Cute book Bill. Effective as a quick publication on a single topic, but pricey. Glad to see the dogs having fun... Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:59 AM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S, I bought a Drobo a while back for external back-ups. I fed it 3x750gb > Seagates and dropped a whole bunch of stuff onto it, some 375gb worth of > stuff eventually. I was looking for something yestrday and realized that I > had put a whole bunch of duplicate files on it by dropping entire back ups > onto it rather than doing incremental additions so... > I downloaded a duplicate detection program and found something like 3400 > duplicate files, which I nuked. > Now the Drobo has about 250gb of used space, but it took it almost 3 hours > of chugging away to get itself straight again. > I presume it defragged itself and did some file shuffling. > Eventually, the noise of multiple hard drives ticking away becomes as > annoying as the neighbour's dog barking at 3 in the morning. > I'm still happy with the thing, but I wish I had waited the month or so for > the Firewire version. > And would have, if I had known about it..... > > And..... > I published a small book using the good folks over at blurb.com. > http://www.blurb.com/books/384637 > I ordered a copy of it as a trial, and am very impressed with their work. It > wasn't really cheap, to be sure, but the quality is definitely there. > What I see on my monitor is pretty much exactly what they published in the > book. > > William Robb > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
