I don't think there is much of a chance I will trust my files to the overlord wanna-be Google...
All hail Google! LOL I will be keeping my data in several places (including a fireproof safe and possibly even my safe-deposit box) and in several formats... MO (as I have previously described), possibly DVD - though it is not a format I trust at all for data integrity... possibly tape, but with the quantity of data I am looking at, I am doubtful of that (I don't recall if my tape drive is DDS-2 or DDS-3). More than likely I will trust in multiple drives with the MO for my safe... And maybe a monster flash drive (or drives) of some sort. The data keeps adding up... I am well over 17 Gigs now (a couple more Q-950's with 500+ Megs per). I am sure that once I start going through everything it will drop more than a bit... multiple copies (on different machines) of the same data, browser caches, etc... But then once I start adding in the "floppy" disks... And then there are the external hard drives... <groan> I must confess I misinformed everybody a bit... The 8600 is in fact a 9600 Mach V (with an 8600 front plate). This one machine accounted for about 10 Gigs itself. I ran an Apple System Profile I can share, but am I allowed to attach files to these emails? It's a 200K text file, so a bit much to just copy and paste... LOL Anyhow, back to the data copying... All hail Google! Derek On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Dwight Hines wrote: > > If someone at Google is going through my files without my permission, > then Google will be upset with them. Very upset. So, right now I > feel my files are safer with Google clucking over them than they are > if they are solely in my little house on hurricane alley. > > Google is not a third party, they are the party. Any company that > decides they want to scan all the books in the world into electronic > storage is thinking the right way. And then to get most of the > publishers to go along with it is a major revolution in hard copy > people's thinking. > > D > On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:38 PM, D. Finnigan wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:00:43 -0500, Dwight Hines >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> So, you want away backups and google is secure. >> >> >> Except for the fact that Google now has access to all of your files. >> Anything personal in those files? Probably so, so you may want to >> think >> twice about employing a 3rd party. >>> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
