Comments on: Essential Hardware http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/10/10/essential-hardware/328.html Discussion and opinions about the trucking industry Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:19:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Dave http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/10/10/essential-hardware/328.html/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Dave Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:52:36 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/10/10/essential-hardware/328.html#comment-373 The hard drive in my two year old laptop died catastrophically (spelling?), and I think it was because of the vibration it got sitting on the passenger seat. I was all set to get one of those 'truckers workstation' things that attach to the seat, but my newest company truck has an upholstered "lawn chair" bolted to the deck with not adjustment, much less airride... sigh... I'm putting in a plug for the online backup service MOZY.COM. $5 a month for unlimited backup space and easy restores. It saved my bacon and let me recover almost 13 GB of pictures, music and such that would have otherwise have been totally lost. And it backs up your system 'while you sleep.' ;) The hard drive in my two year old laptop died catastrophically (spelling?), and I think it was because of the vibration it got sitting on the passenger seat. I was all set to get one of those ‘truckers workstation’ things that attach to the seat, but my newest company truck has an upholstered “lawn chair” bolted to the deck with not adjustment, much less airride… sigh…

I’m putting in a plug for the online backup service MOZY.COM. $5 a month for unlimited backup space and easy restores. It saved my bacon and let me recover almost 13 GB of pictures, music and such that would have otherwise have been totally lost. And it backs up your system ‘while you sleep.’ ;)

]]> By: Tim Wylder http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/10/10/essential-hardware/328.html/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Tim Wylder Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:29:55 +0000 http://lifeontheroad.com/2007/10/10/essential-hardware/328.html#comment-352 How about a blue tooth printer? You don't need any wires other than the power to the printer. The data is sent to the spool by blue tooth signal. Most come with encription so you data is not just out there so anyone in the truck stop can snag it. Put the printer wherever you want, its just like sending the data to a network printer down the hall. As for the backup? I went to radio shack while I was passing through Arizona and bought a 160 gig external plug and play hard drive for around $75. I would back up my hard drive once a week while I was sleeping, then put that drive away so it couldn't be corrupted! There are cheaper external drives but I stored a lot of pictures so I wanted the bigger drive. How about a blue tooth printer? You don’t need any wires other than the power to the printer. The data is sent to the spool by blue tooth signal. Most come with encription so you data is not just out there so anyone in the truck stop can snag it. Put the printer wherever you want, its just like sending the data to a network printer down the hall. As for the backup? I went to radio shack while I was passing through Arizona and bought a 160 gig external plug and play hard drive for around $75. I would back up my hard drive once a week while I was sleeping, then put that drive away so it couldn’t be corrupted! There are cheaper external drives but I stored a lot of pictures so I wanted the bigger drive.

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