It was not mentioned how much would need to be backed up, but I've used my Digital Video camera as a backup tape device for my important data. For me it's a very nice solution since now I use the same equipment for home videos and Gnomemeeting as well. Talk about a starving hacker/wife approved budget...:-)
Good things with DV tapes are that they come with ~10GB of storage space and 3.5MB/s speed. Works very nicely with dvbackup
Of course DV tapes are a non-standard solution, longer tapes do not exist yet and the solution does not scale - but hey, this is advice you find on slashdot.
I could not believe what I read in the newspaper about nurseries needing to pay Teosto, so I decided to just ignore it. Then I read it on Slashdot...
I just did something I normally never do: I called Teosto and complained. I had a nice chat with the lady in the other end of the phone, and she promised to take my complaints further. Cities have BTW paid a certain sum based on the city's population to Teosto every year since 1979, which includes all activities maintained by the city, i.e. elderly people's homes, hospitals, etc. *Private* nurseries have not been included so far, and that's what they're targetting now.
If someone else wants to call and complain, be polite if you want to get your message through (and speak fluently Finnish and preferrably live in Finland as well). Oh, and the next person to call remembers to say that musicians live (I hope!) mostly on the income of their recording contracts and not on Teosto sponsorings.
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Hmm, is that hell freezing over outside?
Sorry, no. That already happened when Finland won the Eurovision song contest a few years ago.
Good things with DV tapes are that they come with ~10GB of storage space and 3.5MB/s speed. Works very nicely with dvbackup
Of course DV tapes are a non-standard solution, longer tapes do not exist yet and the solution does not scale - but hey, this is advice you find on slashdot.
-pfl
Hey!
Where are Cage & McBeal?
What's the deal with Fish and that other guy? That "Richardson" seems suspiciously like "Richard"...
I could not believe what I read in the newspaper about nurseries needing to pay Teosto, so I decided to just ignore it. Then I read it on Slashdot...
I just did something I normally never do: I called Teosto and complained. I had a nice chat with the lady in the other end of the phone, and she promised to take my complaints further. Cities have BTW paid a certain sum based on the city's population to Teosto every year since 1979, which includes all activities maintained by the city, i.e. elderly people's homes, hospitals, etc. *Private* nurseries have not been included so far, and that's what they're targetting now.
If someone else wants to call and complain, be polite if you want to get your message through (and speak fluently Finnish and preferrably live in Finland as well). Oh, and the next person to call remembers to say that musicians live (I hope!) mostly on the income of their recording contracts and not on Teosto sponsorings.
-pfl
> And radio contest, but never on a weblog!
So you made it to the Guinnes book of world records at the same time?
Congrats!
-pfl