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♦ Thursday, April 29, 1999
Software to help prevent loss
of data to computer crashes
BY APRIL YOUNG
The Battalion
A product from Symantec, Nor
ton CrashGuard 4.0, is a computer
program that warns users of crash
es before they happen, allows them
to save their work before any data
is lost and walks them through the
crash recovery process, but Texas
A&M network operations specialist
Bob Brooks said he is skeptical of
the software.
Omar Garcia, public relations
coordinator for the Symantec Cor
poration, said although crashes are
inevitable, protection from the loss
of data saves students time and
work.
Garcia said the most significant
features of the CrashGuard are
Crash Assistant, Vital Save and
Crash Advisor.
"CrashGuard Assistant and
Crash Advisor allow users to un
derstand what went wrong with
their computer systems and rec
ommend what the user should
do,” Garcia said.
Vital Save is prompted when the
system crashes and allows work to
be saved.
Garcia said the installation
process is simple and uses a small
amount of drive space.
“It comes on a CD-ROM, so all
you have to do is follow the in
structions,” Garcia said. “It’s intu
itive, it guides you through the
process, and it takes up only 5
megabytes of hard-drive space.
“The program runs in the back
ground, so users don’t have to do
anything. Users will be prompted
before anything happens. The pro
gram is built for the not-so-techni-
cal user.”
It a user experiences a crash
while surfing the Internet, Crash-
Guard allows users to restart the
crashed Web browser quickly and
return to the last URL visited.
Brooks said CrashGuard is ben
eficial for people who use older
versions of Windows, but not nec
essarily for others.
“The older versions of Windows
were notorious for locking up and
crashing, so if someone is using
one of the earlier versions of Win
dows, it’s a good thing to have,” he
said.
Brooks said, as far as students
are concerned, he thinks the pro
gram is a waste of money. He said
the best and cheapest protection
against losing data is to save work
often.
Norton CrashGuard 4.0 is com
patible with major programs, in
cluding Microsoft Office ’97 and
Microsoft Office’98. Quicken and
Adobe Photoshop, and it will save
any information that is open at the
time of the crash.
CrashGruard can be purchased
at for about $30 in most computer
stores or on the Symantec Website.
Discoverer of Titanic says future
of exploration lies on ocean floor
BY EMILY R. SNOOKS
The Battalion
Dr. Robert D. Ballard shared
his experiences of the study of
the Mid-Atlantic ridge, the dis
covery of the Titanic and his on
going uncovering of the myster
ies of the sea.
“Deep Sea Exploration” was
the third and final event of the in
augural season of the Distin
guished Lecture Series.
Ballard is most known for his
discoveries of the RMS Titanic,
the German battleship, Bismarck
and the U.S. aircraft carrier York-
town.
Ballard said he and his team
discovered the Titanic in the
summer of 1986 by finding a trail
of debris from the massive ship
on the floor of the north Atlantic
ocean.
He said once they discovered
the remains of the ship’s boilers,
it was not long until they found
the sunken ship.
Ballard said the ocean serves
as an exceptional preserver of
ships and artifacts. He said the
Titanic’s chandeliers were still
hanging in the dining room when
they discovered the foundered
luxury liner.
Ballard said he and his team
have been able to excavate arti
facts and antique remains in near
pristine condition.
Ballard said the discovery of
the RMS Titanic sparked interest
in the world’s youth population
in deep-sea exploration.
To keep young people moti
vated, he started the JASON pro
ject. The JASON machine is a ro
botic exploration tool used to
view underwater life.
The project is in it’s 10th year
and consists of a variety of spe
cialized scientists who compose
a curriculum for junior high-
school students to learh about
and participate in deep-sea ex
ploration.
Students participate in deep-
sea dives throughout the world
by down linking by satellites in
classrooms built for the JASON
project. Down link sites are in 37
states.
Future plans for Ballard in
clude a long-awaited exploration
of the Black Sea.
Ballard said he and his team
have two major foci: to discover
terrestrial remains of ancient
populations that were wiped out
by a catastrophic flood and to
discover artifacts along the con
tinental shelf of the sea.
Ballard also wants to explore
the thousands of feet of stagnet,
anoxic water, which provides
perfect conditions for preserva
tion.
Ballard said the next genera
tion of deep-sea explorers will
have the opportunity to discover
more aspects of the ocean than
any other generation.
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