I think you're missing the obvious solution, which has two key components: - tar with gzip - 250 Gmail accounts
I have 50 Gmail invites, if you're interested. Shane "hoping to start another flurry of gmail invite requests" O. On 5/27/05, Mark Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the advice on RAID. I have discussed this > several times with people off list and they offered some great ideas > and really gave me a lot of info on RAID and how to set it up. I would > not have had to continue offline had it not been for this thread > devolving into an idiotic copyright discussion. We even had to throw > in a little dose of good ol' southern religion on a couple of posts. > (If'n ye download them songs, you goin' strait to hell.) > > The method I decided to use with my budget and available hardware and > how important the files are to me, etc... is this: Two computers, > both with 2 250GB drives, (The data ended up being only 360GB.) > configured with RAID 0 (striping) , one with windows (Because my > Napster-to-go wont work with Linux.), and the other running SAMBA that > mirrors the music and 'my documents' directories from the windows box > nightly. I will probably add the DVD backup option now that Pat has > informed me of the cost. I really had no idea that it was that cheap. > > On 5/27/05, Pat Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You should expect to be ridiculed when you claim to be doing something > > that is currently illegal :p. > > > > Pat, what a great post up until this little barb you had to throw in > at the end. Read my earlier posts. I stated that I was downloading > files from Napster until all of the yelling about the legalities over > the service started, and then I quit downloading. When Napster first > came out no one knew it was illegal. It ran for many months until some > artists and the RIAA started to speak out, and then litigate against > it. Once I knew you could get in trouble for downloading, I stopped. > But, to this very day, I have not seen one piece of litigation, nor > received any notice, nor read in the press (or online) anything that > told anyone, "Delete all previously downloaded music from your hard > drive immediately." I have heard of people that are still > downloading being sued for around $5000. One case of someone in > Raleigh being sued by the RIAA was just on WRAL News a couple of weeks > ago. I still do agree with most of you: If I was still downloading I > might deserve anything I had coming. But delete all of the stuff I > downloaded in 1999 when Napster first came out BEFORE any one even > thought it was illegal? You have to be kidding me. > > To close I have two quotes for the prosecution: (and you know who you are...) > > "Napster: It is the future, in my opinion. That's the way music is > going to be communicated around the world. The most important thing > now is to embrace it..." > -- Dave Matthews (Dave Matthews Band) > > "Judge not, lest ye shall be judged." > --Jesus > > (That last one was for you William ;) ) > > Peace to all of you and your kind, > Mark. > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Shane O. ======== Shane O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] (h) 919.847.4687 (m) 919.395.7367 (f) 817.796.2086 ================ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
