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Welcome to Networks Plus October Newsletter

Welcome to the fourth edition. At the request of several of our clients, we recently subscribed all of our email hosting clients to this monthly newsletter. Many of you felt that these newsletters will provide a valuable service to your employees, so if you are getting this for the first time and wondering why... you may have your boss to thank, so listen up !!! :) If you wish to opt out, you can do so at the bottom of this letter, but remember there will be a quiz later.
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Daylight Savings and Your PC
Advice from Jerry Caruso

      Fall has arrived and that means Daylight Savings Time will soon end. As most of you are aware, the calendar for this change was adjusted in 2007 to stretch DST an extra week or two. However, nobody advised the PCs until a patch was produced to correct the Windows operating systems. This patch should have been applied in March 2007. We still occasionally find a few stragglers who did not get the news. So if your PC " Falls backward" prematurely, do not panic- the world is not coming to an end! Here is how to correct it:

     You do NOT want to force the clock forward an hour to correct the time. Why? Because many PCs get their time information from a higher authority like a domain controller. If you don't believe me, try to change your clock and wait a few minutes (or reboot your computer). If you are in a domain environment, your PC will revert back to the previous time!!
     To manually correct premature DST, simply double-click your clock and change the time zone to "Atlantic Time." Your clock will now change to the correct time. Just remember to change it back on the correct date, which is November 8, 2008 this year. For more info on DST go here for some fascinating information on (yawn) clocks:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/daylight_time.php

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Networks Plus will be hosting a booth at the 93rd Annual League of Municipalities Conference at the Atlantic City Convention Center, November 17-20th, 2008. Come see us at Booth number 2038.

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Fast and Easy Backups
Advice from Greg Mullen

     We have all heard the lectures about how important backups are. Hopefully, not many of us have learned this lesson firsthand. Getting adequate backups is only half the battle- what good are backups if you can't get to the data when you need to? If you are using a tape-based backup system, you may find it difficult and time consuming to access your data when disaster strikes. When using a tape system, you not only need software to perform your backups, you also need the same software to retrieve them. This may seem rather trivial, but what happens a few years down the road when the software CD can no longer be found and you need to recover data from a tape? This is just one of the many complications tape-based backup systems present when attempting to recover data.

     Luckily, there are alternatives to tape systems. Many systems, like Dell's RD100 and Iomega's REV system, are hard drive based. The advantages of hard drive based systems quickly become apparent when attempting to recover from a disaster. A hard drive based system can easily be attached to any PC to provide a working backup within minutes. This sure beats the hours and potentially days that tape systems can take.

     Hard drive based systems also require no specialized software to access. In fact, they support "drop and drag" capability in a similar fashion to the USB flash drives we are all familiar with. This "drag and drop" ability not only makes backups easier, more user friendly, and faster (often only minutes), but data recovery also becomes extremely easy and fast, and you will never need to track down any lost CDs.

     If your current backup system is causing you headaches and confusion, get in touch with your friends at Networks Plus to discuss hard drive based backups for your company or home.

Mind Teaser

Don't let your brain freeze up while you are sitting in front of the computer! See if you can solve this mind teaser. Look for the answer in November's Newsletter from Networks Plus.

Q: After teaching his class all about Roman numerals (X = 10, IX=9 and so on) the teacher asked his class to draw a single continuous line and turn IX into 6.

The only stipulation the teacher made was that the pen could not be lifted from the paper until the line was complete. How could the students do this?

The answer to last month's mind teaser is : the letter "m"