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I stuck a Buffalo Pro something or other 500GB gigabit ethernet device on my network, no redundancy at all. It's around half the speed of copying directly between two PC's on a gigabit switch.
My method is to manually keep two copies of any data. I'm not going balls-out for performance, just the best bytes-per-quid.
I've since added two USB 500GB drives to it.
Not the best performance but it has simple SAMBA shares, uses my domain controller's list of users and is quietly emailing me status reports daily.
I stream audio and video to devices around the house (2 XBMC's, 3 or more PC's).
Seconded. I keep all of my photos on a network storage drive, and a duplicate taken every few weeks to another hard drive in another machine.
I bet someone has said Photobucket somewhere in this discussion...
I paid about £140 for my chair. It's described as "Executive leather office chair", but I work from it instead all day, 5 days a week. I expect it'll flatten-out the padding in a few years of continuous use, so for that price I'll buy the same again next time.
More important for comfort is a low level desktop and mouse/coffee area, and proper monitor position.
I use Firefox because it's usually a better indicator of errors in the HTML, especially with a w3c validator add on enabled. At least any sites I built to work in Firefox and IE6 didn't break when IE7 came out.
I write lots of documents and code. I agree with the earlier comment about "portrait is better", as that's how most people read documents - printed on portrait paper.
If I had room to hang an LCD on my wall, I'd get a rotating bracket and use the display-driver's rotate ability.
As it is I use two normal-shape 19" LCD's side-by-side for coding and applications. Widescreens are a small area for little price saving.
I find mp3's ok to listen to, but then I have never understood some people's reasons to spend stupid money on hi-fi gear. I love my SACD/DVD-A player, but apart from the number of channels I enjoy mp3 and wma just as much.
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I stuck a Buffalo Pro something or other 500GB gigabit ethernet device on my network, no redundancy at all. It's around half the speed of copying directly between two PC's on a gigabit switch. My method is to manually keep two copies of any data. I'm not going balls-out for performance, just the best bytes-per-quid. I've since added two USB 500GB drives to it. Not the best performance but it has simple SAMBA shares, uses my domain controller's list of users and is quietly emailing me status reports daily. I stream audio and video to devices around the house (2 XBMC's, 3 or more PC's).
It's the taste!
We get chimpanzees to pick the tea in Yorkshire, etc.
How many sumo wrestlers live until 40?
Seconded. I keep all of my photos on a network storage drive, and a duplicate taken every few weeks to another hard drive in another machine. I bet someone has said Photobucket somewhere in this discussion...
I paid about £140 for my chair. It's described as "Executive leather office chair", but I work from it instead all day, 5 days a week. I expect it'll flatten-out the padding in a few years of continuous use, so for that price I'll buy the same again next time. More important for comfort is a low level desktop and mouse/coffee area, and proper monitor position.
Heh, no. I took six A'levels, three of them in maths. I passed the further applied maths, so I know how to apply maths to profit.
I failed more maths A'Levels than most people have sat, but still know how to count the pennies in my wallet.
I use Firefox because it's usually a better indicator of errors in the HTML, especially with a w3c validator add on enabled. At least any sites I built to work in Firefox and IE6 didn't break when IE7 came out.
When I learned programming on my BBC B, I wrote some programs out in a book until I got a printer! I still have some of them even now.
I write lots of documents and code. I agree with the earlier comment about "portrait is better", as that's how most people read documents - printed on portrait paper. If I had room to hang an LCD on my wall, I'd get a rotating bracket and use the display-driver's rotate ability. As it is I use two normal-shape 19" LCD's side-by-side for coding and applications. Widescreens are a small area for little price saving.
I find mp3's ok to listen to, but then I have never understood some people's reasons to spend stupid money on hi-fi gear. I love my SACD/DVD-A player, but apart from the number of channels I enjoy mp3 and wma just as much.