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How to convert Outlook Express; Checking drives for errors

July 8th, 2008, 9:39 am by

North Orange County Computer Club Q&AThe North Orange County Computer Club helps The Gadgetress tackle the multitude of readers cries for help. NOCCC group has experts in Windows, Word and all sorts of computer topics. The club, which meets monthly on various topics, has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org.

Question: I have been using Outlook Express for many years and I also own Office 2000, which contains Outlook. I want to convert from Outlook Express to Outlook, but I also want to keep the address book and copies of e-mails I have stored in “Express.” How can I switch over to Outlook and also retain all the items in my “Local Folders”?

Item No. 2: I have an external Hard Disk (Western Digital WD120B005-RNN). Something happened that won’t allow me to access the data. When I plug it into the USB port the drive appears in “Explorer” but no data shows up. I think the directory is fouled up somehow. Is there a way to correct this?

NOCCC: To upgrade from Outlook Express, first go to the “File” menu in Outlook, and click “Import and Export.”

The Import and Export Wizard opens and presents a list. Click “Import Internet Mail and Addresses,” and then click “Next.”

From that list, select “Outlook Express 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Western Digital reaches 1 TB!

July 23rd, 2007, 12:11 pm by

Western Digital’s first 1 TB driveIn a press release announcing its “Green” efforts, Lake Forest’s Western Digital buried the news that it now has a 1-terabyte hard drive.

No specifics are mentioned in the press release, but WD just verified that this is indeed a “single (four platter) drive. It is our first 1 TB drive,” said Heather Skinner, a WD spokesperson. It ships THIS MONTH! It will first appear in an external MyBook hard drive and next month, will be available as an internal desktop drive.

This puts Western Digital back into the game, which was trailing more than a year behind largest rival Seagate Technology with a 750-GB drive. While Hitachi announced the first 1-TB drive in January, Seagate just got around to its first terabyte drive last month. Maybe that’s why Western Digital didn’t make a big fuss about this.

WD’s GreenPower initiativeNow back to its GreenPower effort, Western Digital is calling its line of external and internal hard drives “environmentally friendly,” because they “save up to 40 percent in hard-drive power consumption, or as much as $10 per drive per year.”

Technically, WD’s new drives consume 5 watts less than the typical 1 TB drive (which uses 13.5 watts). And it reduces CO2 emission by 60 kilograms per drive per year.

To qualify as an Energy Star 4.0 computing system, the company needed to minimize its carbon footprint and offer savings in electricity costs. While saving $10 a year doesn’t sound like much, WD points out that this could help a data center with 10,000 drives save $100,000 a year in energy costs plus reduce CO2 emission by 600 metric tons — the equivalent of taking almost 400 cars off the road for a year.

The first “GreenPower” drive is the WD Caviar GP, or the aforementioned 1 TB drive. GreenPower versions of enterprise and consumer-electronics drives will be available in the third quarter, which is now.

As for price, no specifics yet. Says Heather with WD: “The new 1TB drives will be in price parity to Hitachi’s 1 TB drive.”

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Zetera goes back to school

May 15th, 2006, 11:19 am by

** Updated Tues, May 16: Ahh… more details after my interview with Ryan Malone, Zetera’s director of marketing. The MIT project is filming every waking moment of professor Deb Roy’s infant son to learn when a child recognizes his mothers voice or realizes a doorbell is a doorbell. All that footage is uploaded nightly to MIT’s computers using a system set up by Zetera. The best part about Zetera’s system is it’s pay as you go – no need to spend millions on equipment up front. Buy more storage and hardware on an as needed basis and Zetera’s technology can easily scale to fit. Read my interview with Ryan in today’s paper HERE. **

Watch the press conferenceThis just in: Zetera, the Irvine company that developed the tech for NetGear’s Storage Central (which I reviewed last October), teamed up with Seagate, Bell Microproducts and Marvell to build one of the world’s biggest and fastest digital storage hubs, called storage arrays, at and for the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a.k.a. MIT. See the video HERE.

How big? At least one Petabyte (equal to 1 million gigabytes). This one-of-a-kind computer is made of everyday technology, including Zetera’s ZSAN technology to manage the data storage and make it easier and faster to access.

Get your own ZSANPhysically, the project involves more than 3,000 Seagate SATA hard drives, 300 Hammer Z-Rack storage enclosures, more than 100 Marvell-based 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches and 400 blade processors. Expectation is that it will process 700 terabytes of data during each 12-hour overnight run. More technical specifics are available here.

The high-tech collaboration is part of MIT Media Lab’s Human Speechome Project designed to better understand early childhood cognitive development. Associate Professor Deb Roy has been collecting terabytes of digital audio and video of early childhood learning and socialization data. Says the project site: “Applications include computational modeling of situated language acquisition and other social/behavioral activities, personal memory augmentation, audio/video content management, and audio/video analysis for security.”

In other words, mega storage. When built out to its 1.4-petabyte potential, this mega-computer storage system will have enough room for a high-res photo of every human in the world, says Zetera.

Now, if they could only plug it into UC Irvine’s mondo HIPerwall high-res monitor…

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