I just stumbled across this service, www.shopusa.com, it offers a US address to where you can order your goods in the US – from here they will be shipped to you in Europe (or where you live) completely legal with tax, vat and everything.
Sounds interesting, I have for a long time wanted to buy stuff from “Think Geek” however they offer only one shipment method and it is ridiculously expensive for Europe.
Danes, read this; http://pleasure.dk/shopping/artikel/159811/
On a Windows Vista (and likely Win7) box the Windows Updates has gotten this nasty idea to automatically reboot your computer – if for some odd reason it feel like it, now where this may be useful in some sceneries I have had important video conversions disrupted by this exact behaviour.
If you happen to be looking at your pc while the update is in progress you will see a warning, stating that the computer will reboot in 10 min and you can then choose to delay this up to 4 hours, but if you have set a large conversion of video files in motion – then you are likely watching a good movie instead and will come back to a computer laughing at you via its loginscreen.
Anyhow, it’s a simple thing to fix once and for all, you just have to do a bit of registry tweaking;
Create this key;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers=1
And Windows will behave after a reboot (that mean no more unscheduled reboots caused by Windows Updates)..
I have before talked about Online backup, and now a new player has entered the arena https://www.carbonite.com. Well new and new, it would appear to have existed for some time, but I just recently heard about it. Pricing is very similar to Idrive.
I have not tested this service yet, but a quick comparison to the previous favorite (www.idrive.com) lists these pros and cons;
Pros; Unlimited backup (not like Idrive where unlimited equals a fair use limit of 150GB, I never understood this)
Cons;
Data can be decrypted by the hosting company. This WILL require a subpoena, but never the less data CAN be decrypted, in the case of www.Idrive.com you can set your own encryption key for TOTAL privacy – for most this is not an issue, but if you are concerned about privacy this may be a dealbreaker, furthermore there is the issue of national law – what is legal to store in Denmark (where I live) may not be legal in the USA and vice versa eg. copyrighted music – having total privacy does tend to keep my mind at ease about such matters.
Conclusion;
It is interesting, but for now I think I’ll stay at www.idrive.com mainly because of the privacy issue, and besides I have already uploaded about 110 gb data *sigh* the thought of restarting the process can kill any initiative 😉
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ShopUSA – interesting
WebWindows Vista – stop unscheduled reboots
OSIf you happen to be looking at your pc while the update is in progress you will see a warning, stating that the computer will reboot in 10 min and you can then choose to delay this up to 4 hours, but if you have set a large conversion of video files in motion – then you are likely watching a good movie instead and will come back to a computer laughing at you via its loginscreen.
Anyhow, it’s a simple thing to fix once and for all, you just have to do a bit of registry tweaking;
Create this key;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU
NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers=1
And Windows will behave after a reboot (that mean no more unscheduled reboots caused by Windows Updates)..
If you are lazy, then this blog offers a small utility to modify the registry for you 🙂
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/prevent-windows-update-from-forcibly-rebooting-your-computer/
Problem solved…
Online backup – yet another player
BackupI have not tested this service yet, but a quick comparison to the previous favorite (www.idrive.com) lists these pros and cons;
Pros;
Unlimited backup (not like Idrive where unlimited equals a fair use limit of 150GB, I never understood this)
Cons;
Data can be decrypted by the hosting company. This WILL require a subpoena, but never the less data CAN be decrypted, in the case of www.Idrive.com you can set your own encryption key for TOTAL privacy – for most this is not an issue, but if you are concerned about privacy this may be a dealbreaker, furthermore there is the issue of national law – what is legal to store in Denmark (where I live) may not be legal in the USA and vice versa eg. copyrighted music – having total privacy does tend to keep my mind at ease about such matters.
Conclusion;
It is interesting, but for now I think I’ll stay at www.idrive.com mainly because of the privacy issue, and besides I have already uploaded about 110 gb data *sigh* the thought of restarting the process can kill any initiative 😉