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Lump Crab and Data

The weekend began with some great apple-smoked ribs, fettuccini with chicken and a creamy Dijon mustard sauce and finally Indian food (goat curry, lamb curry, vegetable curry, rice pilaf, and naan). Everything was very good. If I had not entered the weekend with a recipe of the week in mind, the pasta with cream and mustard would be the one. On Saturday, I had planned to simply stop at a restaurant for Tex-Mex when Gay, my wife, suggested pasta instead. Most of you would have selected an Italian restaurant, however, my most innovative cooking revolves around pasta. So, with no plan, I went into the kitchen, inspected the refrigerator and 20 minutes later we were enjoying a wonderful mustard cream sauce seasoned with a little bit of rosemary and thyme. What could beat that? Well, I wanted a different kind of salad as a first course for a pot roast dinner and after some thought I decided upon the steakhouse wedge salad. Iceberg lettuce is often ignored these days but a good wedge salad can steal the show. In this case, I selected lump crab to be the star over bacon and blue cheese. I also used a wonderful Remoulade as the dressing which highlighted the crab.This is a must and a very simple recipe (especially if you buy a pre-made remoulade sauce). Wedge Salad lump crab, enjoy!

Backup data on the company

Recently, when we think of cloud computing, we look at the myriad of new applications. However, a much more traditional was for data storage and backup. Although the data storage and backup services are abundant and very inexpensive, many companies do not benefit from them.

Forrester Research published a poll, Market Overview: Backup Software-as-a-service, small businesses and businesses to understand their use of backup services. The report was released in December of 2010 and to me the numbers are very low. For example, only 6 percent of SMBs, and 7 percent of enterprises, have adopted off-site backup as a service. It is therefore not surprising how much data is lost when servers fail or disasters strike. Forrester found that only 11 percent of either SMBs or enterprises even have plans to implement off-site backup for their corporate data. This morning I read that a concern for utilizing these services was security of the data. I derived to key points from the article: Encrypt your data prior to sending it into the cloud and use both strong usernames AND passwords.

This is much more relevant to the Broadvox Partner Program since the announcement of GO!Services in May. Our VARs and agents should be advising our mutual customers and prospects about the value of online data storage and giving them assurances regarding the safety and privacy of using such a service. Given the current level of penetration, there is a lot of opportunity. Perhaps, given the number of disasters this year, it is time for you to add such services to your portfolios. Consider that 40 percent of SMBs and 36 percent of enterprises indicate an interest in such services, but do not have plans to purchase. This is a rather simple introduction to the benefits of moving to the cloud with a solid value proposition. Losing company and employee PC data is very disruptive to business operations, customers and suppliers.

Encrypt Your Private Dropbox Data With EncFS | Linuxo Planet

- Truecrypt is great, but to use it with Dropbox you must manually unmout the filesystem to get it to sync which is kind of against the whole Dropbox idea. For those who don't mind having to manually unmount the filesystem to get it to sync, this is probably a better solution (because Truecrypt is very easy to set up on any OS: Linux, Windows or Mac).

- SecretSync is a new tool to encrypt some files in your Dropbox folder. While it works great (though there's currently a bug in the Linux version) and is cross-platform, it's no different than Dropbox because the encryption keys are not stored on your computer but on their server.

So the best way to encrypt your Dropbox files is probably using EncFS . EncFS is very easy to configure and doesn't require manually mounting or unmounting the filesystem.