I have never realised that, I as a design student, are fully dependant on technology! At the end of last year I bought a new Notebook, installed all the basics, anti Virus and all, and was soooooo damn proud of my new Notebook! I love working on it! Until this weekend- Saturday (09:15AM) to be exact!
You see what happened was that I work on it everyday, and as it was Friday, I got some info from a lecturer, save it on a USB. A friend wanted a Presentation so I used the same USB and copied the presentation and gave the USB to her- and so she passed it on to 2 of my other friends. I got it back and got more info from another lecturer. (And it was Friday afternoon- I'm seriously not gonna do homework on Friday that's for sure!) So as Saturday morning came up- and I finally wanted to start working my whole computer froze! I lost EVERYTHING on the USB and most of the files on my laptop! JUST MY LUCK!
And that made me think. How many of us actually do take precautions for when you do end up formatting everything?
I asked some of my friends how many times a week they actually scan their computers and the results were:
46% said: "The computer scans itself- so I never scan it"
7% said: "Once a week"
15% said: "Twice a week"
7% said:"Everyday"
24% said: "I don't have an anti-virus at the moment"
So I went and did some research on how to keep your notebook safe, or relatively safe.
I know some of these tips are really common sense- but just read it anyway:
1. Get a SUPER anti-Virus
2. Don't open weird, or unknown emails
3. Avoid downloading programs from unfamiliar sites
4. Don't keep valuable info(mostly work) on your laptop
5. Make sure you firewall is turned on
6. And ALWAYS make back-ups
Take a tip from me- don't assume a USB is stable- especially when it comes to projects and work.
Rather make a back-up and do not regret it when like me, you get stuck on a Saturday and can't work!
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Cool blog!
ReplyDeleteJip, no one thinks of this, until it happens!
Thanks for the reminder!
Hope you got your stuff back!
Katinka
Hi my Girl,
ReplyDeleteNice work and very relevant. I had a similar incident last week. We allways keep a hard paper copy back-up of invoices, payments and so on in the office. Last week these were required in Maputo by the auditors. The quickest way was to send these files in a box with a courier. Regardless of all their scanning and tracing capabilities these files are now missing...all our original documents..
The short of this all is that you need to make sure that you have back-up,do it on a regular basis, in the end the bit of extra time it takes outweighs the inconvieniance in the end..
Regards
Dad