House Plans and Designs for a Perfect Home
Log Home Plans
Log Home Plans the rustic log cabin house style where among the earliest types of house designed and built in America. Sturdy and easy to construct, log homes could be built by hand and provide shelter in a matter of a few days. The house style originated from Swedish immigrants who introduced their home design customs to the New World. As these log home floor plans attest, today’s log cabin home designs are much more elaborate than the one-room dwellings of the past, yet, you’ll discover the same charming rustic details.
Ranch house plans
Ranch House Plans and Ranch Style Home Floor Plans For the realist, nothing is more practical than the ranch style home. A bevy of convenient features make ranch home plans the choice for young buyers and retirees. One-story floor plans are safe for children and make rooms more accessible to persons of all abilities. Efficient space arrangements appeal to budget-conscious buyers. Open floor plans and segregated living areas grant light and privacy where desired. As this collection reveals, today’s ranch home designs are a far cry from the unadorned rambler house plans of the 1950s. From Colonial to Mediterranean house styles, you’re sure to find the perfect home plan for you.
Bungalow House Plans
A house style inspired by the simple thatched-roof huts of British India, the American bungalow home design embraces simplicity and efficiency. Bungalow house designs are characterized by their low-pitch gabled roofs with wide overhangs, often featuring exposed beams. Modest front porches and a long, rectangular shape that made them ideal for city lots also are characteristic of traditional home designs in the bungalow style. In this collection of bungalow house plans you’ll discover the same understated charm that you love in classic bungalow homes, yet with updated
floor plans and contemporary amenities. You’re sure to love our growing collection of craftsman bungalow style home plans.
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Laptop Theft & History
You can take several key steps to protect both your laptops and your data. By adopting these measures, you'll greatly reduce your risk of losing key hardware and data. Laptops have become increasingly attractive targets for identity thieves, too. A 2006 Ponemon Institute study reported an 81 percent increase in the number of companies reporting stolen laptops between 2005 and 2006.
Laptops have become increasingly attractive targets for identity thieves, too. A 2006 Ponemon Institute study reported an 81 percent increase in the number of companies reporting stolen laptops between 2005 and 2006. Even notebooks that never leave the office can be targets, as many thefts are inside jobs.
Track Your Laptop With an ID
The first step is to slap an ID tag on each laptop, BlackBerry, digital camera, and USB key your business owns, and record it with a recovery service. An astonishingly large number of businesses never record even the serial numbers of their equipment, police say, making it impossible for authorities to reunite found items with their rightful owners.
he services have you register each item on the Web, with identifying information; then they contact you to arrange return if an item is found. The price is nominal, usually around $5-$10 per label, with quantity discounts. Vendors that offer labeling and recovery services include ArmorTag, BoomerangIt, StuffBak, TrackItBack, YouGetItBack.com, and zReturn.
Rely on Recovery Software
If a thief steals your laptop, tracking and recovery software can help you get it back. Absolute Software's ComputraceComplete ($50 per year), Brigadoon's PC PhoneHome ($30 lifetime), Inspice's Inspice Trace ($30/year), XTool's Laptop Tracker ($40 per year for Small Business Edition) and zTrace Technologies' zTrace Gold ($50 per year) are tracking utilities that connect periodically to a central server.
Back Up and Encrypt Your Data
Encrypting data on laptops and on USB drives is relatively easy these days, thanks to numerous inexpensive security tools (see "Lock Down the Data on Your Portable Drives") that provide military-grade encryption. But these programs are only as effective as their users allow them to be, so make sure that your business's employees understand how to take care of their equipment. For instance, instead of letting a laptop sleep during travel, they should shut it down completely, thereby locking the drive.
Educate Your Employees
* Never leave your laptop unguarded in a hotel or conference room. Protect it by using a cable lock or a hotel safe. If neither of these is available, take the laptop with you.
* At the office, lock portables in a special drawer or safe when you go home for the night.
* Never leave a laptop bag on a car seat in plain view. Always lock it in the trunk--but do so out of the sight of others in the parking lot.
* Triple-guard your bag at airports (one of the most common theft locations). When waiting at a gate, place your bag between your feet.
Laptops have become increasingly attractive targets for identity thieves, too. A 2006 Ponemon Institute study reported an 81 percent increase in the number of companies reporting stolen laptops between 2005 and 2006. Even notebooks that never leave the office can be targets, as many thefts are inside jobs.
Track Your Laptop With an ID
The first step is to slap an ID tag on each laptop, BlackBerry, digital camera, and USB key your business owns, and record it with a recovery service. An astonishingly large number of businesses never record even the serial numbers of their equipment, police say, making it impossible for authorities to reunite found items with their rightful owners.
he services have you register each item on the Web, with identifying information; then they contact you to arrange return if an item is found. The price is nominal, usually around $5-$10 per label, with quantity discounts. Vendors that offer labeling and recovery services include ArmorTag, BoomerangIt, StuffBak, TrackItBack, YouGetItBack.com, and zReturn.
Rely on Recovery Software
If a thief steals your laptop, tracking and recovery software can help you get it back. Absolute Software's ComputraceComplete ($50 per year), Brigadoon's PC PhoneHome ($30 lifetime), Inspice's Inspice Trace ($30/year), XTool's Laptop Tracker ($40 per year for Small Business Edition) and zTrace Technologies' zTrace Gold ($50 per year) are tracking utilities that connect periodically to a central server.
Back Up and Encrypt Your Data
Encrypting data on laptops and on USB drives is relatively easy these days, thanks to numerous inexpensive security tools (see "Lock Down the Data on Your Portable Drives") that provide military-grade encryption. But these programs are only as effective as their users allow them to be, so make sure that your business's employees understand how to take care of their equipment. For instance, instead of letting a laptop sleep during travel, they should shut it down completely, thereby locking the drive.
Educate Your Employees
* Never leave your laptop unguarded in a hotel or conference room. Protect it by using a cable lock or a hotel safe. If neither of these is available, take the laptop with you.
* At the office, lock portables in a special drawer or safe when you go home for the night.
* Never leave a laptop bag on a car seat in plain view. Always lock it in the trunk--but do so out of the sight of others in the parking lot.
* Triple-guard your bag at airports (one of the most common theft locations). When waiting at a gate, place your bag between your feet.
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