Talk on Mirrored System Disk Backups, Backups to the Cloud - iDrive, and Dropbox on Feb 16, 2012, Kinnelon Public Library, NJ -- see the Working Computers Blog Articles:
http://www.kinneloncomputers.com/2012/02/talk-how-to-take-care-of-your-computer.html
and:
http://www.kinneloncomputers.com/2012/02/taking-care-of-your-computer-for-free.html
A simple and easy overview of what you can do to keep your Windows PC running smoothly. Free and easy cleanup and optimization tips with useful links and short intros.
Discover why MAC Computers Start good and then become slow by the time!
How to Fix this problem with simple steps.
http://mac-runningslow.blogspot.com/
https://ismacrunningslow.wordpress.com/
About
Google Drive
Anti Virus
How to Delete Tempory Files
How to Change the Network Adapter setting
Connecting a Projector and using Extended Desktop
Cleaning and Maintaing your Laptop
Troubleshooting Techniques
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
A simple and easy overview of what you can do to keep your Windows PC running smoothly. Free and easy cleanup and optimization tips with useful links and short intros.
Discover why MAC Computers Start good and then become slow by the time!
How to Fix this problem with simple steps.
http://mac-runningslow.blogspot.com/
https://ismacrunningslow.wordpress.com/
About
Google Drive
Anti Virus
How to Delete Tempory Files
How to Change the Network Adapter setting
Connecting a Projector and using Extended Desktop
Cleaning and Maintaing your Laptop
Troubleshooting Techniques
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Take Care of Your Computer Part 2 -- Backup, Clone Your System Disk Feb-16-2012
1. How To Take Care of Your
Computer
for Little or No Money
3 Part Series
Part 2 – How To Make a Bootable Clone of Your System Disk
– Backup Critical Files for Free On-Line
– Question and Answer Session
Ted Whittemore
The Working Computers Blog & Kinnelon Computers
www.kinneloncomputers.com
2. Who is Ted Whittemore?
• Owner of Working Computers and the
Working Computers Blog
• Has worked in computer services industry
since 1987 building, servicing, and selling
computer systems, software and
maintenance
4. What’s the Plan for today?
• Discuss backing up your computer and
making bootable disk copies
• Show you how to verify your disk copies
• Backup Critical Data Freely On-Line
• Answer questions and solve problems
*All of the subjects covered are also in
articles in the Working Computers Blog,
@ www.kinneloncomputers.com
5. Before We Deal With These Issues
• Feel free to ask specific questions
about the topic we are covering
• Please save general questions for the
end
6. Mirroring or Cloning vs Traditional
Archival Backup
• Traditional Backup Saves Files in Lists with a
database directory for Restore
• Mirror Cloning makes an exact Bootable Copy of
Your Primary OS Disk (and any other disks)
• Why do you Care which You Have?
• If Your Drive or Computer Fails – You Can
Reboot Your Computer or an exact
Replacement with a Mirror Backup
• If you have an Archival Backup, You Can’t
7. Free Cloning Software
• All of the following work well and can
be downloaded at the links provided:
• Acronis for Seagate/Maxtor Hard Drives
• Acronis for Western Digital Hard Drives
• Keriver 1 Click Restore
• Drive Image XML
• Paragon Backup and Recovery
• O&O Diskimage 4 Express
8. Commercial Software
1. Most of the Free Software above has a
Commercial Counterpart with added
functionality
2. Casper 7.0 from Future Systems which is a
simple & automatic drive cloning and
partition repair utility with very robust error
checking, verification, and equipment
problem detection, that costs about $50
9. Features of Casper 7.0
• Casper is a Dedicated Disk Cloning program -- it does
not do Archival Backups
• Casper does do incremental Backups as an Image – that
is, it rewrites the bits and bytes required
• Casper and All Disk Cloning programs are Destructive –
they delete the old image before they write the new
image
• Casper will resize the disk image to fit the disk target,
within available space
• Casper will make Clones to internal disks and external
disks, incl. Sata, eSata, and USB, incl. USB 3
10. Running Casper 7
• You need an additional disk at least as large as the used
disk space of the disk to be cloned.
• If external the disk needs to be connected with a dock or
a case that allows the drive to talk to the computer
• Casper will automatically recognize a new disk and ask
you if the new disk should be a backup drive.
• If yes, you can follow the prompts to setup and use the
drive for automatic backup on schedule
• If no, you can manually setup any attached drive to
backup an other drive of choice on a daily, weekly, or
any other schedule.
• Take a look at the following screens:
13. The One Downside of Clone
Backups
• Destructive Install
• What Can You Do About It?
• Either Don’t Worry About It, or
• Make a 2nd Backup to a 2nd Disk
15. And If You Want The Drive
External:
An External Docking Station:
16. So Then --You Have a Backup
• If your Boot Drive Fails You Can:
• Boot from Your External Disk or Secondary
Internal Disk by Depressing the F8 Key on Boot
or Reboot before the Dell, HP or other Logo
appears and Choose
• Or Set Your BIOS to Boot from the External
Disk, which you enter with the F2 or DEL Key on
Boot
• Do Teach Yourself or Have Someone Teach
You How to Do This, So You Will Know How if
You Need To
17. What If My Computer Dies?
• Can I just get a new computer and boot from a Cloned Backup
Hard Drive?
• Only if you get almost exactly the same computer. The drivers
and machine specific code will not work with another computer.
• Can I restore somehow to a new computer?
• Yes!
• There is commercial software from Laplink called PC Mover Image
Assistant that will upgrade from an older Windows XP, Vista, or 7
bootable system disk to a new system’s as shipped disk.
• Just connect the old disk via USB 2 or higher, Sata or eSata to the
new computer, go to Laplink’s PC Mover page and purchase the
software for $40, download and install it, and it will allow you to
move all of your applications, data, files, passwords and
settings to the new computer!
18. iDrive – Backup to the Cloud
• Backup up to 5 GB of files of your Choice to the iDrive
Cloud daily and automatically for free
• Restore to any machine anywhere, anytime with your
Username and Password
20. Why Backup to the Cloud is a Good Thing
• Offsite -- You Can’t Burn it Down or Lose It
• Your Most Critical Files – The Ones You Do
Not Want To Lose
• You Can Restore Anyplace to Any Computer,
Anytime
21. What Are Your Cloud Backup Choices?
Here are a Few:
• iDrive – www.iDrive.com
• Mozy -- http://mozy.com/home/free
• Windows Live Mesh --
//explore.live.com/windows-live-
essentials-other-programs?T1=t4
• Dropbox – www.dropbox.com
22. Dropbox
• Dropbox functions like a normal directory
in your personal filesystem, but, when you
put files into it, up to 2 GB free …
• The files are shared automatically with all
of the computers linked to that directory on
your account.
• You can share publically as well.
24. Take a Look at My Dropbox Public Folder
• Right-Clicking on a file in the Public Folder generates a
donwloadable link like the one below
• dl.dropbox.com/u/56962380/mbam-consumer.exe
25. What is in My Folders???
• Presentations for These Library Talks
– I worked on them on my home computer
– Saved Them to My Dropbox Folder
– Which is Linked to My Wife’s Laptop --
• The Laptop You See in Front of Me Now
– Therefore Has My Presentation in it
Automatically --
• And I Am Running It for You Now:
– How About That?
26. How Can You Use DropBox ?
• Automatically Save Documents to Other Computers
• Share Documents with Colleagues or Friends
•Save Files to the DropBox Website
•Share Files to Your Smarphone – iPhone or Android
•Never Lose and Important File Again!!!
27. Backup Strategies – Belt and
Suspender
• Use all 3 Recommended Backup Tools,
since they all address different problems
• Use an Archival Backup System as
well, such as the one that comes with
Windows – It Can’t Hurt!
• Set Them to Run Automatically
• Check Them Once a Month or so To
Make Sure They Are Working
28. Summary
• This Presentation and all links will be up on the
Working Computers Blog shortly – you do not
need to take notes if you don’t want to.
• These Topics and a lot more are covered on the
Working Computers site, along with links to
software and sites for easy downloading.
• Remember, it’s all at
www.kinneloncomputers.com
30. Please Assess Seminar
• There are Assessment Sheets for this talk
available on the table, and I should have
already handed them out – Please take a
moment to tell us what you think and give
us any suggestions you may have.
• Thanks!