Problem always same, budget concerns. Friends complain about high IT service fees. I can tell that most AC members are in the same situation, trying to control costs. To go along with AC reasonable operating cost, we have to wear many hats ourselves. Are we going backward in our small business model? Work the farm, fix the farm equipments, waking up early..., but old farmers they went to bed early and have a full night rest.
Bert, you are perfectly right about simple causes. But my security concern is short term. Our IT security is not that bad compared to some local friends. We have a small, locked networking and server room. Not that many AC docs lucky to be in my doc situation, to have a very dependable, low level, handy consultant and pay him only three meals a day.
Talking about dependability, yesterday, my 1 mos old S. hard drive and another W. external failed, same day, yes. I just talked about how dependable storage media last week. I mostly buy things based on buyers feed backs but there always a small percentage of dissatisfaction because of failures.
At the start of Solid State drive mania. I was so in love with them, they amazingly fast, load applications in less than an eye blink. Recently Microsoft just announced Windows 8 could load in less than 8 sec, but that old new. With SSD, my test system was ready to go in about 5 seconds. After couple of SSDs later , the latest was Intel SSD that I used in my AC 'server', mysterious crashes happened, some information that I read telling that SSD not that perfect even if their claim so impressive because of solid state memory still governed by its controller or its manufacturing process. Always be prepared.
I just setup another test system running 6.010 on windows 7. I restored it every couple nights using 6.09 backups, to run database tuner every time. It has been stable for last 2 weeks. Ready to upgrade this weekend. Seamless switchover because of my multi system setups. My test system can be promoted to 'real', any problem then switch them back. AC support is not that available when we need them.
