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Laptop On Cruise Should I Bring My Laptop On Cruise Ship Vacation Or Leave It At Home
or many of us personal access to personal files such are
computers and laptops have photos or videos,etc...
an important role in work
and life. We all know that, and There are some things to keep in
apparently cruise lines know that mind when you decide to bring
too. laptop to cruise:
That is the reason why they put a Before booking check with cruise
lot of effort into facilities and line or travel agent is there and
services that will cover what kind of internet access is
information technology needs of available on ship. That really
passengers. depends from one ship to another.
For many people it is enough just
to exchange few emails with their Few scenarios are possible:
families or friends during
vacation and they can do that • No internet access at all, in
from internet café located this case you can use your laptop
either on the ship or in the in your cabin or anywhere else
port. but only offline
However, there are a certain • Internet access trough ship's
number of cruisers that don't local area network, you will need
want to separate from their network cable to connect and
laptops even during their probably ship's IT personnel to
precious vacation time on ship. help you with setup
This could be for various
reasons: catching-up their work • WI-FI access is best and most
if needed, keeping on internet comfortable solution, available
activities or games or having mostly on new, modern ships. You
can use your laptop wherever you • Remove your business data
want, in your cabin or in any from laptop before trip if they
public area where WI-FI signal is are not absolutely necessary. In
present. Of course, your model case it's stolen, for sure the
needs to have wireless access last thing you want is that
antenna to use this feature. potential thief has a top
classified data from your
Note that lines charge internet company. This happens more often
access and it's usually not than you would think and in some
included in fare. Prices may vary cases consequences can be
and you better check them in disastrous. So remove your
advanced. business data on CD mentioned
above, keep it on safe place and
Another important issue to put them back on after vacation.
consider is security. You cannot If it is really necessary to have
carry your laptop with you all business data on it even on a
the time and it's good to know cruise you may consider using
few things on how to avoid software encryption to secure
headache caused by loosing them.
valuable data or such-like ...
• Secure access to your laptop
• First make a good backup of with password. Most basic
all of your data on some media password protection is the one
like CD or memory stick and keep implemented in your operating
it on safe at home. If you do system (Microsoft Windows
that, whatever happens to the mostly).In most cases this will
laptop you will have your data protect you from non welcomed
and be able to recover from loss. users. For extra protection it is
also possible to use BIOS
password. BIOS is basic computer
setup menu which can be accessed a professional assistance.
if you press DEL (or some other
key depending of manufacturer) • If your cabin has a safe and
key during machine startup. This laptop can fit in use it. Since
function is usually being this is not the case on most of
displayed as "press DEL to enter the ships, another option is to
setup" on most laptops. Three check if your machine has a
kind of passwords are possible to security lock slot. If it does,
enable that: you can purchase a security cable
which enables you to lock laptop
1. Boot password - to allow only to some non movable object and
authorized booting up of prevent theft. Recently on market
operating system. can be found another type of
security cables that use VGA port
2. Hard disk lock password - to if your model does not have
secure your hard disk with security slot.
password in case it has been
removed from your laptop and used • Avoid making naive mistakes
in some other machine. like having a sheet of paper with
passwords in carrying case or
3. BIOS access password - is to such-like
secure entering BIOS settings
where first two passwords can be • Do not leave your laptop on
turned off. public places like hotel lobbies
or airports without keeping an
Those advanced measures are not eye on it
recommended to be handled by Of course, not all measures
inexperienced users. If you mentioned above should be
decide to use BIOS passwords it necessary but that's all up to
is highly recommended to ask for you to make the best judgment on
how to protect your assets. measures can spare you of trouble
and definitely can prevent
Taking a few simple precaution ruining your vacation.
About the Author:
Tony Brandis is the author and web publisher of http://TrueCruise.com, cruise portal with informations, resources, guides, vacation deals and more. For more interesting stuff visit: http://www.truecruise.com
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