Maybe you just get it… but I didn’t. Maybe I just forgot along the way. Before you read any other self-help book, read all 176 short pages of Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard, and then read it again. I find myself going back to my notes again and again to remind myself of what it is to be on the road of mastery in anything I want to do. It always helps when I think of straying off my plan to get better at something. Buy Mastery on Amazon.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
This post is a record of what I’ve learned and done to make the built-in backup utility in Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 as useful as possible.
Often my clients, as well as most home users have operating systems like Windows 2000/2003 Server (or Windows XP for home users) installed and end up using a 3rd party application to backup their data. For servers, this can get expensive quickly, and often my clients don’t understand why they have to pay as much money (or more) for backups then they did for the server(s) it’s backing up (expensive software combined with expensive tape systems). With home users, or business workstations, they are very rarely backed up because of the complexity that they perceive it to be. Often, I believe the built-in backup utility of modern Windows could do the job just fine for small businesses and home, but many don’t know how to work with it, and deal with its limitations (and Microsoft doesn’t have a good wizard to walk you though the more advanced scenarios).
Continue reading ‘Utilizing the Built-in Windows Backup (ntbackup.exe) For Windows’
Just upgraded from Wordpress 2.2.x to 2.3.1 and found a few plugin issues.
- Needed to upgrade Google XML Sitemaps. I just deactivated the old and uploaded/activated the new.
- The new plugin upgrade feature in WordPress told me to upgrade my WordPress Database Backup, which wasn’t activated, so I just overwrote the file.
- My K2 theme is so advanced it had it’s own Widget manager before WordPress did. Once WP added the feature, you needed a K2 plugin to disable the WP widget manager (because K2’s is still better). Now, the K2 theme disables the WP one on it’s own without the Plugin. So, I’m removing this plugin and updating my K2 next.