On 27 November 2011 19:53, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Derek Smithies
derek.smith...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The usual media one has to backup is photos - which can easily be 100G
(after some years of collection).
So a backup solution has to be
On 28/11/11 01:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
The huge problem with 'the cloud' is that it is situated in the land of
the TLA none of which have any respect whatsoever for the privacy of
either you or your clients.
Indeed this is a big issue, there are a couple of options as I see it;
-
On 27/11/11 16:25, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Sorry Derek, I disagree.
100G over (for example) 2 years is 4GB/month. Easily manageable even at
ADSL uplink speeds. Sure, it's going to take time to get your current
collection up there, but once there, rsync will provide all you need for
a minimal
On 2011-11-28 08:44, Hadley Rich wrote:
Indeed this is a big issue, there are a couple of options as I see it;
- Encrypt data before you send it up to S3 which is achievable but adds
a bit more complexity than the sync-and-forget alternative.
I use Duplicity, which nicely hides that
On 28/11/11 01:47, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On 27 November 2011 19:53, Nick Rout nick.r...@gmail.com
mailto:nick.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Derek Smithies
Which leaves:
External usb drive
Run time machine (apple software) and
I often feel like interrupting when I hear shop assistants talking to
complete strangers. However the few times I have, it leads to a whole
afternoon of discussion, I just keep quiet now.
I am sure I have seen that on one of those 'you really know you are a
geek when ...' lists.
Re: Shop
Hi,
The usual media one has to backup is photos - which can easily be 100G
(after some years of collection).
So a backup solution has to be designed for 100 G.
Dvds are too small, and slow to search.
network based backups are too slow - DSL uplink is too slow - and the
volume of data to
Sorry Derek, I disagree.
100G over (for example) 2 years is 4GB/month. Easily manageable even at
ADSL uplink speeds. Sure, it's going to take time to get your current
collection up there, but once there, rsync will provide all you need for
a minimal overhead, given that Xtra are touting 100GB/mo
(((This brings me to pet peeve #2. Users are told to do
backups, but the sentence should be:
1)do backup
2)verify that you can take the backup media and
restore to a new machine
There are a legion of stories out there of people/firms
who have regularly and reliably backed up to
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Derek Smithies
derek.smith...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
The usual media one has to backup is photos - which can easily be 100G
(after some years of collection).
So a backup solution has to be designed for 100 G.
Dvds are too small, and slow to search.
network
On Fri 25 Nov 2011 16:32:15 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote:
more ram is actually an environmentally friendly activity
And its astonishingly cheap these days.
That depends. If you have a new enough box with DDR3, yes. Otherwise,
not so much. DDR2 mobos are still very common, and the memory
On Fri 25 Nov 2011 15:51:45 NZDT +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
The list has been quiet, time to start some correspondence on Pet
peeves,
The summer hole...?
On asking the store
attendant that you want more memory, they will look at you and try to
tell you that there is enough
memory in
On 25/11/11 22:51, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On asking the store
attendant that you want more memory, they will look at you and try to
tell you that there is enough
memory in the box for your task at hand..
I don't quite understand your problem (maybe that's why it's a pet
peeve?). If you know
My form of entertainment is when you buy a computer or some peripheral and
they try to up-sell you an anti-virus program.
I pretend to be interested and ask them if they have a Linux version.
My pet peeve is web pages that have many hundreds of images in them. Haven't
they heard of CSS?
On 26/11/11 09:04, Derek Smithies wrote:
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As far as shop assistants go, I lost all faith in them a while ago.
A shop assistant is not necessarily a salesperson.
Rob
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On 25/11/11 4:32 PM, C. Falconer wrote:
Derek Smithies wrote, On 11/25/2011 03:51 PM:
more ram is actually an environmentally friendly activity
And its astonishingly cheap these days.
I put 8GB of RAM in my current work desktop machine, htop tells me
nearly all of it is allocated. Partly
Now that others have mentioned 'upselling'
I haven't heard one salesperson mention the sad fact: you're going to
put a few years worth of photos etc on this drive, and then it *is*
going to fail, so you need some form of backup
External hard drive? DVD writer? Amazon S3 subscription?
...
Hi,
The list has been quiet, time to start some correspondence on Pet
peeves,
which is (according to Wikipedia)
a minor annoyance that an individual identifies as particularly
annoying to him or her, to a greater degree than others may find it...
You may have a different peeve, which should
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