hidden, no conspicuous location, records the locations' coordinates with their GPS and then logs it into an internet site for crazed geocahers to go find. Beyond the sport of Geocahing , games have been invented for the specific use of the GPS (http://www.utahgeocachers.com/games-local.php).

Wherever you might be, either you yourself or another person nearby is using a GPS device or Map system from their phone. Many people use GPS devices to make driving an easier task. With a mobile application called "Dodgeball" you can see if you have any friends within ten blocks (Levy, 2004). With all this technology changing daily personal life and the business world one could wonder how this came to be that we could have such ease to finding locations though just googling a zip code a store name and seeing exactly where we need to go. This technology was coming to life in the 1960's and it was a great factor in helping decide where to place ski runs in Utah (Levy, 2004).

Without a doubt Geographical Information Systems have changed how the middle class moves from point A to point B throughout their day. Indefinitely the GPS has brought not only valuable information, but as well fun filled recreation times. Now consider to yourself about beginning your very first geo cache. If you don't have a GPS find someone who does and begin your new recreational hobby today. And don't forget the Geographical Information Systems next time you use MapQuest or Google to find directions.

References

Levy, S. (2004). Making the ultimate map. (cover story). Newsweek, 143(23), 56-58. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=13241522&site=ehost-live&scope=site

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Network Discovery will not turn on

In my Server box I am running Windows Server 2008

Error: Network Discovery will not turn on.

Hypothesis: Find the port or the program name for Network Discovery and Netlogon, access it through a search inside of the windows firewall exceptions tab and Netowrk Discovery should turn on,

Research:
Learn how to Add programs into Windows Firewall Exception list.
Go to http://www.clearapps.com/help.html#faqa9

Microsofts lists posts and their application protocal and the service names at http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness/support/articles/ref_net_ports_ms_prod.mspx

After my research I was stilled in a state of confusion, so I turned to a student and he helped me.

These are the steps we took

1. Go to Windows Firewall, click on the advanced tab and click the "Restore Defaults" button.
2. Click on the Exceptions tab and click the boxes for NetLogon and Network Discovery.
   -At this point Network Discovery still was not turning on.
3. I went back and turned on File and Printer Sharing as well.
4. We turned on some more of the services that can be found through going to administrative tools. -This is not very useful because, I don't remeber what we turned on.
5. We were able to turn on Network Discovery, but we were not able to turn on Printer sharing.
6. To fix this problem we unistalled the printer and reinstalled it.
7. Printer sharing was turned on succesfully.

Reflection: this post becomes useless at step four because the reader does not which services to turn on inorder for them to have the same success as author of the blog. I can definatley Imrove my taking of notes when I fix computers, but as for this case I also need those who fix the problem to write down the solution steps as they go.