Ventura County Computers

read moreVentura County Computers will get your misbehaving computers fixed fast. Most repairs that come into the shop in the morning are out that afternoon. More than 75% of all repairs are out by next day. We say we close at 5 PM, but if we have a lot of work, we stay much later. By trying to get everything done before the end of the day, we provide much faster service than anyone we know of. Unlike several of our competitors, you won't need to pay an Expediting Fee for fast service. That's our norm. We support businesses and individuals in Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, Ojai and Moorpark.

read moreA short while ago, a new client came into Ventura County Computers. They had a 4-drive Buffalo TeraStation configured as a RAID 5 (see sidebar for explanation of RAID 5). It was out of warranty, one drive was dead and the unit firmware wasn't working properly -- it would not regenerate the missing data. Naturally they didn't have another backup of the data and some of it was business-critical. When we discussed the issue with the client, we said that getting the data back was a long-shot, but we'd see what we could do.

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read moreThree recent (January 21, 2012) articles regarding Apple have me scratching my head. The first is that Apple has signed agreements with three textbook publishers to sell iPad textbooks. The second is the news that Apple has announced they are attempting to unify the online databases of textbooks and are giving their iBooks 2 app away for free so textbook authors can publish their books online and be included in the textbook database. Sounds great until you read the third article, Ed Bott's column about the license agreement that goes along with the iBooks app.