PLUG Video: Brian Cluff: Hidden Features of Kdenlive

2015-06-02 Thread Brian Cluff
Presented at the Phoenix Linux Users Group (PLUG) on April 9th 2015 by Brian Cluff. Brian covers a number of very useful, albeit lesser known and hidden, features of Kdenlive he has found while forcing himself to learn the program using the Phoenix Linux Users Group meeting as a source of raw

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Michael Butash
Thanks for the pricing info, better than expected I'd say. Yeah, I stopped buying Seagate when they acquired Maxtor. Really don't know what you'll get, a real seagate, or a maxtor born to die with your data on it. They're all a bit sordid though, all the big fish swallowed the smaller ones n

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Keith Smith
I had no idea what drive farming was so I did a search and found this interesting article : https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/ On 2015-06-02 19:58, Nathan England wrote: They state in the article they use the "drive farming" method of getting their drives. I use exclu

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Nathan England
They state in the article they use the "drive farming" method of getting their drives. I use exclusively Seagate because I've never had a WD last for very long and the four WD drives I had in operation all failed within the last year. I have used the "drive farming" method myself and the drive

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Eric Cope
I use Crashplan both locally and offsite. I made a poor choice to let my brother select the backup method for this drive (it was in his server) and he failed to verify the backup method. First rule of backups is to have at least 2 copies. Second rule of backups is to verify your strategy is wo

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington
1 to of online storage can be had for cheap. USB backup drives. Or even a simple raid 1. Look at your Data stored if the cost of any of those is worth less than the data you store there do something about it. Advice I give to EVERYONE. Heck look at the disk recovery costs listed. A 2nd drive and e

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Keith Smith
Sorry for your lose! Interestingly enough the article says "The surprising (and bad) news is that Seagate 3.0TB drives are failing a lot more, with their failure rate jumping from 9% to 15%. The Western Digital 3TB drives have also failed more, with their rate going up from 4% to 7%." Accor

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Eric Cope
not at all. The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully, however it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing. There was data that couldn't b

Re: OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Michael Butash
Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing total?  Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I never have an answer. On or off-list is fine.  :) -mb On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote:

OT: Data Recovery

2015-06-02 Thread Eric Cope
Hi everyone, I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company, Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data. They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly recommend them. http://w

Re: Chromium -vs- chrome on Linux Mint?

2015-06-02 Thread Stephen Partington
Well chrome/chromium both use lots of ram and file handlers intentionally. Pre caching page loads and a few other things. Extra threads so that (in theory) one page bites it the other process should still be just fine. On Jun 1, 2015 11:14 PM, "Michael Butash" wrote: > I'm pretty abusive on my sy