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> Good Morning! (from this time zone) > > In today's issue, this: > > I have two hard drives, and use a surge protector. The newest/biggest hard > > drive is for work and the older/smaller one is for experiments with > > different distributions and more pertinently for my two backup > partitions. > > Overnight my work files (/usr/local and /home ) are backed up to > partitions > > on drive number 2. > > > > About every three years I buy a still newer and bigger drive. The oldest > > drive is retired, the remaining drive is demoted to backup duty and the > > newest is now the daily work drive. I buy hardware from Tiger Direct. > > > Wait,what happens to the oldest drive? You don't throw it away, do you? Can > I have it (them)? (I can't afford new drives, I have to choose between food > and new drives, and food wins)(yes, I am almost dirt poor. I had to walk to > school in the winter with just bread bags on my feet, and it was up-hill > both ways....) > > Paul > > > -- > > John Culleton > > Resources for every author and publisher: > > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf > > http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm > > http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm > > -------------- next part -------------- > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080523/34c76b1f/attachment.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:47:50 -0400 > From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Hard Drive Duty (Re: scribus Digest, Vol 2, > Issue 37) > To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.info> > Message-ID: <200805231647.50827.john at wexfordpress.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Friday 23 May 2008 11:47:58 am Paul wrote: > > Good Morning! (from this time zone) > > > > In today's issue, this: > > > > I have two hard drives, and use a surge protector. The > > newest/biggest hard > > > > > drive is for work and the older/smaller one is for experiments > > > with different distributions and more pertinently for my two > > > backup partitions. Overnight my work files (/usr/local and /home > > > ) are backed up to partitions on drive number 2. > > > > > > About every three years I buy a still newer and bigger drive. The > > > oldest drive is retired, the remaining drive is demoted to backup > > > duty and the newest is now the daily work drive. I buy hardware > > > from Tiger Direct. > > > > Wait,what happens to the oldest drive? You don't throw it away, do > > you? Can I have it (them)? (I can't afford new drives, I have to > > choose between food and new drives, and food wins)(yes, I am almost > > dirt poor. I had to walk to school in the winter with just bread > > bags on my feet, and it was up-hill both ways....) > > > > Paul > > > > The retired drives end up in the junque box. I don't think an elderly > 7gb or so drive is worth shipping anywhere. For one thing they are > ATA and SATA is fashionable nowadays. But If you want to pay the > shipping I'll see what I can do. They will be formatted with Linux > partitons, with maybe a stray Win2000 partition here and there. > On what continent do you live? > > Feet? You had feet? I used to crawl to school on my stumps... Yes, well I do have another machine that is used for Linux, and the 7gb size is bigger than either of my machines,and all I really need is some more storage/testing space. Please advise what USPS Parcel Post would cost and I think I can cover it. Add would be P.O. Box 5292, Colorado Springs,CO 80931-5292,Attn:P.S.Elliott. You were luck to have legs, I have no arms and frequently fell in the 6' snow drifts. Paul > > > -- > John Culleton > Resources for every author and publisher: > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf > http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf > http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm > http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080525/1e66b86c/attachment.htm
