Sorry for the delay in responding. Think of hardlinks as multiple pointers (filenames) to the same physical file (data on disk). The actual file (data) won't be deleted until all hardlinks have been deleted.
I don't know if there's an easy way of going back, but I've never had any problems with them. In fact, that's how I manage a lot of my media (same movie in both drama and comedy for example). That allows me to show the same movie in multiple locations without using up that much more storage.
You might also want to check out Hardlink Shell Extension, also linked to from my site.
If you can get them on a single filesystem (drive/partition), check out Duplicate and Same Files Searcher ( http://malich.ru/duplicate_searcher.aspx ) which will replace duplicates with hardlinks. I link to that and a few others (some specific to locating similar images) on my freeware site; http://missingbytes.net/
Good luck.
What do you do when a site gets hacked and your algorithm can no longer be used there? How do you remember that siteA now uses algorithm 2, etc.? I just don't see how that's useful long term.
Mod parent up. This isn't my area of expertise, but I did raise an eyebrow when I saw the "TÜRKTRUST" entry. I was glad to see someone else question it.
Around 2 months or so ago, I switched my primary OS to Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, but adds in the things most users want, like codecs for playing DVDs, Flash, etc. While I never use the Start-Search method in Windows, it is built into Mint by default, and I've used it there on several occasions.
I just began using Linux Mint nearly full time, and it's been very nice, but finding software is still easier for Windows users if it isn't in your repo's.
You don't have to hunt anywhere, any non-Apple store that sells software sells Windows software, and all major software sites carry Windows software.
As for fussing with it, again BS. I've always had to do much more work getting Linux to print and install proprietary drivers than I ever had to do in windows, and the ultimate pain is felt if you do something that disallows X to start. Worst case scenario in Windows is that I'm at 640x480. Piss X off and you are in a terminal.
Not just date, date picture taken. The last time I checked, which was a year or so ago, it couldn't be done by setting any options, etc. My forum post is probably still at ubuntu.
The cmd line is better for some things, but not all. If so, do you ever use a GUI? Think your Mom is going to write that script? For you and I a cmd prompt has it's advantages, but for the vast majority of users, it's useless.
Again, Linux pushing me to a command prompt. The point was that the file managers in Linux can't handle this basic requirement useful to users at any skill level. We can all do things at the command prompt if we can write a little code, but most users want to use the GUI.
That's my point. When moving photos from the camera to the OS I do maintain that exact directory structure, but in Windows I don't have to check every photo individually for the date taken, it's a column in the file manager.
No need to try to make Linux users smarter than they think they are though, Windows users and possibly even Mac users can be fairly mentally organized as well.
Lower cost of ownership - BS, too much time is spent hacking up config files to make crap work or work right
CLI/scripting system that actually works - BS, anything you can write and make work in Linux, I can in Windows
Most open source software runs on it - Show me anything worthwhile that doesn't run in Windows or have a better alternative there
Drivers for just about any piece of hardware ever built - BS, that's the primary thing most users have issues with, half baked drivers
No blue screen of death - Agreed, but I haven't seen one yet in Win7
Not nearly as resource hungry (unless of course you use Compiz:-) - Agreed, but neither was Win98 which is typically how Linux feels
Penguins way cooler than butterflies
Mod me down if you want to, but I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an video card driver update, OS update (Ubuntu anyone?) or had to recompile sound drivers after every OS update (Ubuntu on that one too). My file manager will display in a column what date pictures were taken so I can categorize them accordingly, can yours do that? It couldn't the last time I checked.
I wrote a blog entry a few years ago discussing how to do this with ACDSee and Fotki here - http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/upload-your-acdsee-photos-to-fotki-with-tags/
I still stand behind ACDSee, but recommend against the pro version, as I've yet to see any functionality there that requires most users to upgrade.
ACDSee lets you tag/categorize photos and videos, and is still very fast with my 18,xxx photo collection. You can export the entire catalog database to an easily read XML file, so you aren't locked into a proprietary format for life. Additionally, the ability to embed your tags/categories into the images (or vice versa - import existing tag data into ACDSee's database) is a feature sorely missing from most other utilities. Some other nice features are the ability to sort just about any way you'd want to, simple and/or filters (show me pictures that have Bob AND Tom, etc.), calendar views, and decent basic editing to crop, fix red-eye, and so on.
I think there's a trial version you can download and play with. I'm still running version 7.0, and haven't seen a compelling reason to upgrade.
There are free alternatives out there, but none possess all of the features of ACDSee, and most are missing some key ones IMO.
I'm glad you posted an actual size. I'm always curious what others feel is a large database, to me, 150G isn't overly large at all. The company I work for processes phone records, where we receive about 6M new records each day. Depending on the database (some for KPI metrics, some for warehousing duties, etc.) the sizes vary dramatically, but our "monthly" databases are typically in the 250G range, while our largest is currently just under 3TB. I checked what I believe is our largest table, and it currently has just under a billion records. It's been higher in the past, but we've lowered the # of months of data stored there recently.
We are a Microsoft shop, and all of this is in SQL Server. For normal storage/queries, a decent SQL box will suffice depending on how many users are hitting it, etc., but we built a custom distributed processing system to do the actually processing work.
You raise some excellent points, and if rolled out correctly, you're right, 21MB/s wireless will wipe the floor with wired connections for the masses. The problem is whether or not it's done correctly.
The iPhone ushered in the portable/handheld computer with internet access for the average person. You could get an add-in card from a carrier for your laptop, but most people wouldn't. If that same data plan was part of your existing phone bill and your phone had an actual (usable) browser...things get different.
If you look at how poor 3G is in a lot of the areas, it's clear something isn't right. In Springfield, IL 3G coverage is here, but regardless of phone type, network issues abound. Try doing anything remotely intensive w/the phone, and you'll see how slow their 3G implementation is. It's NO where near 3.6MB/s. If they couldn't roll that out right, what's to make me think they'll do it right at 7x faster?
But it may not be everything you're looking for. My requirements were:
1 - Mask the filename
2 - Encrypt the contents
3 - Add recovery data in case the file got damaged
4 - Ability to view unmasked filename from web
I put together a batch file I could drag/drop multiple files onto that used WinRAR to compress the files (individually), with encrypted filenames, a password (of course), and included archive recovery data. It then used ReNamer to encrypt the.rar filenames. After that, I simply FTP'd the files to the server.
I had a webpage that would accept a password, and unencrypt the filenames so they were viewable in readable form on the page. Each one was a hyperlink. There was an extra step required if you wanted the downloaded filename to be unencrypted as well.
After uploading 115G or so, my host alerted me to the fact that they didn't allow me to keep offsite backups there.:) So in the end, I'm not even using it at the moment.
My solution didn't allow me to search within the files, but it did allow me to store files on the server that they had no way of viewing the contents of, or guessing the contents of based on filename.
I also negated photo search sites, but it didn't stop cooliris, flickr, fotki, etc. Admittedly some of those aren't search sites, but they offer photo searching just the same.
Thanks for posting. I haven't tried unRAID yet as I just found out about it recently, but I've been wanting to.
Right now, I have everything mounted in XP Pro (fileserver) as separate drives, and I simply ensure things exist on multiple drives if I don't want to lose it. I do that using SyncBack, which, has been solid, but it's probably much less efficient space wise than unRAID.
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http://lime-technology.com/ offers UnRAID which looks very interesting. There's even a free version to try.
To me, it's not just that you need X amount of storage, it's also about growth. What seems like a lot now, won't be a lot in a couple of years.
Excellent info, thanks for posting it. From time to time I contemplate setting up a MythTV box, but end up not doing it for one reason or another. I'm currently on DirecTv running two hacked Tivos. For general media player functionality I use a modded XBox which I've found nothing can compete with. If you've never seen XBox Media Center, check it out, it's really slick, and plays pretty much every format out there.
For imaging the machine, consider http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm - DriveImage XML. Compare to Ghost/Acronis True Image. Makes images from within Windows. Also runnable from a http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - Bart PE disk as a plug in/module for restores.
I Image my machine every night and keep 3 nights of backups. This happens at 2am to a USB drive via the following batch file scheduled via Windows Task Scheduler:
del E:\Images\Older_C.dat del E:\Images\Older_C.xml
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Pull one of them aside, ask 'em what we should do, then do it.
Problem solved. What else ya got?
Sorry for the delay in responding. Think of hardlinks as multiple pointers (filenames) to the same physical file (data on disk). The actual file (data) won't be deleted until all hardlinks have been deleted. I don't know if there's an easy way of going back, but I've never had any problems with them. In fact, that's how I manage a lot of my media (same movie in both drama and comedy for example). That allows me to show the same movie in multiple locations without using up that much more storage. You might also want to check out Hardlink Shell Extension, also linked to from my site.
If you can get them on a single filesystem (drive/partition), check out Duplicate and Same Files Searcher ( http://malich.ru/duplicate_searcher.aspx ) which will replace duplicates with hardlinks. I link to that and a few others (some specific to locating similar images) on my freeware site; http://missingbytes.net/ Good luck.
They're Sony projectors? So it should be relatively trivial to hack them shouldn't it?
How do you handle it when you have to change the password for a site?
What do you do when a site gets hacked and your algorithm can no longer be used there? How do you remember that siteA now uses algorithm 2, etc.? I just don't see how that's useful long term.
What do you do when a site gets hacked and your algorithm can no longer be used there? How do you remember that siteA now uses algorithm 2, etc.?
Mod parent up. This isn't my area of expertise, but I did raise an eyebrow when I saw the "TÜRKTRUST" entry. I was glad to see someone else question it.
Around 2 months or so ago, I switched my primary OS to Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, but adds in the things most users want, like codecs for playing DVDs, Flash, etc. While I never use the Start-Search method in Windows, it is built into Mint by default, and I've used it there on several occasions.
BS
I just began using Linux Mint nearly full time, and it's been very nice, but finding software is still easier for Windows users if it isn't in your repo's.
You don't have to hunt anywhere, any non-Apple store that sells software sells Windows software, and all major software sites carry Windows software.
As for fussing with it, again BS. I've always had to do much more work getting Linux to print and install proprietary drivers than I ever had to do in windows, and the ultimate pain is felt if you do something that disallows X to start. Worst case scenario in Windows is that I'm at 640x480. Piss X off and you are in a terminal.
Not just date, date picture taken. The last time I checked, which was a year or so ago, it couldn't be done by setting any options, etc. My forum post is probably still at ubuntu. The cmd line is better for some things, but not all. If so, do you ever use a GUI? Think your Mom is going to write that script? For you and I a cmd prompt has it's advantages, but for the vast majority of users, it's useless.
Again, Linux pushing me to a command prompt. The point was that the file managers in Linux can't handle this basic requirement useful to users at any skill level. We can all do things at the command prompt if we can write a little code, but most users want to use the GUI.
That's my point. When moving photos from the camera to the OS I do maintain that exact directory structure, but in Windows I don't have to check every photo individually for the date taken, it's a column in the file manager.
No need to try to make Linux users smarter than they think they are though, Windows users and possibly even Mac users can be fairly mentally organized as well.
Mod me down if you want to, but I've yet to have Windows drop me to a command prompt after an video card driver update, OS update (Ubuntu anyone?) or had to recompile sound drivers after every OS update (Ubuntu on that one too). My file manager will display in a column what date pictures were taken so I can categorize them accordingly, can yours do that? It couldn't the last time I checked.
I wrote a blog entry a few years ago discussing how to do this with ACDSee and Fotki here - http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/upload-your-acdsee-photos-to-fotki-with-tags/ I still stand behind ACDSee, but recommend against the pro version, as I've yet to see any functionality there that requires most users to upgrade. ACDSee lets you tag/categorize photos and videos, and is still very fast with my 18,xxx photo collection. You can export the entire catalog database to an easily read XML file, so you aren't locked into a proprietary format for life. Additionally, the ability to embed your tags/categories into the images (or vice versa - import existing tag data into ACDSee's database) is a feature sorely missing from most other utilities. Some other nice features are the ability to sort just about any way you'd want to, simple and/or filters (show me pictures that have Bob AND Tom, etc.), calendar views, and decent basic editing to crop, fix red-eye, and so on. I think there's a trial version you can download and play with. I'm still running version 7.0, and haven't seen a compelling reason to upgrade. There are free alternatives out there, but none possess all of the features of ACDSee, and most are missing some key ones IMO.
I'm glad you posted an actual size. I'm always curious what others feel is a large database, to me, 150G isn't overly large at all. The company I work for processes phone records, where we receive about 6M new records each day. Depending on the database (some for KPI metrics, some for warehousing duties, etc.) the sizes vary dramatically, but our "monthly" databases are typically in the 250G range, while our largest is currently just under 3TB. I checked what I believe is our largest table, and it currently has just under a billion records. It's been higher in the past, but we've lowered the # of months of data stored there recently. We are a Microsoft shop, and all of this is in SQL Server. For normal storage/queries, a decent SQL box will suffice depending on how many users are hitting it, etc., but we built a custom distributed processing system to do the actually processing work.
You raise some excellent points, and if rolled out correctly, you're right, 21MB/s wireless will wipe the floor with wired connections for the masses. The problem is whether or not it's done correctly.
The iPhone ushered in the portable/handheld computer with internet access for the average person. You could get an add-in card from a carrier for your laptop, but most people wouldn't. If that same data plan was part of your existing phone bill and your phone had an actual (usable) browser...things get different.
If you look at how poor 3G is in a lot of the areas, it's clear something isn't right. In Springfield, IL 3G coverage is here, but regardless of phone type, network issues abound. Try doing anything remotely intensive w/the phone, and you'll see how slow their 3G implementation is. It's NO where near 3.6MB/s. If they couldn't roll that out right, what's to make me think they'll do it right at 7x faster?
But it may not be everything you're looking for. My requirements were:
.rar filenames. After that, I simply FTP'd the files to the server.
:) So in the end, I'm not even using it at the moment.
1 - Mask the filename
2 - Encrypt the contents
3 - Add recovery data in case the file got damaged
4 - Ability to view unmasked filename from web
I put together a batch file I could drag/drop multiple files onto that used WinRAR to compress the files (individually), with encrypted filenames, a password (of course), and included archive recovery data. It then used ReNamer to encrypt the
I had a webpage that would accept a password, and unencrypt the filenames so they were viewable in readable form on the page. Each one was a hyperlink. There was an extra step required if you wanted the downloaded filename to be unencrypted as well.
After uploading 115G or so, my host alerted me to the fact that they didn't allow me to keep offsite backups there.
My solution didn't allow me to search within the files, but it did allow me to store files on the server that they had no way of viewing the contents of, or guessing the contents of based on filename.
I also negated photo search sites, but it didn't stop cooliris, flickr, fotki, etc. Admittedly some of those aren't search sites, but they offer photo searching just the same.
I literally laughed out loud when I read your post.
Thanks for posting. I haven't tried unRAID yet as I just found out about it recently, but I've been wanting to. Right now, I have everything mounted in XP Pro (fileserver) as separate drives, and I simply ensure things exist on multiple drives if I don't want to lose it. I do that using SyncBack, which, has been solid, but it's probably much less efficient space wise than unRAID.
http://lime-technology.com/ offers UnRAID which looks very interesting. There's even a free version to try. To me, it's not just that you need X amount of storage, it's also about growth. What seems like a lot now, won't be a lot in a couple of years.
Excellent info, thanks for posting it. From time to time I contemplate setting up a MythTV box, but end up not doing it for one reason or another. I'm currently on DirecTv running two hacked Tivos. For general media player functionality I use a modded XBox which I've found nothing can compete with. If you've never seen XBox Media Center, check it out, it's really slick, and plays pretty much every format out there.
I thought I read where they had to enable the firewire port (by law) if requested.
For files/folders, consider http://www.2brightsparks.com/ - SyncBack.
For imaging the machine, consider http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm - DriveImage XML. Compare to Ghost/Acronis True Image. Makes images from within Windows. Also runnable from a http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ - Bart PE disk as a plug in/module for restores.
I Image my machine every night and keep 3 nights of backups. This happens at 2am to a USB drive via the following batch file scheduled via Windows Task Scheduler: