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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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It just stopped. Zilch.
Thank god for enormous automatic backup drives.
RIP Trashiba!
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Macky
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Location: USA
Registered: November 2008
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Windows live has space for a backup too, if you get an account...also allows you to store and manipulate documents and pictures. 5 GB free space.
http://www.home.live.com
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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There is absolutely no way I can ever consider using an external service. I have client data on my laptop and it is confidential.
Equally I have about 20GB to back up.
The serious question is "Do you trust an external organisation not to give all your data to your (or another) government if asked sweetly?" Me, I do not.
Be self sufficient with your backup.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Macky
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Location: USA
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I was thinking more about the collaborative feature that web storage allows for.
Certainly it would be a disservice for clients if you put their confidential data on the web. But it would be nice if a story writer and editor could access the same file and it would provide a way for writers to work together on jointly authored pieces. I have found writing a story together with a joint author provides for some great fun. Of course the stories don't usually hang together as well as with a single author. But the interaction between the authors is whats really the fun part. I think so anyway.
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is
For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Ps 133:1 NASB
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Quick, easy and affordable (the Software is free to non-commercial users) on-line collaborative features are available through one or the other of the packages detailed here:
http://teamviewer.com/download/index.aspx
I personally use the standalone packages for both Host and TeamViewer on the server and four machines on my home network.
In addition, I recommend, install and use, the QuickSupport package on all machines delivered (within the past 12-months or so) through my now dormant company's Charitable endeavour whereby we provide (and have been doing so for nearly 20-years) refurbished computers to clients of limited financial means free-of-all-cost.
The latter package is a run-time executable which requires no installation making it a timely, and simple solution, for the technologically challenged who represent the lion's share of our end-users. This has substantively reduced the number of man-hours we (collectively) have had to devote to on-going support issues related to the legacy hardware that we, in the main, provide.
Our current average specifications for delivered product would be a minimum 1 GHz Intel Pentium III (or AMD equivalent), 256 Mb RAM, 40 Gb Hard-drive, CD-R/RW, 5.1 Audio, 4x AGP 32 MB RAM.
Research indicates machines of this caliber will likely meet most typical household's immediate, and (foreseeable) future needs, provided there are no expectations of cutting edge technologies or speed. The exceptions to this rule being primarily households that have one or more post-pubescent teenaged boys who, in of themselves, are typically subjected to inordinate peer-pressure, whereby any machine less than a Pentium 4 would be derided as being garbage and more or less abandoned by the recipient because of peer criticism. Software is installed according to each individual client's needs, with each system tailored to meet those requirements prior to delivery.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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I feel your pain.
I have gone through 6 notebooks (used largely to support hardware we provided clients - see post further in this thread) in the past several years, and have now totally abandoned their use in favour of on-line collaborative tools (also detailed in the same post mentioned above) because I simply got fed up with machines that by their very nature could neither be repaired nor upgraded as needed. I should add though, that my experience with Compaq notebooks is substantively different from others in that they, with some exception, have historically provided limited upgrade capabilities regarding CPU's and other features; but, this does not come without additional cost; their notebooks averaging some 35% more than that of their competitors in our market. Some would view this as as a waste of money, preferring to shell out a paltry 5 bills every failure for new machine, rather than a grand, and the potential that the machine might actually be repairable.
For machines on my home network, I have intentionally chosen legacy hardware that provides the range of serviceability, expansion and solid upgrade capabilities we have determined we will require over the long haul.
I did examine the newest external backup devices; but, because of continued high failure rates amongst the SATA-family of hard-drives, I have chosen to remain using EIDE-based RAID solutions on our Server, which presently houses 10 750 Gb hard-drives serving up a little over 2 Tb of Support (largely intended for our Charitable endeavour), Media and shared Applications for the home network. Each of theses drives continues to be formatted FAT32, rather than the now ubiquitous NTFS, as experience has proven to me that in the likelihood of disaster befalling the Server, these drives are more easily readable in pure DOS-mode, and accordingly transferable from one machine to another with little or no effort on our part should the need arise. The Server backs up the shared drives once every 12-hours, with either Philip or myself rotating out these drives once a week to a spare set on hand strictly for these purposes.
Warren C. E. Austin
Toronto, Canada
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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