Re: [Hampshire] sigs, was Godwin's law

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Bryan, On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:59:49AM +0100, b.stevens...@btinternet.com wrote: So... It's ok to be sanctimonious and patronise people but not ok to call people on it? The difference is that your chosen style of objection is an immediate personal attack. But personally I feel it says

Re: [Hampshire] Keeping My Hard Drives Safe

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jack, On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 01:01:10PM +0100, Jack Dunford wrote: Over the years I have acquired a collection of hard drives which I use for making backups of important and valuable data (i.e family photos, videos). My question is what do you guys recommend I do / use to keep my hard

Re: [Hampshire] sigs, was Godwin's law

2009-05-31 Thread Phillip Chandler
Talking of social networking this list as well. Another point here is that emails have no emotion attached to them. I can have an idea of what to put down in an email, based on my SOH and mood, and personal view at the time. The email gets transmitted, and then the email gets recompiled by the

Re: [Hampshire] sigs, was Godwin's law

2009-05-31 Thread Philip Stubbs
2009/5/31 Phillip Chandler phillip.chand...@ntlworld.com: Now I'll shut up and go get the kettle on, anyone for tea ? Oh yes. Milk and two sugars please! -- Philip Stubbs -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG

Re: [Hampshire] Keeping My Hard Drives Safe

2009-05-31 Thread Anton Piatek
2009/5/31 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net: I still would like to see some sort of P2P backup thingy where it split all your chosen files into blocks, encrypted them and then stored copies of them in the cloud, maintaining a certain level of copies at all times. I have seen several of these -

Re: [Hampshire] Keeping My Hard Drives Safe

2009-05-31 Thread Graeme Hilton
On 31/05/09 19:09, Anton Piatek wrote: 2009/5/31 Andy Smitha...@strugglers.net: I still would like to see some sort of P2P backup thingy where it split all your chosen files into blocks, encrypted them and then stored copies of them in the cloud, maintaining a certain level of copies at all

Re: [Hampshire] P2P backup cloud (Was Re: Keeping My Hard Drives Safe)

2009-05-31 Thread Andy Random
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andy Smith wrote: I could investigate doing a swap with someone else who wants 500G of offsite storage, but I can't realistically fit another machine in this house. Don't be silly Andy, there is always room for another computer, just get rid of something less important