Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-11 Thread Richard Pieri
On 5/10/2012 5:34 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: What do you do? Not a blessed thing. I'm not their sysadmin. It's theirs if they want to do anything with it including selling it off to pay off any debts, recycling everything, whatever. I don't care now what they may do with it all and I don't

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 05/10/2012 05:34 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: > I'm wondering how other people in our community balance two competing > factors: > > 1. Having a powerful computing environment at home: multiple machines, > perhaps some of them hosting VM's, running a variety of operating > systems, mounting each ot

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel C.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:35 PM, wrote: > "Open if I die?" > > Something to think of I'm not sure what you mean. -Dan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread markw
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Eric Chadbourne > wrote: >>> 2. The knowledge that when you die, there's no conceivable way your >>> family could understand or operate this system, even if they are >>> smart. > > I don't have a complex computing environment either. I just have a > Windows lapt

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett > > What do you do? I do all that stuff - solaris ZFS and ESXi in the basement, containing all family photos, etc, with removable disk that I rotate offsite to safe

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel C.
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: >> 2. The knowledge that when you die, there's no conceivable way your >> family could understand or operate this system, even if they are >> smart. I don't have a complex computing environment either. I just have a Windows laptop with a te

Re: [Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread Eric Chadbourne
On 05/10/2012 05:34 PM, Daniel Barrett wrote: I'm wondering how other people in our community balance two competing factors: 1. Having a powerful computing environment at home: multiple machines, perhaps some of them hosting VM's, running a variety of operating systems, mounting each other's ne

[Discuss] Death, and other cheery topics

2012-05-10 Thread Daniel Barrett
I'm wondering how other people in our community balance two competing factors: 1. Having a powerful computing environment at home: multiple machines, perhaps some of them hosting VM's, running a variety of operating systems, mounting each other's network drives, etc., plus a backup server, and ho