I splurged ($30) on Acronis True Image for my Win2k system, backing up the internal 8GB HDD to an external 40GB drive over USB2. I do automated weekly full backups and nightly "incremental" backups (supposedly, TI will only back up the things that have changed since last backup when doing an incremental backup). It…

@Dirk: exactly

If there were no useless posts, there would be no useless comments. At least one would hope. Was this really worth the time to post? This is worse than the "add cold sauce to hot spaghetti to get warm meal" post from last week.

Things must really be slow at LifeHacker Central if we need to post on something as elementary as "if you mix something hot with something cold, you get something warm".

More and more shops are disabling Active Desktop for security reasons. This would be unusable in those shops.

Ditto. I've never been asked about a BB cert on my resume nor have I ever seen a BB cert on any resume that I've come across.

I, too, shelled out some cash for backup software (Acronis True Image, about $30). I set up daily and weekly backups. The daily ones are "incremental" in that they only back up what changed since the last incremental backup. The weekly one is a full backup. For reaons unknown to me, the backups only run about one…

This is akin to the problem of how do you tell someone that they have bad breath. I generally feel that people are responsible for the things that come out of their own mouths. If your colleague doesn't mind sounding uneducated due to his poor grammar, that's his prerogative. The only person he could hurt is…

I've been using the Sage Firefox extension to good effect. It allows you to automatically subscribe to any RSS/atom feeds on the current page, and makes them available to you via a Bookmarks folder or a toggleable left pane.