The easiest thing I found, was keep the good cell phone plan with a cheap phone. If it doesn't have vibrate, it's not the biggest deal just turn it off. My workplace gave me a text pager and if people need to contact me they page me first, which I think all of them can vibrate. it's a pain to carry the extra device (PDA, phone, pager, extra batteries, whatever) but it's always been easier to screen the calls to see what is important. They leave a simple message and you know if they need you right away or can wait an hour
However, for those who are constantly working on various projects, or simply shoot lots of video, constantly adding hard drives is not a viable solution. There has to be some way to backup the material and then recover it when necessary. 300GB IDE would be wonderful, but you soon reach a practical limit. Right now I am stuck with backing up onto DLT tapes. It costs an arm and a leg to do it, but it is much more convenient than burning CD's. If DVD-R drives become reasonable, then it would be almost as cheap as the CD's but not nearly the expense that DLT is eating up.
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The easiest thing I found, was keep the good cell phone plan with a cheap phone. If it doesn't have vibrate, it's not the biggest deal just turn it off. My workplace gave me a text pager and if people need to contact me they page me first, which I think all of them can vibrate. it's a pain to carry the extra device (PDA, phone, pager, extra batteries, whatever) but it's always been easier to screen the calls to see what is important. They leave a simple message and you know if they need you right away or can wait an hour
However, for those who are constantly working on various projects, or simply shoot lots of video, constantly adding hard drives is not a viable solution. There has to be some way to backup the material and then recover it when necessary. 300GB IDE would be wonderful, but you soon reach a practical limit. Right now I am stuck with backing up onto DLT tapes. It costs an arm and a leg to do it, but it is much more convenient than burning CD's. If DVD-R drives become reasonable, then it would be almost as cheap as the CD's but not nearly the expense that DLT is eating up.