I know how difficult it is to get decent beer (I'm *not* paying €25 a crate for Finnish junk and I didn't have that much space in the car) so I drink it slowly

Warsteiner is around €3/ 0.5l bottle in my local supermarket...

Bret

hmm. I'm thinking about what to get my little monster for Xmas and saw those and went "yum!". However... no, if we get her something, then it needs to be waterproof and stuff so it can work as another cam for me.

Need to go downstairs and find a beer now... cracking open the second crate of two I brought back in August. This one's Warsteiner.

Bret

Totoro rules. I want more totoro adventures!

Bret

... I don't know how to break it to you guys who think you do no business over the internet: you do, you just don't know it.

How do you think each supermarket is connected to head office?

Get real. Your data is out there. Minimize exposure, play smartly as far as possible and protect your own data and computer systems as well as you can.

You have to trust the providers of card systems, whether you want to or not and they *all* use the internet and are a big target for hackers...

Bret

mobiles set themselves here, the computers all set themselves, the only other clocks are my little monster's own alarm clocks and the video. So 3, plus 2 watches (I don't wear one).

Bret

nope.... just busy soldering some stuff together and watching pretty colours

Bret

rsync will allow lots but 800GB is way beyond the capabilities most vendors are prepared to deal with.
Think about it:

if it's 100kB/sec, it's 1.6MB/min.
So 900MB / hour.

At full speed, you're talking 800 hours to back your stuff up. That full speed is the equivalent of a 1Mbit uplink on a DSL line solely for you.

There is *no way* you will get full speed all the time, so you're talking a looong backup process.

Someone did once suggest a system whereby you get a disk and fill it at home and they put it online. Only that way do you have a hope in hell of keeping it up to date.
Most online backups will also kick you at some point for not observing their "fair use" T&Cs.

There are a couple of offers out there for online backup aimed at 'togs, but they're not cheap and doing it yourself isn't going to be much cheaper (computer + disks + card + setup). I know I am talking about €200 for 2TB of disks, then there's the card and a PC and running it. Yes, I'm looking at RAID 5 and a gigabit network here and 2.5" disks... it all adds up to the point that I'm looking at the thick end of a thousand euros to set everything up the way I want. Is is worth it?

Bret

depends a lot on what you want, what you expect and how much space you need...

Bret

Halloween? Not here

But for that it's damned cold and I'm not sure if my boot is leaking again

Bret

It's called an ignore list. Standard vBulletin feature.

AdBlock Plus allows you to block specific locations if you want. Right-click the avatar, select "Adblock Plus: Block Image..." and hit OK.

Bret