Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2009-01-15 Thread robert
) unplug the power, c) place in a locked hardened nuclear shelter and destroy the key (well may be four things.) R -Original Message- From: rob...@cirrillian.com [mailto:rob...@cirrillian.com] Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 12:22 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Opportunity

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2009-01-15 Thread Nick Frost
rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience or recommendations on disk image (backup) software for Windows XP? Terrabyte, Acronis and Disk Snapshot look possibilities. At $previous_job the Comptroller used Acronis with success on a Dell running XP Pro SP2, I don't recall any

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2009-01-15 Thread Nick Frost
Nick Frost wrote: rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Does anyone have any experience or recommendations on disk image (backup) software for Windows XP? Terrabyte, Acronis and Disk Snapshot look possibilities. At $previous_job the Comptroller used Acronis with success on a Dell running XP Pro SP2,

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2009-01-15 Thread jpgirard
I use an internet service, Carbonite, which is $50/year for unlimited storage.Some folks like Mozy too.Spatial diversity is nice - no worrying about theft or fire taking out computer + backups.-jim Original Message Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade From: rob

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2009-01-15 Thread Tom Johnson
, which is $50/year for unlimited storage. Some folks like Mozy too. Spatial diversity is nice - no worrying about theft or fire taking out computer + backups. -jim Original Message Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade From: rob...@cirrillian.com Date: Thu

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Nicholas Frost
All the discussions of nifty hardware possibilities, along with my slightly flower-child whole shebang view, leads me to ask folks about their larger computing ecology and how it has impacted your choice of new devices, whether desktops, laptops, phones, servers, media (tivo, appletv, ...)

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Is anyone else pursuing a The Network is the Computer approach? Any tales to tell? Old habits die hard. I did a demo of technology for a distributed file system last week using Amazon EC2 for the network. But back

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this. In the summer I open a window. Backups are done like this: # #/home/roberts # echo Starting /home/roberts backup /home/roberts/backup.log date /home/roberts/backup.log /usr/bin/rsync -vurltD --delete

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Owen Densmore
Thanks! I really need to start using rsync for backup and possibly keeping a couple of pools of data which keep in sync with each other so any one of them can be the latest version. A slightly different problem is solved by Apple's Time Machine. Its the old day-week-month backup strategy

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Douglas Roberts
Yes, if you remove the --delete parameter to the rsync call, then it will not delete files that no longer exist in the source file system. At RTI I don't use --delete when backing up certain project shares, to protect against users' accidental file deletions. Of course, you end up with a backup

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Marcus G. Daniels wrote: Owen Densmore wrote: One example occurred a while back when we bought a SlingBox. Its a nifty device that makes your TV available on the web. Which begs the question: Why isn't TV available on the internet anyway? Why download it through one protocol (say analog

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Douglas Roberts wrote: My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this. In the summer I open a window. Nick Frost wrote: ... I pale at the thought of how much electricity is used on the average weekend in Santa Fe by fleets of

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-23 Thread Steve Smith
Douglas Roberts wrote: My toes are basking in the warm breeze from the back of my AMD64 server as I type this. In the summer I open a window. Nick Frost wrote: ... I pale at the thought of how much electricity is used on the average weekend in Santa Fe by fleets of

[FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread robert
Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an opportunity to upgrade to the next best thing.  The next best thing must still be a laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams, for minimum bucks, for all round office use and web development. Is it a MacOSX, Windows

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Owen Densmore
On Dec 22, 2008, at 10:22 AM, rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an opportunity to upgrade to the next best thing. The next best thing must still be a laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams, for minimum bucks, for all round

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
rob...@cirrillian.com wrote: Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an opportunity to upgrade to the next best thing. The next best thing must still be a laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams, for minimum bucks, for all round office use and web development.

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas Roberts
Well you all know me, so no surprise: Kubuntu, either 8.04, or 8.10 would be my recommendation. Either of these distros will run nicely on low-end (~$399) laptops, or the higher-end machines as well. You can get an Acer or Compaq laptop with 2 GB ram, DVD burner, wireless g and ~120 GB disk for

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Roger Critchlow
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: Well you all know me, so no surprise: Kubuntu, either 8.04, or 8.10 would be my recommendation. Either of these distros will run nicely on low-end (~$399) laptops, or the higher-end machines as well. You can get an

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Nicholas Frost
Well, my trusty Dell laptop HD has probebly died giving me an opportunity to upgrade to the next best thing.  The next best thing must still be a laptop, runs Apache, MySQL and PHP, GIMP and screams, for minimum bucks, for all round office use and web development. Is it a MacOSX, Windows

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas Roberts
I'll see your VMWare and raise it with a *free* Sun VirtualBox. I dropped all of my VMWare licenses a few months ago and switched over completely to VirtualBox. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community Sun's VB is much faster, more flexible, and more full featured for what I need to do with a

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Owen Densmore
All the discussions of nifty hardware possibilities, along with my slightly flower-child whole shebang view, leads me to ask folks about their larger computing ecology and how it has impacted your choice of new devices, whether desktops, laptops, phones, servers, media (tivo, appletv, ...)

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Douglas Roberts
Owen, One cautionary comment regarding Google Docs: it is a very poor second choice to the OpenOffice suite in terms of features, and compatibility to the M$ Office Suite. It's better than nothing, but just barely. I use a lot of the other Google stuff: Calendar, Blogger, Web Picassa, AdSense

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Owen Densmore wrote: One example occurred a while back when we bought a SlingBox. Its a nifty device that makes your TV available on the web. Which begs the question: Why isn't TV available on the internet anyway? Why download it through one protocol (say analog NTSC) only to uplink

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread gary
Although minimum expenditure may rule out the MacBook Pro, the price difference between it and the MacBook has been worth it for me. My wife has a 2.2 GHz MacBook and I have the 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro, each with 4 GB of RAM. Some of the differences are measurable: 15.4 vs 13 screen real

Re: [FRIAM] Opportunity to upgrade

2008-12-22 Thread Nicholas Frost
I'll see your VMWare and raise it with a *free* Sun VirtualBox. I dropped all of my VMWare licenses a few months ago and switched over completely to VirtualBox. http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community Sun's VB is much faster, more flexible, and more full featured for what I need to do