OT: Archiving Photos (was OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah))

2007-05-27 Thread Robert Marella
On Sun, 27 May 2007 09:43:10 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-May-25 23:11:01 +0200, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CD-R and DVD±R might not be the most reliable form of long term backup, though. I've seen test reports in magazines indicating significant corruption

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-25 23:11:01 +0200, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CD-R and DVD±R might not be the most reliable form of long term backup, though. I've seen test reports in magazines indicating significant corruption after as little as two years. ... I like USB harddisks for backups, Media

OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-) Best regards Oliver What is Krap to one can be Komfort to another. ;-) I assist a photographer fiend by maintaining her computers, network and

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-) Best regards Oliver What is Krap to one can be Komfort to another. ;-)

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:02:13 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 09:46:35AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:30:00 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, I am _not_ using k3b or any other krap. ;-)

Re: OT: In defense of a GUI (was: atapicam, blah, blah)

2007-05-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:40:31AM -1000, Robert Marella wrote: dirsplit (http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirsplit/) will do the trick nicely. Roland Roland Thanks for the reply. Mea culpa, I failed to mention that the individual file cannot be spread over different media. After