News tagged with backup
Solar power generation around the clock
Nov 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Californian company, SolarReserve, is developing a solar power system that can store seven hours' worth of solar energy by focusing mirrors onto millions of gallons of molten salt, allowing ...
Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's ...
Cassini Swaps Thrusters
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Early this morning the Cassini spacecraft relayed information that it had successfully swapped to a backup set of propulsion thrusters late Wednesday.
Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6.
Clickfree USB Cable Transformer Availabe Now
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Now you can transform any external USB HDD to a true backup device without the use of any software at all. Just connect a USB HDD to your PC via the Clickfree Cable Transformer and your external ...
USB stick makes easy automatic backups to discs
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 27, 2009 |
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There's really no excuse for not backing up your computer these days. Used to be that making a backup was a fairly complex task. But today's backup offerings make it pretty much a no-brainer. In the recent months, I've written ...
Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.
Neural stem cell differentiation factor discovered
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Neural stem cells represent the cellular backup of our brain. These cells are capable of self-renewal to form new stem cells or differentiate into neurons, astrocytes or oligodendrocytes. Astrocytes have supportive functions ...
There's no perfect way to back up your hard drive
Oct 07, 2009 |
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If there's one thing to keep in mind about computers, it's this: Hard drives fail. I relearned that lesson recently when one of my laptop's external hard drives stopped working and then my 4-year-old iPod died.
Judge rules against RealNetworks DVD copy software
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A federal judge has barred RealNetworks Inc. from selling a device that allows consumers to copy DVDs to their computer hard drives, pending a full trial.
Gadgets: Back everything up with a single touch
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 13, 2009 |
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SanDisk Corp. has added the SanDisk Ultra Backup USB 2.0 portable flash drive to its long line of USB flash drives. This is the first to feature a solution to back up home or office data with the touch of ...
NetApp to buy Data Domain in $1.5 billion deal
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Data storage company NetApp Inc. said Wednesday it agreed to buy data backup and disaster recovery systems provider Data Domain Inc. for $25 per share in cash and stock, or about $1.5 billion.
