Archives for the Month of September, 2009

Back issues of the Stata Journal

I have this Twitter search saved in my Google Reader. It works OK. One recent tweet by DismalTrader linked to an old Stata Journal article about demand estimation, saved on Scribd. This reminded me that The Stata Journal has a three-year moving wall: anything older than three years prior to the latest issue is available free, [...]

Backing up your data

Microsoft makes this free utility called SyncToy. I don't know if it will come standard with Windows 7, but it probably should. It provides a very elegant way to back up your data to an external hard drive or to a Samba share. You can even schedule it to run regularly, say right after you're [...]