Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
; the Microsoft floppies with my original copy of the Microsoft Font Pack for Windows 3.whatever was unreadable when I tried it a couple of years back. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photograph

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
s. keeling wrote: David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: s. keeling wrote: I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's Why would you expect DVD to be better? I&#x

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri January 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: so, what would be a good method.. say for instance MY system. my /home is 164 Gb, with 50 Gb free, so I've use

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 04:18:11PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: hat I think of as "minimum acceptable" backup is two offline volumes to accept backups, used alternately. Anything less leaves you with all copies of your data online and vulnerable at on

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
re from the early 1990s (Kodak Photo CDs). I *have* had tapes in every format I've ever used, from 7-track up to DDS, go bad or be unreadable for other reasons. I've also had a lot of the *drives* go bad, which means I'd probably want two or three before storing anything importa

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
ely, and all the files stay on the disk (which is mirrored) and get backed up to external disks regularly. I can pretty easily afford for any *one* of the backups to fail.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos:

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
y cool for this. You *could* use an X10 computer-controlled power controller and a couple of appliance modules to put the power to the two external drives under computer control. Or you could use an independent external timer (have to have a 48-hour or better timer though to alternate days). -- David

Re: spamcop

2006-09-27 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
trap address trivially -- I just fake a subscribe message "from" the spamtrap address, or enter the spamtrap address into the subscription form on the web. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/

Re: Apache2::Util not getting installed?

2005-08-18 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > >However, that file doesn't exist: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/ Apache/ APR/ > > APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm > > >

Apache2::Util not getting installed?

2005-08-16 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
installed the package allegedly containing the file and it's not showing up. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/>

Re: apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > >> After installing apt-file, it doesn't work; erroring out, in fact. Is >> there some missing dependency, perhaps? > >> player ddb# apt-file update >> Can't locate object method &

apt-file fails???

2005-01-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
r ddb# apt-file update Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" (perhaps you forgot to load "URI::_foreign"?) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 189. player ddb# apt-get check apt-file Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done --

Colorized ls problem

2005-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
;d also like to see it fixed at the source. And the other problem there is that /usr/doc/fileutils and the info pages don't seem to give me any clue where to report bugs to. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns

Where is the PATH set?

2005-01-05 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
aid of deciding to do things one way, only to discover that that's on its way out and Debian is moving towards doing things another way, and the stuff I chose to standardize on was vestigial. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA:

Re: Gallery 1.4 claims newer PHP version

2004-02-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
m 1.4 myself. I'm curious how Gallery works as a package; on my system it's installed in at least 3 separate directories that I know of (you need to do that to have multiple galleries on the server). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://www.dd-b.net

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
"Jacob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 00:12:32 -0600 > "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The apt-get tool, from what little I've seen so far, is quite nice. I >> didn't find dependencies especial

Re: Securing it properly

2004-02-07 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
w to do it yet. The layers of sources is *really good* design, and will make my life easier, and use less net bandwidth, and generally be a very good thing. As I say, despite having some troubles on the initial learning curve, I'm still favorably inclined and expect to eventually convert