I archive on Blu-Ray Discs
50 GiB Blank BD-R disc prices are reasonable now.
Though I wish they would make 128 GiB Blank BD-R discs cheap.
50 GiB Blank BD-R disc prices are reasonable now.
Though I wish they would make 128 GiB Blank BD-R discs cheap.
I always try to buy albums on CD and if possible from the band itself, that way they'll get the most out of it.
As for backups, other machines, some old, some new and they all have all the data my main machine has.
I also have external harddrives and USB sticks but that's not really a backup but a transportation method..
Of course in the past things were easier.. we had a 80486 with a 420MB HDD and a 420MB (compressed) QiC 80 tapedrive..
As for backups, other machines, some old, some new and they all have all the data my main machine has.
I also have external harddrives and USB sticks but that's not really a backup but a transportation method..
Of course in the past things were easier.. we had a 80486 with a 420MB HDD and a 420MB (compressed) QiC 80 tapedrive..
yeah but unless everything you were backing up was compressible you weren't going to get to get 420MB on a tape.
And in those days the king of Backups as far as tape was concerned was Backup Exec though now it seems more of a IT curse word.
But QiC (of various sizes and capacities) ,DDS,AIT been there done that don't miss it.
Never played with DLT or LTO
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Yep. I have a storage system that holds 4 hard drives, and it connects to my main computer, which can be accessed via the local WAN. A combined total of 18 TB of storage space. Holds movies, music, important documents, and they're all connected to one another so if one fails, I can quickly transfer data to another drive. I have stored data going all the way back to 1996.I always try to buy albums on CD and if possible from the band itself, that way they'll get the most out of it.
As for backups, other machines, some old, some new and they all have all the data my main machine has.
I also have external harddrives and USB sticks but that's not really a backup but a transportation method..
Of course in the past things were easier.. we had a 80486 with a 420MB HDD and a 420MB (compressed) QiC 80 tapedrive..
We never filled that drive 100% usually we had about 300/350MB on it which fit well on that QiC cartridge, still have that machine.. with the same drives..
OMG the days when you had to carefully work out what to put on a drive, and what to leave off..... I remember having a 425mb drive and thinking that was the best thing ever. I eventually got a 20 gig drive and thought I was in heaven, then you look today and it's just yeah so much bigger, but then so have the programs gotten so much bigger.
^ I guess I’m decrepit then… 4 boxes of CDs in the garage and counting.
And I just pre-ordered the upcoming Joe Bonamassa album on CD.
Cheers,
-CM-
Edit to add: Dang, meant for @Gingerbread Demon ’s earlier post. Didn’t feel like quoting it.
And I just pre-ordered the upcoming Joe Bonamassa album on CD.
Cheers,
-CM-
Edit to add: Dang, meant for @Gingerbread Demon ’s earlier post. Didn’t feel like quoting it.
^ I guess I’m decrepit then… 4 boxes of CDs in the garage and counting.
And I just pre-ordered the upcoming Joe Bonamassa album on CD.
Cheers,
-CM-
Edit to add: Dang, meant for @Gingerbread Demon ’s earlier post. Didn’t feel like quoting it.
No worries.
I get a chuckle out of your avatar, a plane on stands like a car with no wheels
In case you’re curious, it’s the remains of a QF-16 target drone after being hit during a missile test.
The first company I worked for post-military career made target drones and control systems. FWIW, the U.S. military has been flying drones of various sorts since WW2.
Cheers,
-CM-
The first company I worked for post-military career made target drones and control systems. FWIW, the U.S. military has been flying drones of various sorts since WW2.
Cheers,
-CM-
Oh ok no worries. Just it's a neat picture.
I noticed for some reason today that when watching YouTube, the headers of videos (the text below the video itself) seems like super extra bolded. I can't recall seeing it before and don't see it as a problem, but it does look interesting. 
Doesn't happen on Chrome or other browsers. Nothing else in the site formatting is different and it only seems on YT.
Doesn't happen on Chrome or other browsers. Nothing else in the site formatting is different and it only seems on YT.
Is Chrome still resource hungry?
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Yeah, it's still pretty resource hoggish. It's like Windows in that it will take everything you can give it, and sometimes even that's not enough.
So I switched distros last night. After the latest (15th) crash, my fault entirely, I decided that trying to use Manjaro as my daily driver wasn't the best choice, because I like to experiment, and Linux will let you do whatever you want. Plus, I was having some real driver issues with my printer, and with how Arch distros use the AUR, plus KDE as gorgeous as it is was really unstable. As in, things I wasn't doing and it would still crash, or stop running because something would go belly up. Turns out being on a rolling distro can be a headache if you're not well versed in Linux, and I'm still very much a newbie in that regard. I can work my way around Linux by now, but more complicated issues send me straight to the help forums, and at the end of the day I need something stable, reliable, well-tested, and me friendly.
So I decided I'd go back to Linux Mint and give Cinnamon another chance (they stopped supporting KDE back in 18.1, I think). I also managed to find a way to turn my lock screen into a screen saver, so now people can't see my desktop and I get the privacy I wanted. That's thanks to the knowledge I'd gained in the two weeks of Manjaro . Talk about trial by fire, and that's the *easy* Arch distro.
Of course, I've used Ubuntu on and off over the years, so I was already ready with my sudo apt commands, and the PPAs, among other things, and I'm just in like Flynn, set everything up like I had it before, and so far no problems have cropped up. I could get used to this.
I used Ubuntu, Kubuntu but mostly Xubuntu because my test machines back then were ancient.. stumbled accross Mint when it was version 13, so that's quite a while ago, that one had a few little issues, then came 15 and it worked flawlessly, every version after that got better, more stable, less issues so I intend to keep usiing it.
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I like all three of those, but for some reason I always got a shim error every time I tried to install them. Linux Mint didn't give me a peep of trouble, despite being based on Ubuntu, so I don't know why that worked, but it did, and I'm happy with it.
I am sure you know that you can destroy a Mint install the same way you can with Manjaro
Everything you can do with a distro, you can do with another
I am suprised at how old the Mint kernel is. I know it's a lts distro but they could have updated it to the last lts kernel (5.10) with Mint 20.2.
I switched too this week and went with Arch and KDE. I haven't use KDE seriously in years and I am pleasantly surprised. I will try to keep it for a few weeks and see if I like it.
Huge boo boo today. Did a full wipe of a machine and forgot to remove the B drive which holds all the backups for that machine when I did the reinstall. Good thing I have external drives with copies of those onboard.
