Volume 26, No. 12 December2008

Utahrsquos Award Winning Computer Magazine

wwwucsorgThis Monthrsquos MeetingWednesday 10th at 7 pm

Volume 26 No 12 December2008

ISSN 1061-5725

This Monthrsquos Presentation

Check Out the Introduction to

Acronis True ImageHome 2009On Page 4

And The Review on Page 8

The Analog

to Digital TV Transition

amp Open Access

(Get your computer questions answered)

Page 2 Blue Chips Magazine mdash December 2008

trade

RecentTrends

By Cliff Millward Editorcliffmxmissioncom

Finegrave

She Used to Have an Hourglass figureBut the Sands Have Shifted ()

According to Scientists (at the University of Utah no less) the best female figure is not an hourglass

A less than perfect body might be bet-ter because they may be better adapted to economics and bread winning The ldquomovie star worshipersrdquo prefer the hour-glass shape but the ldquoMarilyn Monroerdquo shape is becoming less popular on the whole

Hormones are to blame for a wom-anrsquos shape The hormones that make women stronger and more emotionally stable tend to produce fat around the midsection

Men however seem to prefer an hourglass when looking for a companion Women with an hourglass figure seem to be usually more healthy and fertile

Computer geeks donrsquot care what their computers look like They love them

even if they are dumpy looking (They look even better if they have a piece of half-eaten pizza close by)

Perhaps the doll to the left is the perfect shape for

computer geeks -- even to the dress shoes and ribbon in the hair -- but

no pizza

Signs of the Times

The economic downturn is slowly creeping into everyonersquos life but some of it is not caused by govern-ment ATampT plans to lay off 12000 people soon Their revenue has been declining because people are dropping

landlines Cell phones are much more convenient and ldquolandlinerdquo phones can be part of anyonersquos broadband connection

ATampT stock is falling and the once good stock is becoming suspect (along with every other stock I might add)

I believe however that they will weather this storm as it expands its high-speed Internet and video platform

A bright spot is the Apple iPhone which is growing rapidly ATampT has cornered the market of the iPhone in the U S

Linux Meets the Red Dragon

Authorities in the Nanchang China are forcing the cityrsquos Internet cafes to replace Windows with Red Flag Linux However this change has a high price tag for the cafe owners and some of them are saying they will have to close their doors

Red Flag is a Chinese made Linux system (I wonder if it is an off shoot of Red Hat Linux)

Authorities say it is an effort to stop piracy (yea right) Politicians love taxes but when they want to disguise a ldquotaxrdquo they invent fees or some kind of ruse to obtain the capitol -- thus a charge for ldquolicensingrdquo the system

One wonders however whether some extra code will be embedded for spying purposes and I thought Linux was a ldquofreerdquo system

MerryChristmas


Blue Chips Magazine

Magazine Staff

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Douglas J N Taylor


Lead in to Acronis True Image Home 2009 ReviewBy Don Nendell

Caveat You can easily skip this section of BCM and go straight to the actual Review itself which follows this Introduction on Page 8 if it suits you and you probably wonrsquot miss a thing believe me But before we get there letrsquos strain the brain with some logical thinkingactionfood for thought if not to excess at least to make the gray

cells aware that they have been busy For me personally itrsquos my year-end chest-beating (both on and off) head-slapping time - itrsquos really that simple folks

HO HO HO Tisrsquo the Season to be Jolly

Some Background Information is Definitely in Order Here

Disclaimer The actual Review itself when we finally do get to it will be a ldquofirstrdquo for me in that I have al-ways dealt with each companyrsquos Media representatives solely and directly and never before have I dealt directly with a companyrsquos independently contracted Sales representative(s) let alone personal friends like Gene and Linda Barlow are I walk a fine line here folks On the one hand rests my friendship and cherished personal acquaintances and on the other a com-mercial entityrsquos product to Review Look out Reef ahead

Please understand that I have re-ceived and likewise been handed my Review product unhesitatingly unabashedly and proudly from Lindarsquos hands personally pure and simple Doesnrsquot sound like a large distinction I know but I assure you there definitely is in this case Unless I miss my guess this product comes out of their pocket not Acronisrsquo

You see Irsquove known Gene and Linda professionally and personally for almost 20 years now and they are very special dear friends to me and thousands more

just like me absolutely Therefore I can do them and mean them no harm what-so-ever however Reviews can and sometimes do actually turn out that way in reality Then too that personal relationship may not ultimately seem to be in the readerrsquos best interest simply because of that seeming partialityfavor-itism that I might inadvertently display toward them in the Review itself

Gene has been a guest speaker in the user group community for over 25 years He has presented to the Utah Computer Soci ety (Blue Chips) on various topics many times in the past starting back in 1996 when Gene and his family lived in Lindon UT Gene and his wife Linda now live in beautiful southern Utah St George just 40 min ute away from Zionrsquos National Park

My Testimony I truly believe in Gene and Linda and the fine products they represent and that they have been selling from their own office for 25+ years now I wouldnrsquot be doing this Review if it were otherwise in any case They couldnrsquot possibly stay in business if they didnrsquot have those great prod-ucts it stands to reason They also wouldnrsquot have so very many friends throughout the Association of Personal Computer User Groups1 (APCUG) all over this great nation if they didnrsquot have those great prod-ucts to sell it goes without saying They would never lower themselves to sell them if they werenrsquot so good strong and effective again it goes without saying

ldquoObservation describes the act of taking notice fixing the mind upon beholding with attention and as used in science includes the idea of making and recording onersquos findings a skill certainly applicable to fruitful inductive studyrdquo to borrow one of Yogi Berrarsquos more astute quotes

I hereby promise that I will do my level and honest best for them and Acronis as well as you the reader to the very best of my ability


Omar Khayyam wrote ldquoThere was a door to which I found no key There was the veil through which I might not seerdquo

PrologBe that as it may (BTAIM) letrsquos

face facts here folks Irsquove had so many PC problems in my struggle with PCrsquos that itrsquos like Irsquove become virtually men-tally deficient when it comes to my abilities that concern ldquoBacking up my Stuffrdquo ldquoPartitioning my HDrsquosrdquo ldquoCreat-ing Smooth Operating Fast-running PCrsquosrdquo ldquoGetting my E-mails off my ISPrsquos Serverrdquo ldquoNetworking all my (old) 9-14 PCrsquosrdquo ldquoAnti-virusesSpywareet al Protectionrdquo and ldquoVirtually all types of Utility Appsrdquo Which I guess all told about covers the PC spectrum (See also HIAWP below)

ldquoA man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything A choice is all that is leftrdquo - Harry Mathews

I just seem to ldquohit the wallrdquo ldquoget a mental blockrdquo and generally shake like a leaf with all these problems I come up with concerning PCrsquos Donna calls it a ldquoBrain Fartrdquo I call it ldquototal frustration of the first magnituderdquo Irsquom like the little engine that could ldquoI think I can I think I can Irsquoll keep trying until I canrdquo

I k n o w I k n o w Y o d a therersquos that word ldquoTRYrdquo again OK Irsquoll keep ldquoDoingrdquo it until I get it right I guess I think (ldquoTherefore I amrdquo) thatrsquos a very big reason why I write

all these Reviews I simply have to con-quer my ldquofearsrdquo and ldquoshortcomingsrdquo in all these Utility areas Irsquoll just have to face the facts and get on with it

There my pep talk has made me feel much better about the situation and the ldquoStressrdquo vitamins are a big help thatrsquos for sure

ldquoAs in all competitive events therersquos no penalty for losing only a reward for winning And failing to win in one event does not mean that we forfeit rewards legitimately won in others But we have to win fair and square (2 Tim 25) and more than anything else our attitude has to be rightrdquo - ltgracethrufaithcom

selahspiritual-lifehow-to-win-your-crownsgt

It also is comforting to know that ldquoWithout a just fight there is no victoryrdquo Timothy 25

Happiness is a Working PCFirst off let me state unequivocally

that ldquoI am not a Backup Gururdquo Nay far from it If I were such a person I wouldnrsquot have been able to bemoan my hard-earned byline ldquoHappiness is a Working PC (HIAWP)rdquo now would I After all being able to resurrect a dead or ldquosickrdquo PC is what backing up your stuff is all about isnrsquot it

Oh Irsquove done ldquoitrdquo but primarily be-cause of my ldquoTrepidationsrdquo and mostly on the occasion of writing a Review on a given product (See also my Septem-ber 2008 BCM Review of Backup Now 52 (BUN5) and my August 2007 Review2 of Maxtor OneTouch III (MAX III) that I did backups but certainly not religiously Until now that is Now Irsquom finally a real believer

Psst Shouldrsquoa Wouldrsquoa Couldrsquoa No excuse sir -

And Herersquos WhyAt the latest Utah Blue Chips (UBC)

Monthly general meeting (on November 12th) Gene Barlow presented one of his favorite topics ldquoBacking up Your Hard Driverdquo to the members as per usual very thoroughly clearly simply effectively and convincingly But then you already knew that if you were pres-ent If not you really missed a topic that is very important to all of us It may even be critical if yoursquore like me

Update Acronis just announced a significant new release of their top rated Backup utility Acronis True Image Home 2009 Backup soft-ware (ATIH2009) To read Genersquos newsletter in full about the dozens of important new features in this prod-

uct you can go straight to ltwwwugrcomnl1008htmlgt or just stay tuned

Gene strongly advised us to ldquoMake sure you are adequately protected and can recover from any unforeseen events such as viruses unstable software downloads and hard drive failures by having a well thought-out backup plan Having a good backup system is essential in order to put your system back together again in a few minutes not days or weeksrdquo To repeat Genersquos admonition ldquoThis is an important topic that every PC User should implement immediately on their computerrdquo

Gene did such a convincing job and I was so moved by his presentation that I instantly decided to do this Review on the ATIH2009 product Yes I know Gene ldquoitrsquos easyrdquo (See also below)

Be advised however This spur-of-the-moment action on my part came in spite of the fact that virtually nothing in the completely feared family of Utilities has ever really worked for me the first time as adver-tised (HIAWP)

BTW This of course includes some that I had previously purchased from Gene during each of his many previ-ous UBC group meetings (supported as always by his lovely wife Linda) ergo and most certainly due in no way to Gene and Lindarsquos fabulous efforts plus the great products they represent even they became a very small addendum to my ongoing continuous battle with my personal monster PC(lsquos) and thusly became a piece of my ldquoHIAWPrdquo shtick

Note Stories on request But please be forewarned I have never been asked to ldquogive a little speechrdquo Irsquove always been told to ldquogive a little speechrdquo

As I alluded to above therersquos a lot more than just clicking on a couple of but-tons and letting the PC take care of all the prob-lems for me Hey maybe Irsquom just a ldquoWorry Wartrdquo ldquoa Real-istrdquo ldquoa Joe Btf-splk3rdquo Who knows


But I do know this however Irsquove written an awful lot about my very real problems in working to help others so they wonrsquot have to duplicate any of my afflic-tions GOD help them if they do Amen

ldquoEase of Userdquo Ha HaA trip down memory lane This

ldquoEase of Userdquo line of presentation brings to mind a true story that hap-pened when I was an Aviation Cadet (AC) in training to become a USAF Pi-lot and while I was stationed at Marana AB just north of Tucson Arizona 1st Lieutenant Jim Lowe a ldquorecentrdquo Korean War Jet Ace [who later became a POW in Vietnam] flew in one bright day just to inspire (incite really) us cadets ldquoOn to Gloryrdquo Low briefed us that it was all ldquoso simplerdquo that he could actually ldquopick his noserdquo while starting his shiny new T-33 jet And let me tell you he accomplished both with flair and vigor that is he inspired us and indeed picked his nose while starting his jet

Note Lowrsquos personally signed 5x8 index card was on sale on eBay at the time of this writing (See his card graphic also James Salterrsquos 1956 novel4 and sub-sequent 1958 Movie The Hunters)

Strange as it may seem Coin-cidently my AC roommate at Marana AB during this same period of time was BG Kenneth R Milam Jr USAF (Ret) ldquoRoomierdquo was not only standing beside me during the ldquonose pickingrdquo episode of 1st Lt Low but amazingly enough also flew as a stunt pilot in the 1958 movie The Hunters as well as in the 1967 movie ldquoTora Tora Torardquo I shall miss you Roomie RIP

Note It was about three (3) years later - unfortunately I missed getting into the Korean War but as a B-26 combat-ready pilot by a scant two (2) weeks - when I got to fly my first jet a T-33 that I learned first-hand that it wasnrsquot all Jim said it was even though in truth flying came pretty naturally for me personally Proud to say I was the second man to solo in my class beaten out only by another Cadet who had a previous 400 hours of flying time to his credit Truth be known the way my lifersquos been played out flying ndash even in the wrong kind of aircraft - is probably the only real ldquotrue skill-thingrdquo that I actually have had5 Just kidding -

ldquoChildhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man youth neverrdquo ndash Anna Jameson

Ever Onward We GoYou know that really smooth way

ldquoevery salesmanrdquo sells something to unsuspecting customers is punctu-ated throughout with ldquoEase of Userdquo (sometimes ldquomis-rdquo) representation They all make it seem ldquoso easyrdquo that ldquoEven a caveman could do itrdquo (See graphic)

OK Irsquoll ldquoTRYrdquo it once again but just for you Gene since yoursquore such a nice guy But remember Mark Twain said ldquoFiction is obliged to stick to possibili-ties Truth isnrsquotrdquo

PostludeOne final note Gene canrsquot be

everything to everybody hersquos stretched out all over the place as it is But and this is a big BUT you know what We can move business his way because of the quality of service he gives his cus-tomers after the sale is consummated And although Gene is not technically a Tech Support representative of Acronis - through the sales of their products (See his web site at ltwwwugrcomgt) he has been helping Computer User Groups for over 25+ years now He shares with us that Blue Chips has always been close to his heart and he has supported us ldquoLock Stock and Barrelrdquo since 1996 He continues helping in many other ways also like his 1 Support for the products yoursquove purchased from him and after yoursquove a) Researched all the available information b) Submitted your question to the application experts and then c) ldquoAsking Barlowrdquo for assistance via e-mail message to ltsup-


portugrcomgt 2 Tutorials (Backup Vista Computer Security) 3 Technical Papers 4 Frequently Asked Questions and 5 Presentations (Most likely via webinars now-a-days - itrsquos the economy you know)

Herersquos a portion of the flyer Gene left with us at the meeting (See graphic) Visit Genersquos web site to purchase many other very useful Utilities yoursquoll be mighty glad you did BTW Tell him ldquoDon sent merdquo He just might favor you with a good ldquoUser Group Dealrdquo if you do Who knows Hersquos like that you know

We thank you Gene and Linda for everything yoursquove done for us and we will continue to support you faithfully for years to come

Oh And FinallyI admit Irsquove stretched the point a tad

a couple of times this year in labeling a Review ldquoSecurity-Relatedrdquo or not However I feel it is absolutely neces-sary if Irsquom to be successful in getting my readers to be ldquoSecurity-Mindedrdquo and jar them out of their lethargy and naivety of ldquosuch critical thingsrdquo at least as I see them

But when an application has ldquoPass-word protectionrdquo ldquoEncryptionrdquo ldquoHidden partitionsrdquo and ldquoSecure Deletingrdquo capabilities as does this monthrsquos Review subject Acronis True Image Home 2009 Backup software it clearly falls into the realm of ldquoSecurity-Relatedrdquo at least by my self-regulated-imposed ldquoSecurityrdquo standards anyway

There is enough ldquoStuffrdquo going on out there in cyber space all the time for me to be able to make another Secu-rity News and Views Report and this month is certainly no exception Take ZDNet AnnouncementsMust-Read News - NovemberDecember 2008 headlines for example

Online networks

suffered their heavi-

est brute force attacks

to date this year with

more sites than ever

coming under sustained

assault

Virus hits nearly

75 of systems on Af-

ghanistan military base

Is there no end to

the AutoRun madness

AlertPay hit by a large scale DDoS

attack

Microsoftrsquos Live launches malware

detection service for webmasters

New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw

spotted in the wild

Cybercrime expected to ramp up dur-

ing holiday season

Survey 88 of Mumbairsquos wireless

networks easy to compromise

Under worm attack US Army bans

USB drives Militaryrsquos ban of USB thumb

drives highlights security risks

Cybercriminals release Christmas

themed web malware exploitation kit

Symantec puts value of underground

transactions at $275MPosted

Ho ho ho Credit card fraud not a

holiday killer Unless you get hit

Et al

Get the idea However I must respectfully beg off the most self-appointed welcome task due to added family medical problems of both Donna and I taking precedence BTAIM ldquoNo excuse Sirrdquo

On to our Review of Acronis True Image Home 2009 Backup software Please turn the page

Footnotes1 Blue Chips is a charter member

of APCUG APCUG is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to promoting and supporting computer and software user groups worldwide ltwwwapcugnetgt

2 See the actual ReportsReviews in the Blue Chips Magazine Archives at ltwwwucsorggt Note Always choose the pdf format for its beauty

3 Joe Btfsplk was a character in the satirical comic strip Lirsquol Abner by cartoonist Al Capp (1909ndash1979) Hersquos well-meaning but is the worldrsquos worst jinx bringing disastrous misfortune to everyone around him A small dark rain cloud perpetually hovers over his head to symbolize his bad luck Hapless Btfsplk and his ever-present cloud became one of the most iconic images in Lirsquol Abner - ltenwikipediaorgwikiJoe_Btfsplkgt

4 James Salter author of The Hunt-ers novel Description Written by USAF Korean War fighter pilot James Horowitz pen name James Salter more introspective and less ldquoshoot-em-uprdquo than many war novels made into an outstanding 1958 movie starring Rob-ert Wagner as a character based on Lt James Low a nine-kill ace also starred Robert Mitchum (An excellent Movie Review by Carlton W Austin written in 1999 can be found at ltwwwaerospherecomhtmlthe_huntersshtmltopgt)

5 The Everlasting Crown (Crown of Victory)

ldquoDo you not know that in a race all the runners run but only one gets the prize Run in such a way as to get the prize Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training They do it to get a crown that will not last but we do it to get a crown that will last forever Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly I do not fight like a man beating the air No I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others I myself will not be disqualified for the prize (1 Cor 924-27)rdquo - ltgracethrufaithcomselahspiritual-lifehow-to-win-your-crownsgt


Acronis Image Home 2009Back Up and Restore Made Simple and Secure

Windows Review

Reviewed by Don Nendell

ManufacturerAcronis Inc23 3rd AvenueBurlington MA 01803USAPhone (781) 222-0920Fax (781) 222-0919e-mail infoacroniscomTech SupportBusiness Hours Live Chat and E-mail sup-

port are available 247 Priority (you pay for this service) TS is available upon request

Live Chat (See graphic) with an Acronis Technical Support representative

Connect to a Technical Support Profes-sional today and get a response to your question quickly

Chat service is available 24 hours 7 days a week

Support Professionals can help you with any product sales installation and troubleshoot-ing questions

They can also assist you with any Custom-er Service related questions or issues such as

Not sure what product to choose Have question about specific Acronis

product Difficulties with purchasing Questions about licensing policy Cannot download updates or register the

product(see graphic) Supported hardware (storage media)

The following storage locations are supported Internal and External Hard Disk DrivesNetworked Storage DevicesCD-RRW DVD-RRW DVD+RRW BD-R

(Blu-ray NEW)ZIPreg JAZZreg and other removable mediaPATA (IDE) SATA SCSI SAS (NEW)

IEEE1394 (FireWire) USB 120 drives and PC-Card storage devices

Supported Operating SystemsWindows Vista Windows XP SP2 Windows

XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows 2000 Professional SP4

Minimum system requirementsCPU Pentium-class processor or higherRAM 256 MBDisk space 200 MB Extra space for instal-

lation 30 MBCD-RW drive for bootable media creationSupported File SystemsFAT1632 NTFS Linux Ext2 Ext3 Re-

iserFS and Linux SwapSpecial sector-by-sector support for other

partitions and corrupted file systemsSimple DescriptionAcronis True Image Home 2009 is the

easiest the most convenient and intuitive disk imaging backup and system restore software yoursquove ever seen Its automated wizard-driven operations make backup and restoration simple even for a novice

Where to purchaseFor additional information or to purchase

Acronis True Image Home 2009 (FYI at a potentially good saving - plus there are

also a number of other ldquogreatrdquo Util-ities available as well) go to ltwwwugrcom gt Just tell Gene or Linda ldquoDon Sent yourdquo Hey It just may work Therersquos certainly no harm in ldquoTryingrdquo Who knows

Better still if you belong to a User Group Gene has really slashed the price down to a manageable size for us ldquoCut us some slackrdquo

so to speak Just use the magic code ldquoUG-BlueChipsrdquo and reference this Review And by all means do see also the CBC2 graphics toward the end of the Review -

To Demo Acronis True Image Home 2009 go to

ltwwwacroniscomhomecomputingproductstrueimagegt

About AcronisA global company Acronis whose motto

is ldquoCompute with Confidencerdquo has of-fices in the United States Europe and Asia and sells its products both direct and through enterprise resellers Acronis is a world leader in providing advanced scalable storage manage-ment and disaster recovery software that helps enterprises safeguard their information and assures the availability security integrity and recoverability of their infrastructure Acronisrsquo patented disk imaging and disk management technology has won broad industry acclaim and numerous awards for excellence in data protec-tion backup and recovery system deployment and server migration for both physical and virtual machine servers Its flagship product Acronis True Image is a leading commercial disk-imaging and bare-metal restore solution for Windows and Linux servers as well as being an automated system portability and migration tool Since 2002 Acronis True Image has been the solution of choice for tens of thousands of customers from small and mid-size businesses to the Fortune 500 in the banking professional services healthcare technology retail govern-ment and manufacturing markets


PrologHappy Holidays I hope your Black

Friday and Cyber Monday went well for you Ours went only so-so due to the lack of adequate funds like most of us now-a-days Even so an old German proverb states that ldquoOne who buys needs one hundred eyes one is enough for him who sellsrdquo Letrsquos ldquokick startrdquo this Review and see just how this proverb relates to us here now

The Concern Is For most computer users backing

up files can be quite a chore at least it is for me anyway And procrastination could be a very strong reason why we all may tend to put it off until we really have to But alas if yoursquore like me by then itrsquos often too late and the damage may have already been done

The good news is that there are now some excellent Windows backup software products available that make backing up relatively easy and painless (See my September 2008 BCM Re-view of Backup Now 51 (BUN5) and my August 2007 Review1 of Max-tor OneTouch III (MAX III) ldquoSo easyrdquo (See the Introduction to this Review a couple of pages back for my added emphasis here) that computer users at all levels can routinely and au-tomatically protect their important data from disaster Acronis True Image Home 2009 is just one such product and fortunate for us we Review it here for you this month

ldquoStudy the past if you would divine the futurerdquo - Confucius

Security-RelatedHowever before we get started Irsquom

going to stretch a point here just a little Irsquom classifying this Review as my 57th ldquoSecurity-Relatedrdquo Review (See my reasoning for this in the Introduc-tion to Acronis True Image Home 2009 Review directly preceding this Review) FYI Basically any applica-tion that helps to ldquoProtectSecure andor Hide your Stuffrdquo from the bad guys qualifies for the appellation in my book

And Irsquod like to add the following just in case there is a doubting Thomas or two out there amongst you ldquoPresen-tordquo Proudly and for your edification I give you the following as an up to date ldquopartial list2rdquo of those Security-Re-lated Reviews and Reports I alluded to above They are listed by Product Vendor amp Name BCM Archive Location1 - and you can see every one of them all for yourselves at ltwwwucsorggt

Acronisrsquo True Image Home 2009 (Dec

2008)

Diskeeperrsquos Undelete 2009 (Nov 2008)

Maxtorrsquos BlackArmor 320GB Ext Hd (Oct

2008)

NTIrsquos BackUp Now 5 (Sept 2008)

CMSrsquo CE-Secure Vault (Aug 2008)

CMSrsquo Copy2Go External Hard Drive (May

2008)

Corsairrsquos Flash Padlock UFD (Oct 2007)

Maxtorrsquos OneTouch III 750 GB External

Hard Drive (May 2007)

GuardIDrsquos ID Vault USB Token (Apr

2007)

Lexarrsquos S1100 UFD (Mar 2007)

Kingstonrsquos Data Traveler Secure UFD

(Jan 2007)

US Monstorrsquos USB Hard Drive (Oct

2006)

VIP AutoEnc(54) Security Suite (Designed

for USB Flash Drives External and Internal

Hard Drives and Numerous other Data Storage

Device Types) (Aug 2006)

SanDiskrsquos Titanium UFD (Dec 2005)

SanDiskrsquos Micro UFD (Dec 2005)

SanDiskrsquos CruzerLock 21 UFD (Dec

2005)

Valt-xrsquos Cyber Secure Hard Disk Adapter

(Oct 2005)

Verbatimrsquos Store lsquon Go Pro UFD (Feb

2005)

Kingstonrsquos Data Traveler 2 UFD (Feb

2004)

BioSlimDiskrsquos Biometric UFD (Jan

2004)

M-Systemrsquos DiskOnKey UFD (Jan

2004)

Rainbowrsquos iKey 1000 ldquoiGaterdquo USB Token

(Jun 2003

Trekrsquos Thumbdrive Touch (Biometric)

UFD (Mar 2003)

JMTekrsquos UFD (Feb 2003)

EasyDiskrsquos USB Removable Hard Disk

(Dec 2002)

Cypherusrsquo Cypherus 20 E-mail Encryp-

tion (Aug 2001)

Armadillorsquos RAT Smart Card (Jan

2001)

Armadillorsquos Gatekeeper Smart Card (Jan

2001)

Touch Technologiesrsquo Pocket Server Smart

Card (Dec 2000)

AccessDatarsquos Secure Clean (Sep 2000)

Aladdin Knowledgersquos eSafe USB Token

(Apr 2000)

Armadillorsquos Virtual Gate Smart Card (Jan

2000)

Plus numerous additional Secu-rity-Related News and Views Re-ports but of course -

Allow Me to Paint a Rather Grim Picture for You

1 How about this scenario Yoursquore working away merrily and your monitor screen is filled with this blood-curdling picture (See graphic)


2 Or maybe even this frightening scenario Your PC just up and quits Ka-pow Yoursquore completely wiped out by a Trojan a Virus whatever Anyway yoursquove got that dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSD) OK Go ahead and fill in the blank for yourself here ldquo_ _ _ _rdquo (Or any other such word(s) commonly used to describe profane language or its use including cuss curse deroga-tory language swearing expletive oath bad word dirty word strong language irreverent language obscene language andor blasphemous language et cet-era) -

3 And there are lots more reasons to be sure like Hard Drive failure and the list goes on and on

My Point in All This FalderallAll this Security ldquoStuf[f]rdquo (which

is just a polite 4-letter word substitute if you delete the last letter ldquofrdquo that is) I keep writing about here in BCM isnrsquot just for business it applies equally to us all so keep on reading if you dare -

Note A mule will not be rushed and knows when to quit - hence its reputa-tion for stubbornness Ever heard the term ldquoStubborn as a Mulerdquo (FYI Actual dimensions of the 2rdquo x 4rdquo (ie 1-12rdquo x 3-12rdquo or 38 x 89 mm) needed to get their attention)

Herersquos a Solution to the Above Dilemma(s) et al

Now that Irsquove got your attention there are some special considerations we need to carefully ponder

Q With a plethora of competing Back Up products out there for Acronis and the global economy in doldrums what makes the Acronis True Image Home 2009 (ATIH2009) stand out enough to get users to buy the product over any other For one thing

ldquoIT Spending Predicted To Drop In 2009 According to IDC the IT industry worldwide will lose as much as $300 billion in revenue next year because of the slowing global economyrdquo (Processor Magazine News 102808 p 12)

With the economy in such a ldquoFunkrdquo there is a strong likelihood that users at all levels will head for the ldquoEconomy Hillsrdquo like ldquoFreerdquo Babyrdquo with their meager earnings

Herersquos one report for example Stemming The Application Tide How To Battle The Perpetual Rush of Nonstandard amp Unapproved Applications by Christian Perry (Processor Magazine 102808 p 12) ldquoASK ANY IT MANAGER Itrsquos a war zone out there As open-source software continues to increase in quantity and quality unapproved applications are infiltrating enterprises at unprecedented rates Employees are rarely satisfied with only the slate of IT-approved appli-cations so they often install applications that exist outside of that boundaryrdquo

Better question still Why did yourrsquos truly jump into the ldquoBack of the Hearserdquo again so quickly and excit-edly after having just completed a

Review on a competitorrsquos exact same type of product not two (2) months ago Irsquoll tell you why It was the gentle persuasion of Gene Barlow and his Wife coming up to SLC to give us their ldquoVelvet Touchrdquo approach to problem solving Thatrsquos what

If yoursquove read the ldquoIntroduction to this Reviewrdquo beginning on page 4 you just have to know I have a nearly morbid fear of Utilities in general Theyrsquore deadly to me personally Even though everybody says ldquotheyrsquore easy to userdquo Let me tell you ldquoItrsquos all in the eye of the beholder (or teller as is the case)rdquo I sincerely doubt if Irsquom alone in this entire morass but I could care less Itrsquos a dog eat dog world out there and I need help - not mere words

So I ask you again why would somebody else be influenced to buy Acronis True Image Home 2009 without having that smooth personal touch of Gene to lean on because I know that Gene will continue to do a bang up job selling it as well as supporting what he sells

A very good example of Genersquos sup-port can be found on the CDROM he will send to you if you purchase the Acronis True Image Home (on CDROM) from User Group Relations Go to ltwwwusergroupstorecomgt On Genersquos CD is a 50-minute Tu-torial he has especially prepared that very closely parallels his personal visits to User Groups just like the one he did with Blue Chips last month The Tutorial can also be found on his web site ltwwwugrcomgt Also on the CD is a paper titled ldquoUsing Acronis True Image Home 2009rdquo that Gene recommends be printed out and followed while installing


ATIH2009 Further the CD con-tains the official ATIH2009 Users Manual (See graphic)

Back to our ldquoChoosing a Back-up Productrdquo question (See graph-ic) All Backup products 1) Back up your ldquoStuffrdquo thatrsquos a given 2) Have a Backup automatic schedule 3) Are basically competitively priced and 4) Have differential and full backup and restore capabilities This is an extremely difficult time for everyone not just busi-nesses and the Feds arenrsquot going to bail the little guy out either So something has to make ATIH2009 stand out from all the rest or Acronis will most surely need a lot more help from their other fine products to grow in business now-a-days One ldquoquickie reasonrdquo is

definitely the ldquo247 Live Chatrdquo for Tech Support and Cus-tomer Support Thatrsquos what But Irsquom getting a little ahead of myself here (See graphic)

[Re Acronis True Image Home 2009 One Click Backup - As Sim-ple as It Gets] ldquoTo me the backup of a computer system is just as important as the running of the computer system Be-cause when your computer system stops then you donrsquot work anymorerdquo - Letprimes Talk Computers Host Alan Ashendorf (November 15 2008)

I mention this because if you are not already backing up your ldquoStuffrdquo then why arenrsquot you doing it You donrsquot have to answer that There has to be literally hundreds of reasons Why () and each one revolves around some type of ldquoTrou-blerdquo or potential for ldquoTroublerdquo which is spelled with a capitol ldquoTrdquo

As if that isnrsquot motivation enough for you how about this ever-present computer usage admonition You see this perpetual warning all the time but you pay little to no heed to it none-the-less ldquoNote Before you perform any mainte-nance or make changes to your computer you should always make sure that your data has been backed uprdquo OK OK

In addition to Genersquos web site for some additional outside help there is a certain CNET Community Newslet-ter (CCN) moderated by Lee Koo that I would like to introduce you to at this juncture for some very obvious reasons CCN has been extremely helpful to ldquotrou-bledrdquo netizens worldwide in many many different ways on a weekly basis Check the CNET community newsletter archive out lthttpreviewscnetcom1990-7600_7-5534360-1htmlgt you wonrsquot be sorry you did as you can research many other computer topics there as well

First Things FirstStorage is growing at a horrendous

pace with home videos photos and Tivo and Comcast (and the like) record-ing capability plus social networking web sites like YouTube MySpace Face-Book etc etc You know all this ldquoStuffrdquo needs to be backed up somewhere That somewhere is most likely a hard drive somewhere Actually there are numer-ous hard drives to choose from and

they all come with their own proprietary ldquoBackup Programrdquo or so it seems And there are plenty of them out there too HDrsquos and Backup programs that is

Letrsquos Get Down to Brass Tacks The Pre-planning Checklist

1 Itrsquos a given that your hard drive will eventually fail When I Dunno But it will happen

2 Which brings us to what digital storage medium do you plan to back your ldquoStuffrdquo up to

Note For me personally I chose to use a make-shift modified External Hard Drive enclo-sure (See graphic) for my backup instead of the external 500GB Maxtor One Touch III I used during the Review1 of that product in May 2007 or the Maxtor 320GB Black Armor External Hard Drive I Re-viewed1 in October 2008 I would have had to format both of them and it was just simply easier for me to accomplish the backup with a brand new clean in-ternal WD 250GB Hard Drive mounted in the External CRU-DataPort enclosure I had purchased from EBC Electronics some years back The CBC2 graphic of how I accomplished the actual modi-fication of the External CRU-DataPort enclosure appears later in the Review and the CRU-DataPort URL is ltwwwcru-dataportcomgt (See graph-ics CRU-DataPort amp CBC2 modification graphic elsewhere)


3 Next ldquohow do you planrdquo to backup that important ldquoStuffrdquo Full backup or Incremental and how often do you plan to backup thereafter As the old saying goes ldquoFail to plan plan to failrdquo Another way to put it is the old proverbial admonition ldquoPoor Planning Prevents P Poor Resultsrdquo (P5R)

4 And finally what program do you plan to use in this backup Thatrsquos where ATIH2009 enters the pic-ture and the Review of it herein

OK Now Letrsquos Hear It From Acronis

Herersquos a sampling of Acronis True Image Home 2009 advan-tages (Benefits) 1) Back up and restore using simple wizard-driven commands 2) Create an exact copy of your PC and store it anywhere 3) Back up and restore your music video and data 4) Back up emails Outlook data and settings et al 5) Schedule backups automatically or on-demand 6) Try amp Decide allows you to preview new soft-ware and system configurations before installing 7) Prevent identity theft by encrypting2 your backups 8) Works with Windows XP and Vista and 9) Re-store even if not connected to a network by using Acronis Secure Zone2

ldquoAcronis True Image Home 2009 provides complete PC protec-tion flexibility back up your entire Windows or Linux-based PC plus your data applications settings and OS ATIH2009 is a[n award-winning] comprehensive backup and recovery solution that protects your PC with less work on your part provides the maximum flexibility to ensure you are adequately protected and allows you to recover from the impact of vi-ruses2 unstable software downloads and failed hard drives Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backup only your important data and application settings - your choice and restore from a major failure in minutes or back up just your important data and recover it even faster Millions of PCs are protected by Acronis the top-ranked backup and restore product for the home

ldquoYoursquove accumulated a lifetime of memories on your home PC in addi-tion to important personal documents such as tax returns and resumes not to mention all the applications you have installed and unique settings for each family member that took countless hours to set up Acronis True Image Home 2009 helps makes certain that you are adequately protected ensuring that you can recover your precious data in case your PC fails or your computer hard disk is damaged by a virus

B a c k u p y o u r e n t i r e P C ATIH2009 is built on the most ad-vanced highly rated disk imaging tech-nology available to consumers Copy your entire PC including the operating system applications user settings and all data If you suffer a system or disk crash virus attack2 or other failure you can restore the entire system disk in minutes

Backup your files Any computer can fail at any time regardless of how reliable it is but you canrsquot afford to lose work-related files and digital memo-ries Acronis True Image Home 2009 makes sure you wonrsquot

Protect applications Use ATIH2009 to restore all the settings for Microsoft Office iTunes Windows Media Player and any other installed applicationsrdquo

Note See Detailed Key Technologies and Features Next


Detailed Look at ATIH2009 Key Technologies

Heads UP This is the ldquoReal Dryrdquo (but ldquovery importantrdquo) Techie Stuff Section

Acronis Startup Recovery ManagerBoot your computer after a failure

to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key even if your operat-ing system has failed

Exclude files and foldersBack up only the data you want to

keep and save disk spaceIncremental and Differential Back-

upsSave disk space and time by per-

forming differential and incremental backups

Live BackupsImproved Smart SchedulingRun backups automatically at preset

or elapsed time when user is idle on user log-inlogout on system startupshutdown and in coordination with other events

New Set amp Forget backupsConfigure once and perform back-

ups automaticallyAcronis Secure Zone2

Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition2 on your hard disk where it can be accessed when the system is being restored

Improved Try amp DecideTry new software and browse the

web without endangering your com-puter from malware or unknown soft-ware After testing you can decide

whether to keep or discard changes to your system

Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience with Acronis snapshot technologies

Full Feature Listing of Acronis True Image Home 2009 (See also CBC2 Graphics)

ATIH2009 is more user-friendly Completely redesigned user interface and usability enhancements make Acronis True Image Home easier to use than ever before

Back up your entire PC ATIH2009 is built on the most ad-vanced highly rated disk imaging tech-nology available to consumers Copy your entire PC including the operating system applications user settings and all data If you suffer a system or disk crash virus attack2 or other failure you can restore the entire system disk in minutes

New One-Click protection Initially you decide what where and when to back up

After the installation at the first start of ATIH2009 the program will take stock of your computer storage de-vices and if you have enough free space it will offer to protect your system right away by backing up your system volume and Master Boot Record to the storage location of your choice

After that backups occur automati-cally or with just one click

ATIH2009 will offer you to refresh such backups regularly (by default once in seven days) So you just need to click Protect and your system will be pro-tected from a disaster

New Full text search You are able to search for files through multiple archives by name or by a part of the name and then restore individual files easily and quickly You can also per-form searches of the files content using Google Desktop and Windows Desktop Search If you use one of these search engines you will be able to search for files through multiple archives by name or by part of name and then restore individual files easily and quickly In addition they provide ATIH2009 with an ability of performing full-text indexing of the files in tib archives so you will be able to perform searches of the files contents

New Zip archive format sup-port available In addition to Acronisrsquo

powerful TIB data compression backup format one of the most densely com-pressed backup file types available to consumers ATIH2009 also supports the popular ZIP format

Important Note Search feature supports only tib files The program does not index zip files for searching even if they are created by ATIH2009

New Windows Vista-style in-terface The new sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft Windows XP and Vista operating systems

New Auto backup based on destination availability Users can decide to back up automatically or as soon as a destination drive is available Works jointly with existing scheduling

New Automatic computer shutdown after backup or restora-tion finishes You can now perform a backup at night and go to sleep without bothering about turning off the com-puter The PC will shut down when the back up is complete

New Archive to various places You can save full incremental and differential backups almost any-where You now have ultimate flexibility in choosing a place to store from the same data series on a network share CDDVD USB stick FTP-server any local internal or external hard drive You can now also give meaningful names to incremental and differential backups for example ldquoC-drive-before-repartitioningrdquo

Protect your applications Use Acronis True image Home 2009 to restore all the settings for Microsoft Of-fice iTunes Media Player and any other installed applications

Acronis Boot-time Restore Start working again in seconds while your system is still being restored in the background

Acronis Recovery Manager Boot your computer after a failure to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key even if your oper-ating system has failed

Incremental and differential backup ATIH2009 gives you a choice between two backup types Both capture the changes made since the last backup and with Acronis data compression both save disk space

Live Backups Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience (cont on page 18)






Dual Backup Archive your documents to disk and a USB stick simultaneously USB stick files can be stored in Acronis TIB or Zip compressed format or as flat

Smart Scheduling Run back-ups automatically at preset or elapsed time when user is idle on user logout on system startupshutdown and in coordination with other events

Set and Forget backups Configure once and perform backups automatically

Making reserve copies of your backups You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a net-work drive or a USB storage device You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files a zip compressed file and a tib file

Automatic Consolidation You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup

Automat ic consol idat ion in ATIH2009 creates a new archive with the data from the original ones and deletes the older incremental or differ-ential backups and can be set up for any backup task that creates incremental or differential backups (slices) regardless of the archiversquos storage place (except for removable media)

Exclude Files and Folders Back up only the data you want to keep and save disk space

Migration tools make up-grades easier PC cloning or adding a new disk is simple with ATIH2009rsquos built-in migration tools No longer must you reinstall the operating system ap-plications or re-key user settings when you clone your PC or increase its storage capacity

(Note The following Features

are precisely the reasons for my designating ATIH2009 as ldquoSecuri-ty-Relatedrdquo for this Review)

Security performance and privacy tools2 When you replace a hard drive on your PC Acronis en-sures you donrsquot inadvertently give personal or organizational data to cyber thieves2 Acronis Drive Cleanser a $50 value is included at no charge It protects sensitive data from view by wiping a disk clean2

of all data If you donrsquot need to erase the entire disk File Shredder2 safely destroys individual files so they canrsquot be resurrected A System clean-up utility restores system efficiency

Acronis Secure Zone2 Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition2 on your hard disk where it cannot harm the computer

A r c h i v e e n c r y p t i o n 2 ATIH2009 allows encrypting2 backup files with the industry-standard AES 128 192 or 256-bit cryptographic algorithms

Try amp Decide2 You can try new software and browse the Web without endangering your computer from mal-ware or unknown software After test-ing you can decide whether to keep or discard changes to your system Works across reboots and includes ldquopassword protection2rdquo for parental control

SummaryOK OK already Between

Acronis now and with Gene Bar-low presenting to our monthly Blue Chips meeting Irsquom a real believer OH Did I forget to say that thanks to Genersquos 50-minute Tutorials Genersquos briefing us at the Blue Chips monthly meeting Genersquos paper lsquoUsing ATIH2009rsquo and the Acronis Userrsquos Manual Acronis True Image Home 2009 installed lsquoEasilyrsquo and was indeed lsquoEasy to Usersquo Well thankfully it did Whew

ConclusionTaking Confuciusrsquo advice to

heart I have indeed studied the past and can now confidently de-rive my future that is with Acro-nis True Image Home 2009 now flying CAP (Combat Air Patrol) for my ever hazardous PC combat mis-sions Acronis True Image Home 2009 is definitely the product of choice around here and with Genersquos dedicated and able support will be for you for a long time to come as well Itrsquos most definitely a ldquoReal Winnerrdquo Sicrsquoem Tiger

PostludeI sincerely hope you will get

in touch with Gene and let him work with you on this ldquoBack Uprdquo thing plus the many other Utility products that he carries at his User Group Store ltwwwusergroup-storecomgt I am extremely grate-ful to Gene and Linda for all their help in getting this Review out to you ldquoon timerdquo especially with all the medical exigencies flooding our household lately

Footnotes


2 Feature(s) precisely identified as reason(s) for designating this Review as ldquoSecurity-Relatedrdquo

Happy Holidays from Donna and me

Ciao


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Utah Blue Chips CalendarDecember 2008 January 2009

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trade

RecentTrends

By Cliff Millward Editorcliffmxmissioncom

Finegrave

She Used to Have an Hourglass figureBut the Sands Have Shifted ()

According to Scientists (at the University of Utah no less) the best female figure is not an hourglass

A less than perfect body might be bet-ter because they may be better adapted to economics and bread winning The ldquomovie star worshipersrdquo prefer the hour-glass shape but the ldquoMarilyn Monroerdquo shape is becoming less popular on the whole

Hormones are to blame for a wom-anrsquos shape The hormones that make women stronger and more emotionally stable tend to produce fat around the midsection

Men however seem to prefer an hourglass when looking for a companion Women with an hourglass figure seem to be usually more healthy and fertile

Computer geeks donrsquot care what their computers look like They love them

even if they are dumpy looking (They look even better if they have a piece of half-eaten pizza close by)

Perhaps the doll to the left is the perfect shape for

computer geeks -- even to the dress shoes and ribbon in the hair -- but

no pizza

Signs of the Times

The economic downturn is slowly creeping into everyonersquos life but some of it is not caused by govern-ment ATampT plans to lay off 12000 people soon Their revenue has been declining because people are dropping

landlines Cell phones are much more convenient and ldquolandlinerdquo phones can be part of anyonersquos broadband connection

ATampT stock is falling and the once good stock is becoming suspect (along with every other stock I might add)

I believe however that they will weather this storm as it expands its high-speed Internet and video platform

A bright spot is the Apple iPhone which is growing rapidly ATampT has cornered the market of the iPhone in the U S

Linux Meets the Red Dragon

Authorities in the Nanchang China are forcing the cityrsquos Internet cafes to replace Windows with Red Flag Linux However this change has a high price tag for the cafe owners and some of them are saying they will have to close their doors

Red Flag is a Chinese made Linux system (I wonder if it is an off shoot of Red Hat Linux)

Authorities say it is an effort to stop piracy (yea right) Politicians love taxes but when they want to disguise a ldquotaxrdquo they invent fees or some kind of ruse to obtain the capitol -- thus a charge for ldquolicensingrdquo the system

One wonders however whether some extra code will be embedded for spying purposes and I thought Linux was a ldquofreerdquo system

MerryChristmas


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Blue Chips Magazine

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Advertising Rates















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Windows Review










































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Card (Dec 2000)



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Ciao


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Virus hits nearly



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Windows Review










































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2007)



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Card (Dec 2000)



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Virus hits nearly



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Windows Review










































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2007)



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Card (Dec 2000)



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Windows Review










































2008)



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2007)



(Jan 2007)


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2005)


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2001)


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Card (Dec 2000)



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2000)















































































































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MagazineDeadline

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UBCGeneral Meeting

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Windows Review










































2008)



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2007)



(Jan 2007)


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2001)


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Card (Dec 2000)



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Card (Dec 2000)



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Card (Dec 2000)



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Documents

Volume 26, No. 12 December2008