Was it fare?

When I heard that the conflict which was between Microsoft and Linux is over last week I asked my self a lot of question. The first one was whether there was a need to compare these two . The conflict was based on operating systems. Linux is an open source software whereas Microsoft is cormmecial one, so I do not see the point of comparing these two. According to what I personaly know Microsoft server provide more features than Linux. Features such as active directory, remote access virtual private network and terminal servers are some of the feature that make microsoft windows operating system more advance than Linux.

The great thing on Linux is that it provide users flexibility to modify operating system according to His/Her requirement. Some features of Linux are these, you can use Linux machine as web server, can be used to dial out and connect to internet and it support Samba servers.

Back up

The little things we take for granted with computers are the one we see their importance when they are in actual need. Not all of computer a Users take into consideration to create back up of their Operating System, boot files and data. Let say your OS and data are saved in one location which is C: drive and for any reason your computer crashes. In this situation you can not start your computer and the sad part you can not access you important files. In nowadays OS you can automate the back up so there are no excuses not to do it.

There different kind of back up you can choose from ranging from normal, copy, differential, incremental and daily back up.You just need to choose the one that suit your requirements. I can advice Users to use external hard drive as the back up media. Though you can use media such as USBs and CDs but I would personally recommend hard drive as you can back up as many things as you like due to it high capacity. My disadvantage of CDs and USBs is that you may end up having many copies which may lead to you forgeting the one with back up you need to restore or you may loose them.

Program not responding

This is the Windows' way of telling the User that is or might having a problem. Many computer Users when encounters the phrase " program is not responding" they don't understand it in return they end up doing what they not suppose to do. Operating System, software program and drivers might stop respoding or sometimes cause other programs to to stop responding.

Causes to this may be any of the followings

1 Conflict of software or hardware resources between two programs.
2 Lack of systems' resources..
3 Programming Errors
4 Scattered data in the hard disk.
5 Software design Error
6 Viruses and spywares

Solutions
You can kill the particular program not responding via task manager( press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC). You do this if you can not wait, sometimes other programs take time to respond to the Users request due to CPU intensive calculations which when complited, program may start responding again. As viruses may cause this, therefore you need to make sure that the anti-virus is running and up to date. Make sure that Windows and hardware drivers are up to date.

In most cases this may be a minor issue yet sometime it lead to the deeper issue.