Stuff I’ve Learned
Read: The hard way…
- If you have a Linux box, install it alltm. Yes, when you do the install, just install EVERYTHING. Trust me on this. Your life will be so much easier. Otherwise you’ll be trying to satisfy dependencies till the cows come home. Just spend a little time locking it down afterwards.
- Never, EVER, enter your main email address into online forms. Use a throw-away hotmail/gmail/yahoomail address. More times that not you get added onto a mailing list that then gets sold to other companies to send yet more spam. And really, when’s the last time you ever read a website’s terms of use or privacy policy?
- For God’s sake run a virus-scanner and a firewall. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
- Back it up! Then backup your backups. Backup often, and keep at least one backup off-site in case of fire or theft. If you can’t remember to backup, subscribe to a service that does it for you automatically, such as any Connected.com reseller.
- Don’t buy the cheap stuff, but don’t buy top-of-the line either. Buy last-year’s model when they blow it out cheap
Sure, you know all this. Just one guy’s suggestions to make your life a whole lot easier and maybe save you some sleepless nights wondering how you’ll ever get your vacation pictures back when your hard drive crashes…