Suppose I have a Droid with Verizon service (provided by a corporate account that will expire on the 22nd). If I were to add a line to my already existent Verizon account, could I put this phone onto it and not lose all the old messages etc. that it had from the old number?

-t, ask them to do a change of financial responsibility. The corporation will have to release the account to you, so it will probably mean a conference call. You can then keep the phone as well, assuming of cours the company is amenable to this.

-t, if you still have the phone, and it's the actual voicemails (not, say, the "hi, this is bob, leave a message if you like carrots"), most carriers have an option to forward the message, I think. So even if corporate wouldn't let you keep the actual phone number...

Good options I hadn't thought of! Thanks!

Apple.com is now saying that pre-ordered iPhones will ship July 2nd. Guess enough other people got through yesterday while I was locked out!

[And bah humbug anyway - since the phones have to be shipped to my billing address and I don't trust my post office, I'll just have to take my chances in the store on the 24th.]

I have a brand new PC that I spent the better part of two days loading software into and configuring. As I was working on it, I realized I needed some settings from the old computer. I unplugged the monitor to attach to the old computer, did what I needed to do, then reattached the monitor. In the course of this, there was the normal amount of moving stuff around and cursing, because I already had the cords coiled up. In the process, I did turn the computer so the back was up, the better to get at connections requiring little tiny fingers. This is something I've done probably hundreds of times on other computers. When I plugged everything back into the computer, nothing works. It doesn't connect to the monitor; the USB ports aren't live. The On button has a light that's on, but the computer isn't making computer noises. I'm about to get into the tedious round of talking to the manufacturer (well known for dreadful customer service), the vendor and AmEx. Does anyone have any suggestions about something else I could try to bring it back to life?

Also, the best case scenario I can think of is that they swap it out for a new one, but now I have data on the hard drive that I really don't want to leave the house.

Any thoughts on backup and archiving (both) for a five computer small business? Are there any remote backup solutions (along the lines of Norton Backup) that can handle that volume of data without eating up all our bandwidth? Alternately should I just get a SAN or NAS hard disk with some decent backup software.

Also I really want two functions:

1) Recent backups of data and software settings on all computers.

2) Archive - Weekly data only snapshots

two things:

1) if you are networked, I have heard good things about drobo. here is a coupon code for it from a show I listen to a lot. however, I do not use drobo and cannot offer any personal testimony. This coupon nets me nothing personally.

[link]

if you use drobo, then what you could do is get additional hard drives and store 1-2 of them off site and rotate them weekly, etc.

2) if you want in the cloud solutions, this is decent: [link]

you might try mozy (I have heard good things about it, but I didn't like it on my mac), and [link]

Hi le nubian. Thanks. The Drobo sounds good. The FS sounds like it would be very reliable for network storage. The coupon you linked has no deals on the FS, but there is good deal via eaegis. Anyone have any experience buying through them or heard anything. Not on consurmist at least ...

try the coupon code: MACBREAKWEEKLY

I think it should work around checkout.

Ginger, I'm not sure I followed that. Is it the new PC that doesn't work right, now? Does the same monitor still work okay with the other computer? Are you getting any POST beeps at all?