Backups and data safety for home and business users
A guidance piece by Eric Spellmann on why backups matter when a hard drive fails. It explains full versus incremental backups, what to back up (data not programs), and media options like Zip disks, CD ReWritable, and tapes. Also notes floppy disks are unreliable and discusses using networks for shared backups.
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Gether
Questions raised over $400000 earmarked for city affluence
A reader questions why Brownfield earmarked $400000 for affluent citizens and wastewater disposal. The letter links land procurement for water to effluent discharge, and editors note a wording error about affluence versus effluent while urging prudent backups and offsite storage in cyber space.
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Mr. Brisendine
Brownfield
Websters
Moore
Elizabeth Harben Ribble
Brownfield News
Lynn
Liz
Changing Texas Addresses and Proposals for Modernization
Feature column discusses shift from rural route mail to street addresses, legal push from 1989, funding and data challenges, and goals to eliminate rural routes in five years. Includes side notes on pets, city rankings, camel rides, and a Kerrville horseshoeing program.
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Jack Maguire
Texas
Uncle Sam
Plains Cotton Growers Set 43rd Annual Meeting Speakers
Plains Cotton Growers announces speakers for its 43rd Annual Meeting on April 6 2000 at Lubbock Memorial Civic Center in conjunction with the Texas Cotton Ginners Association Trade Show. Event features J Berrye Worsham III Gus Schumacher and Dr Mark Lange with remarks from outgoing PCG President Don Langston and EVP Steve Verett.
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PGC
Shawn Wade
Lubbock Memorial Civic Center
PCG
Don Langston
Lubbock
Steve Verett
Plains Cotton Improvement Committee
Dale Swinburn
Tulsa
J. Berrye Worsham, III
Cotton Incorporated
Carey
North Carolina
Worsham
August
Gus) Schumacher, Jr
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
Schumacher
Department
Mark Lange
National Cotton Council
Memphis
Lange
PCG Board of Directors
A Call to Action for Texas Non Voters
The text urges Texas residents who do not vote to engage in a four step process. Register to vote, learn how officials vote on key issues, vote against those who push more government and spending, and evaluate candidates by their promised actions versus re election. It argues politicians pursue pork to win votes and aims for national welfare over parochial interests.
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PCG
House Ag Committee
Lubbock
Mark Williams
House Agriculture Committee
Plains Cotton Growers
Williams
Charles Stenholm
Dan Glickman
Senate Ag Committee
Senate Agriculture Committee
Kerry Roberts
Senate
House
Ag Committee
Larry Combest
Congress
Texas
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