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Taken walking home at 4:30 in the morning last night.
to follow up...
I ordered a hard drive today, for the photo back-up thing. I went with a 500 gig external firewire 400 drive.
It also has USB 2, though I don't intend on using it. When you're dealing with long, large transfers of data, firewire easily outpaces USB 2, regardless of their specs. I didn't go the SATA route because my main computer is a MacBook which doesn't have an expansion slot for the appropriate card needed to connect to the drives.
I went with 500 gigs, because while still being obscenely large, it was a bit more stable than the 1 TB drives. Most reviews on the larger drives make them still sound a bit flakey, which is reasonable considering how new they still are. Even so, I'd guess as a strictly photo-archive, 500 gigs will hopefully last me another year or 2. I calculated that the largest my photo collection could currently be is 140 gigs, but I think realistically it's gonna be somewhere between 20 and 40, not counting thumbnails and crap.
I picked up a reasonably-well-reviewed drive from Newegg.com for $120 including shipping.
to follow up...
I ordered a hard drive today, for the photo back-up thing. I went with a 500 gig external firewire 400 drive.
It also has USB 2, though I don't intend on using it. When you're dealing with long, large transfers of data, firewire easily outpaces USB 2, regardless of their specs. I didn't go the SATA route because my main computer is a MacBook which doesn't have an expansion slot for the appropriate card needed to connect to the drives.
I went with 500 gigs, because while still being obscenely large, it was a bit more stable than the 1 TB drives. Most reviews on the larger drives make them still sound a bit flakey, which is reasonable considering how new they still are. Even so, I'd guess as a strictly photo-archive, 500 gigs will hopefully last me another year or 2. I calculated that the largest my photo collection could currently be is 140 gigs, but I think realistically it's gonna be somewhere between 20 and 40, not counting thumbnails and crap.
I picked up a reasonably-well-reviewed drive from Newegg.com for $120 including shipping.
I take a lot of photos.
(duh).
But they pile up on my computer for a month or so, and then get backed up to DVD. At which point, I don't access them very much. Call it frustration with having to dig up the disk and look though it. Call it "out of sight, out of mind...". But I just don't go back to my old photos often.
So I was thinking maybe I could get a huge external hard drive, and try to dump ALL my photos on there. I mean... just now I found a 1 TB gigabit ethernet SAN drive for about $200. That would hold me for a little while.
Thoughts?
(I really do tend to find I get much more use out of things when they're accessible.)
I take a lot of photos.
(duh).
But they pile up on my computer for a month or so, and then get backed up to DVD. At which point, I don't access them very much. Call it frustration with having to dig up the disk and look though it. Call it "out of sight, out of mind...". But I just don't go back to my old photos often.
So I was thinking maybe I could get a huge external hard drive, and try to dump ALL my photos on there. I mean... just now I found a 1 TB gigabit ethernet SAN drive for about $200. That would hold me for a little while.
Thoughts?
(I really do tend to find I get much more use out of things when they're accessible.)
Something I did know: Mail, under Panther or Jaguar, had a habit of not deleteing all my email off the server. As near as I could narrow it down, it seemed to be a matter of Mail not deleteing anything off the server that had been moved out of the inbox before it was done checking mail. (And I have many scripts that sort and move mail upon reciept.)
So occasionally I'd need to go into the preferences and clear all the mail off the server, assuming it was all old and duplicated.
Something I did NOT know: Mail in Tiger (OS X 10.4) allows you to do a GetInfo on the mail folders, and one of the options in the resulting window shows you the headers of all the mail sitting on the server for each mailbox, and even allows you to individually or mass delete the messages.
Nice.
Though all the messages seemed to be from just one day a couple weeks ago.
Thought I would post this out there, since unless I had needed to renew my domain names, I wouldn't have discovered this.
Do you use RegisterFly?
Registerfly, a domain name seller, is in the process of going out of business the hard way. I don't know all the causes, though i saw something about deceptive marketing and such. But ICANN has pulled their accreditation. After various lawsuits, it appears registerfly is giving up.
Godaddy is assuming control of all domain truly registered with Registerfly. But Registerfly originally was just a reseller. All those names are defaulting back to the original company. (Usually eNom).
Of course, if you're like me, you may have used Registerfly's spam-prevention service which replaced your email addresses in the whois data with a temporary address. But that service is no longer functioning, and I can't change those addresses in my whois data.
eNom, thankfully, has a process where you send them screenshots and a copy of your license and such, (not very secure,... but what are they gonna do?!). They were very clear and helpful so far. And godaddy seems to be doing their best as well.
Registerfly has been a bitch throughout the entire thing. They're still taking orders but not fulfilling them. As of last night, their site still says nothing about any of this. They've disconnected and unlisted all their phones, and are not answering email.
I wrote before about using a secure connection to retrieve your email, using OS X's Mail.app. The biggest problem was properly importing the secure certificate.
Well, it worked faithfully for me, right up until this evening. The certificate expired today, and a new one was issued. You cannot, however, import the new certificate without removing the old one. The existing certificate does not reside in any of the keychains that show up by default when you open Keychain Access.
After a bit of searching and misinformation, here was the solution:
- Open "Keychain Access".
- Under the 'File' menu, select 'Add keychain…'
- Navigate your way to the 'System' folder at the top level of your hard drive. Inside there, go to 'Library', and then go to 'Keychains'.
- In that folder, open the 'X509 Anchors' file.
- When this keychain loads in 'Keychain Access', look through the list and delete the existing certificate.
From this point on, follow the steps in my original post to import the new keychain.
Of all the boneheaded...
iPhoto -- my photo management software -- isn't allowing me to drag more than one photo at a time. But I need to drag all my recent photos to a new folder where i can sift through them. What does the problem turn out to be, preventing me from dragging more than one photo at a time?
"If you've disabled or removed the font Helvetica, you won't be able to drag a selection of photos in the Organize pane, though you can still drag a single photo.
"To drag multiple photos, enable and/or replace the Helvetica font."
-- Apple.com
Of all the boneheaded...
