Turns out it is a neighbor down a few units. They supposedly went to Iran tonight and and in-law brought the car back and parked behind my Corolla, instead of theirs. They have the same spots, just a row over. I still need my Corolla.. Sigh.

Can't sleep. And I have to catch a flight tomorrow that departs at 630 AM and go straight to work. This sucks. Just about as much when somebody parks in your spot...

Morning Y'all

Morning, Rick. Have a good Monday... :)

Night Dave, have a good sleep. :)

Morning, girls!

Howdy Doc. Hows the hangover?

Cheers, Rick! Just fine today thanks!

Good morning folks.

Why don't they make trash pick up so you can hear it coming instead of going?

That woud ruin their fun!

I hate how early they come. Everyone in my neighborhood puts it out the night before. This morning they had picked it up by 6:10 AM. That does make it easy to put the trash bins away when I go out to get my newspaper. :cool:

Sometimes I forget until I hear them having just gone by.

When it comes to backup I am beyond a belt & suspenders guy. The main backup is done with Acroness. It will make me a CD that is bootable and I can put in a new hard drive and restore my files from a DVD, or external drive, or the other place that will hold the one big files it makes of my current system. I have had to test and it worked perfect. Second that same program does a continious backup to my external drive so I can decide I hate some new program and roll my system to the way it was before I installed the program. That works way better than the windows restore feature built into windows.

Third, I run Norton 360 as my anti-virus. It is a bit of a resource hog, but it is very intutive and it does a lot of other things besides bullet proof anti-virus protestion. One of the things it does is allow you 5 gigs of space to backup important files. I excluded the photos and music and I have it back up my Quicken & Quickbook files so even if my house burns down those are backed up.

Then just to be sure ;) I have a thumb drive that has a backup program and it will back up those same important files. I tend to do that about once a week. At the same time I use an app on my iPhone called Air-Sharing. It will let me copy a file to or from my computer right to a folder on my phone. Since I have a 32 gig iPhone I can backup a lot of important photos and those same finanical documents to my phone in a protected folder. I just make a ZIP file on my computer of the stuff I want to backup and copy that one zip file.

I learned a long time ago never trust just one method of backup.

Oh and on top of all of that or maybe as a base line of defense my boot drive is running as a mirror. If one drive fails all the data is on the other drive, so just swap in a new drive and I am golden.

See what I mean, way past belt & suspenders to hold up my pants or data ;)

From the 10 commandments in the Macintosh Bible written in the late 80's.

1. Easy is hard.

2. One, two, three many backups.

My very first computer was a Vic 20. It had a cassette tape drive to load programs. It took 5 or 10 minutes to load a 4K program. Then I moved way up to a Commodore 64 with a floppy drive. The floppy drive came with one floppy. I knew I would need a second floppy to back up my programs. Yep, I bought only two 360K floppies. One for the data & one for all of my backups. Back then a floppy was expensive.

When I moved up to my super fast 4.77 Mhz IBM PC with 256K and a dual floppy drives and DOS 2.1 it did not take me long to decide to buy my first massive hard drive. It was 10 MB and was several hundred bucks. The geek in my discovered I could re-format the drive with RLL compression and make it into a 32 MB drive. I hit the BBS systems and discovered Fido-net. I was downloading programs and 300 baud and soon I had a lot of good stuff. I decided I needed a backup so I found a backup program and started slugging in 360K floppies. It took a big stack of floppies.

It still amazes me to know that my iPhone has 1,000 more space than that my first compressed hard drive. And my iPhone cost less!

And now for something totally different:

The folks that live across the street are friends and we have seen their daughter go from a awkward 13 year old to a fresh college graduate. She went to college on a full ride scholarship for volleyball. She is 6.2 and obviously very athletic. She has snagged a new boyfriend and is now engaged. The future SIL came down to with her for father's day. He was making brownie points Saturday morning when he got up and mowed the yard (without his shirt.) I told my wife she needed to check out the guy. He looked like a clone of me.

He is 6.4 and looks like a guy pitching a home workout equipment. His 6 pack was on display and he pecks looks like he spends a lot of time working out. We was not a huge steroid blob of muscle but in very good shape. I remember my neighbor telling me the kid is a very nice guy. He must be a real dummy & party animal however, he is on the Dean's list and graduating with honors.

Heck I am a honorary Doctor of Porschology. I have the certificate on my wall at the office. I attended the PCA technical academy and attended all 6 one hour courses at Parade in Hershey PA and I am a Honorary Doctor. I am not on any dean's list. I presume it is like the move Animal House, he must be in big trouble. ;) Maybe double secret probation!

acronis, check. i am looking at their web page, right now.

still no takers on my linux package installation question?

By the way, overnight while Le Mans was going on this cactus decided to bloom. It only lasted one night. They flower at night to prevent loosing valuable moisture during the heat of a desert day. They are pollinated by moths and bats mostly. This one is inside so it does not get pollinated at all.

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Cactus Night Flower 16June2012_ 014 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr
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Cactus Night Flower 16June2012_ 012 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr
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Cactus Night Flower 16June2012_ 011 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr
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Cactus Night Flower 16June2012_ 010 by Max_911S_fahrer, on Flickr

It was about 5 inches in diameter.

At work fly by.

Nice pic, Max.