Comments for Sharon and Jacques' Excellent Blog http://www.giraud.com/blog Our travels and comments on life Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on About by Richard Newman http://www.giraud.com/blog/about/comment-page-1#comment-1285 Richard Newman Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:45:14 +0000 http://www.giraud.com/blog/about#comment-1285 Oh great guru -- getting ready to launch my business (Business cards, letter head, and the such) - what would you advise in regards to managing a home-based business from a telephone/contact perspect? I have looked at Wind mobile and at 45 dollars a month for all in -- it is pretty attractive. Most of the activity will be responding to both voice and email after the 9-5 regular job. Pretty sure all these phone plans now give one the ability to transfer the phone number to another plan if changes are required. Oh great guru — getting ready to launch my business (Business cards, letter head, and the such) – what would you advise in regards to managing a home-based business from a telephone/contact perspect? I have looked at Wind mobile and at 45 dollars a month for all in — it is pretty attractive. Most of the activity will be responding to both voice and email after the 9-5 regular job. Pretty sure all these phone plans now give one the ability to transfer the phone number to another plan if changes are required.

]]> Comment on How Are Your Backups? by Jacques Giraud http://www.giraud.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-are-your-backups/comment-page-1#comment-1274 Jacques Giraud Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:38:36 +0000 http://www.giraud.com/blog/?p=232#comment-1274 Hi Joseph - I purchased a Western Digital. Hi Joseph – I purchased a Western Digital.

]]> Comment on How Are Your Backups? by Jacques Giraud http://www.giraud.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-are-your-backups/comment-page-1#comment-1273 Jacques Giraud Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:37:55 +0000 http://www.giraud.com/blog/?p=232#comment-1273 Not to worry Tammy, I have all my 80s CDs ripped onto my RAID 5 main server. When would you like to come and pick up a copy? Might I suggest some Lionel Ritchie with that as well? Not to worry Tammy, I have all my 80s CDs ripped onto my RAID 5 main server. When would you like to come and pick up a copy? Might I suggest some Lionel Ritchie with that as well?

]]> Comment on How Are Your Backups? by Chris http://www.giraud.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-are-your-backups/comment-page-1#comment-1270 Chris Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:58:09 +0000 http://www.giraud.com/blog/?p=232#comment-1270 Burned DVD's should be stored like wine and potatoes - in a cool dark place. Even hard drives can fail over time. I always suggest the DROBO machine which has 4 bays for standard hard drives and sets up different RAID levels for your data. It just plugs in as a regular USB external hard drive and does everything for you behind the scene. The problem is that you pay for the convenience. http://drobo.com/products/drobo.php If you have some time and abilities you can save the ~$700 CAD price tag of the DROBO (it's just another computer after all) and build a Linux RAID array yourself. The hard drive costs are a wash as you'll need to buy those no matter which way you go. For those truly nerdy there is a method to encode your data onto a series of 8 1/2 x 11 standard sheets of paper for long term storage. ( It's the next level of the tape/card storage. The good news is quality paper and ink will outlast you and me if stored properly. To get the data back into a computer you use a scanner (hopefully with an automatic feeder) and OCR. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001292.html I think Atwood of Coding Horror had a recent backup failure too. Cheers Chris Burned DVD’s should be stored like wine and potatoes – in a cool dark place.

Even hard drives can fail over time. I always suggest the DROBO machine which has 4 bays for standard hard drives and sets up different RAID levels for your data. It just plugs in as a regular USB external hard drive and does everything for you behind the scene. The problem is that you pay for the convenience.

http://drobo.com/products/drobo.php

If you have some time and abilities you can save the ~$700 CAD price tag of the DROBO (it’s just another computer after all) and build a Linux RAID array yourself. The hard drive costs are a wash as you’ll need to buy those no matter which way you go.

For those truly nerdy there is a method to encode your data onto a series of 8 1/2 x 11 standard sheets of paper for long term storage. ( It’s the next level of the tape/card storage. The good news is quality paper and ink will outlast you and me if stored properly. To get the data back into a computer you use a scanner (hopefully with an automatic feeder) and OCR.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001292.html

I think Atwood of Coding Horror had a recent backup failure too.

Cheers
Chris

]]> Comment on How Are Your Backups? by RutsUp http://www.giraud.com/blog/2010/01/10/how-are-your-backups/comment-page-1#comment-1264 RutsUp Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:15:32 +0000 http://www.giraud.com/blog/?p=232#comment-1264 I think I'll just go back to putting my head in the sand! Wow...thanks for the heads-up. Does that mean I won't be able to borrow your Milli Vanilli, Rick Astley, MC Hammer compilation CD?! I think I’ll just go back to putting my head in the sand! Wow…thanks for the heads-up.

Does that mean I won’t be able to borrow your Milli Vanilli, Rick Astley, MC Hammer compilation CD?!

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