I find the different types of people in this world of ours entirely fascinating.

When I was younger, there was a popular TV series called “Watching” and the basic storyline revolved around a shy boy and his brash on / off girlfriend. A major theme was people watching and it clarified something I have always enjoyed doing. That of trying to categorise folks just by observing them.

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In data recovery 101 I made the statement “Don’t Panic” when referring to data recovery.

Tonight I had the opportunity to get my son to put that into practice. For those unaware, my eldest is at University studying for a Comp Sci degree and it leaves me with a warm feeling that he asked me first rather than his CS mates or professors.

But I digress.

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This is the second post in what I see as being a long running series on Windows 7 tips and hints and ones that I hope prove useful to you or your users.

• One of the beauties of XP was that you could do a “clean install” using upgrade media. This wasn’t meant as a means to cirumvent paying full price but to deal with the need to occasionally wipe clean and do a fresh install of XP. Well now that facility is also available for Windows 7. However, rather than repeat the article I’ll simply point you at Paul Thurrot’s fabulous site. (more…)

I wanted to flag this up for myself more than anythig.

However – pop on over to Enterprise Networking Planet for a great article on securing your network – quickly. Some of these I’ve already talked about before (see link), whilst others even I had forgotten.

Anyway, enjoy.

There is an incredible amount of free software on the internet and unfortunately a fair bit of it is likely to cause more problems than they purport to fix. So I was thinking what I could write about when up popped my weekly reminder to run a particular scan … and so here I present my top 5 free security tools.

I present them in no particular order but hope they prove useful.

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