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Micro-Ram recommends everyone follow the great advice of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and encrypt the disk on every computer you own. Windows users have built in support in Win7 and free options for XP & Vista via TrueCrypt. Apple users, please upgrade to 10.7 Lion and take advantage of the great new full disk encryption included in Lion. This is a simple method of securing your data from lost / stolen computers. It is also ensures a worry-free exchange of drives when your disk wears out or is retired. Modern Intel (Core i3/5/7) processors built after 2009 include hardware based encryption routines using the American Encryption Standard (AES) for a negligible performance impact.

Read More: EFF.ORG

If you have you upgraded to Lion on your Mac and would like to create a DVD restore disc. Visit this web site at Apple.com:

https://support.apple.com/kb/dl1433

The TEKSERVE FAQ is an easy to understand guide for all Apple Mac computer users, published and refined by an independent Apple computer repair company in NY. It answers questions ranging from when your Mac needs service to normal maintenance and every day usage scenarios. This guide is great for switchers (a.k.a. former Windows users) and those just learning a computer for the first time.

Link: TekServe.com

Mail was queued Monday due to a server issue. No email was lost but post receipt processing of mail like spam and virus checking had slowed the delivery for up to 3 hours.

I have looked at ways to eliminate this issue with more redundant/independent servers. The fact remains that there are not any ways to avoid this. The problem is not the servers, the email specification is very robust in the way mail is handled to reach a destination. There are settings for multiple mail servers called MX records and multiple servers handle each MX record. The real problem is that a person has a single final email address and only one mailbox for that email. The email system will get the message there eventually.

Short of having two email addresses on different domains, there really is not a better way to handle this. We can keep jumping to different mail servers, but eventually every mail server will have a glitch as most of them all run the same email server software (i.e. Sendmail, Postfix and Exim).

I don’t want to make light of an issue, but let this remind us that email is not guaranteed to be instant or guarantee delivery with the current state of spam and spam filtering. Remember to always follow-up on important emails, never assume the receiver has read the message without a reply.

I found this to be a neat idea. This site uses a number of databases that have been released by hackers to the public. Note: You will be giving them your email address, but they CLAIM to not store it. There are no passwords on this site and your email address is not supposed to be stored. The purpose is to let you know if you need to start changing your passwords on the websites you use.

https://shouldichangemypassword.com/