On 22/02/2019 14:58, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Dear friends,
Over the past 20 years, I have had e-mail set up in the following way:
Use fetchmail and procmail along with filtering to get things into folders, and
then use a mailer (sylpheed for the last 15 years along with sylfilter) to read
and se
On 01/03/2019 18:02, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 07:02 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Jonathan Ryshpan writes:
The latest drive is a replacement given to me by Seagate; they said that the
drive had failed and had to be replaced, which they did, since it was still
under warrant
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 11:00:46AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Hieroglyphics also work well.
Ah...not so much. Remember what happened to Akhenaten.
And yes, I said I'd shut up...
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On 03/02/2019 09:34 AM, Dave Ihnat wrote:
There really isn't an answer. Historically, cuneiform clay tablets seem
to be a good bet, but data density sucks.
Hieroglyphics also work well.
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On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 08:07:21AM -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On a related topic, what can be recommended for archival storage --
> decades or maybe even centuries? ...
You, my friend, have named an issue that is still unresolved. NASA bet on
a gold-plated copper record. Researchers are l
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 05:06 -0800, Todd Chester via users wrote:
> What I have been lately, is building my own with drives
> with Rosewill backup cases (RX304-APU3-35B). I populate
> them with Western Digital drives
What are the advantages/disadvantages of this approach vs. NAS.
Here's what lo
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 08:07 -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 05:06:38AM -0800, Community support for Fedora users
> wrote:
> > I have noticed that my customers who go out and buy external
> > USB mechanical drive drives for backup never have any
> > "last". They always go bad...
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:07 AM Dave Ihnat wrote:
>
> Synology NAS--usually a 2-disk unit--using Ironwolf NAS drives. (You can
> use WD Red depending on performance, price and preference.) Size to the
> client's server(s), mount using iSCSI. StarTech (or other vendor--find
> your sweet spot) US
On Sat, 2019-03-02 at 11:23 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 3/2/19 9:57 AM, Tim via users wrote:
> > I prefer NAS (doing the same kind of thing over the LAN).
>
> Indeed. Unless one has a need to carry around the drive I wouldn't use a USB
> enclosure.
> And, if I did have to carry around a driv
