The Wedding Data - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 9

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Well they are fine go for them, I mean there is not the compelling reason to use them on Macintosh that there is on Windows. And I have never used the fact that they are by Microsoft as a compelling reason to get rid of a piece of software. Other than the fact that in the case of Internet Explorer, the reason that hackers go after Internet Explorer is mostly because it is the most installed browser the fact that it is made by Microsoft is icing on the cake for them. So go ahead and try you can run them both simultaneously I love Entourage. I love the integration between Entourage*s calendaring and tasking and address book and E-mail. The linking that you can do between them I love that. And you don*t have that capability with some of the other options out there, you can certainly link to get the things in iCal and in mail and you can sync them using iSync but not like its all in one application like it is with Entourage that*s why I like it so much. And the other reason, I reason I like Entourage so much is it was written by the same people who wrote Claris Emailer Jud Spencer and his team who all now work for Microsoft. And they built a lot of the cool things that I love about Claris Emailer and Entourage and that*s the only thing, they got me off of Claris Emailer. So there you go. Of course people are instant messaging me, saying importation is the actual business of importing. Well there you go. 23 minutes before the hour, lets go back to Thomas. We were talking with him about his Macintosh and why the backup strategy should be very, very clean and very, very simple and should be proper as opposed to just you now sort of giving a false sense of security. Up until now you have been backing up what you thought was important, right.

Thomas: Yeah.

David Lawrence: Okay I urge you to stop doing that and to backup everything on a daily basis for the simple reason that when you bomb you can restore much quicker than by reinstalling the software, reinstalling the system software, reinstalling the different apps and so on, going through all the updates and so on. You can reinstall very quickly from a snapshot taken on a day probably the last what you did, if the data was uncorrupt. Very quickly by just restoring the hard drive that*s the whole point of backup software. Anybody can backup data but Retrospect is extremely good at restoring that data and so by not doing it where you are getting everything off the hard drive you can*t restore and you can restore just the data that you grabbed but the true power is being able to restore back to a new hard drive within a couple of hours and start right where you left off.

Thomas: Now maybe my Windows experiences has fainted me, but one of the things that I like to have a backup for is say when XP came out I didn*t upgrade for Windows 2000 XP. I wiped the hard drive and install the XP fresh but then obviously to get my data file back I wouldn*t want to do a forward store from a Windows 2000 set.

David Lawrence: No no, once you are done with that set then you save that backup set somewhere else. Then you started a new set of backups for your Windows XP install.

Thomas: Okay.

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