OK, I really just wanted to see if I could get a slide show to show up here on the Blog....Most of you have probably already seen these...
-Bry
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Alex's Mission Photos
Here are some of Alex's Mission Photos. Sandy writes, "Alex did not give any messages with these photos. but he is loving the mission. Lately the allergies are bothering him, but he has a great attitude about it. Looks like he has a lot of fun too!
Thursday, March 1, 2007
Lori's Moving Day
This move today goes down in Petersen history as the fastest move...I believe...EVER! Lynette, Bart, Jesse, Mikaela, Taylor, Craig, Chris, Bradley, Katie, Lori, Madison and myself all met at Lori's at about 10:30 this morning. Lori, apparently very anxious to get into her new townhouse, had already loaded her truck up twice and made the drive back and forth to her new place!
We had completely loaded and unloaded just about everything by 1:30pm. Lori will still have a lot of unpacking to do, and will still need to gather up some final "stuff" at the house. However, the vast majority is done and the furniture and appliances have found their new place in Lori's beautiful new home. Take a look for yourself, it a great little townhouse!
On a final note, I got rid of my phone service...so my new # is 801-938-6523, which is an unlimited Skype account eBay purchased for me. I still need to get a VoIP phone, so I can answer my calls, however for now it will be used kind of like a pager. Once I get the phone hooked up, I'll have to give you a call so you can hear the clarity...you just might want to get rid of your current phone system and switch over to Skype...especially when you see that it only costs a fraction of the cost of landlines and there is pretty much free long distance! http://www.skype.com/
We had completely loaded and unloaded just about everything by 1:30pm. Lori will still have a lot of unpacking to do, and will still need to gather up some final "stuff" at the house. However, the vast majority is done and the furniture and appliances have found their new place in Lori's beautiful new home. Take a look for yourself, it a great little townhouse!
On a final note, I got rid of my phone service...so my new # is 801-938-6523, which is an unlimited Skype account eBay purchased for me. I still need to get a VoIP phone, so I can answer my calls, however for now it will be used kind of like a pager. Once I get the phone hooked up, I'll have to give you a call so you can hear the clarity...you just might want to get rid of your current phone system and switch over to Skype...especially when you see that it only costs a fraction of the cost of landlines and there is pretty much free long distance! http://www.skype.com/
WipeDrive...Reformatting your Hard Drive
Mom and Dad's computer has been getting very slowing over the past couple of years, and Mom was getting to the point where she just wanted to throw it out the window! Mine too was getting pretty slow and buggy, so I looked into reformatting the hard drives.
I had always been really timid about taking on such a task, however, after reading up about it...it really isn't that hard to do.
I found a program called WipeDrive. For $39.95, you get a disk that you place into your computer and then turn it on. It will take you to a screen where you can choose to completely wipe your hard drive clean...it's recommended you wipe it a couple of times, especially if you've had some viruses.
You first need to insure that any information, such as pictures and documents, are backed up to a disk...once you wipe the disk, they're gone and unless you have a "clean room" and special hard drive mirroring equipment, your not going to get any of it back. (The program claims that it wipes a disk to Pentagon standards, however, Craig tells me short of taking a blow torch to your drive, there is still a possibility of extracting what was written on it, however for our purposes, this will suffice to get all the information off the drive)
After the "wipe" is complete, you insert your computers back up disk(s) (They came with your computer) and once again turn on your computer. Your computer will now be restored to it original settings and program list, just like it was when you first bought it.
We were amazed at how fast our computers are now, and they are completely bug free...This was well worth the time and money spent...just like getting a new computer!
Here is the link to the website for WipeDrive:
http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php
I had always been really timid about taking on such a task, however, after reading up about it...it really isn't that hard to do.
I found a program called WipeDrive. For $39.95, you get a disk that you place into your computer and then turn it on. It will take you to a screen where you can choose to completely wipe your hard drive clean...it's recommended you wipe it a couple of times, especially if you've had some viruses.You first need to insure that any information, such as pictures and documents, are backed up to a disk...once you wipe the disk, they're gone and unless you have a "clean room" and special hard drive mirroring equipment, your not going to get any of it back. (The program claims that it wipes a disk to Pentagon standards, however, Craig tells me short of taking a blow torch to your drive, there is still a possibility of extracting what was written on it, however for our purposes, this will suffice to get all the information off the drive)
After the "wipe" is complete, you insert your computers back up disk(s) (They came with your computer) and once again turn on your computer. Your computer will now be restored to it original settings and program list, just like it was when you first bought it.
We were amazed at how fast our computers are now, and they are completely bug free...This was well worth the time and money spent...just like getting a new computer!
Here is the link to the website for WipeDrive:
http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php
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