Hit "Send" too early. :) Choppy,
I've thought about the same problem but from a different angle, in that I wanted to get to my bookmarks and address book from anywhere. I use my.yahoo.com for this, and other than being exposed to a few ads (which may|may not be affecting me subconsciously), it works pretty well. It would be cool to be able to integrate personal webspace into the operating system in a standard way to keep valuable data available where ever you are. There are a number of proprietary ways to do this now, with M$ leading the charge for a de facto standard (.NET). John Hebert --- Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So it may be a few years.... > > Remember reading only a few years ago that new > technology > was being reduced to practice that would produce a > factor of > 10 increase in areal density on hard drives at > roughly the same > manufacturing cost. There were a few minor snags to > be worked > out. That result has arrived We still pay bit > more than $200 for > a mainstream IDE hard drive. Back about 1996, that > got me a > 4.3 GB. If I watch the paper, I can get a 40 GB > drive for even a > few dollars less. > > Hope my tape drive holds out until I can afford one > of those big > DVD-RW drives and media. > > There's still much we can do to avoid grief by a bit > of thought > in partitioning and backing up. Worked a contract > one place > that did nightly incremental backups and weekly full > backups > with five or six weekly tapes in rotation. One day > they needed > to find a file that had last been used three or four > months > back. It was not anywhere -- nobody had thought to > keep an > occasional full backup for permanent archive. The > file needed > was a reference, the 'zero' point values to be > subtracted from > current readings to convert to the units in which > the data was > reported, i.e. the baseline. Standard procedure, > but something > slipped through the net. > > This machine got noisy last week. Thought it might > have a > fan or hard drive getting ready to go. So I copied > my bookmarks > and address book to a floppy. Not big files, but > not in the data > partition I back up regularly to CD. I would have > been in deep > trouble without them. Do you know where your > address book > and bookmarks are backed up? > > Choppy > > > At 12:51 AM 11/4/01 -0800, you wrote: > >This is from "The Harrow Report" which used to be > >known as "The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing". > > > >http://www.theharrowgroup.com/ > > > >John Hebert > > > >------------------------------------ > >DVD Backup - Follow-up. > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
