Having had the Mac hard drive pack up this week, I think it's about time I revisited backups. Currently, I have a selection of external hard drives which hold the backups of our music library, photos etc. We're now a 5 laptop household, which creates some issues with what's stored where and access to music files. I'm thus considering going down the NAS route. I don't need a massively expensive solution, but having, say, a pair of RAIDed terabyte drives accessible via the LAN would make life much easier.

Any suggestions? I've been looking at Netgear stuff, which seems OK, but appears to use a non-proprietary disk format, which seems a bit daft. I'd prefer not to have to spend vast amounts of dosh, but something that could store and serve music and photos, and maybe ripped DVDs to the TV would be very useful indeed.

Happy Birthday ramtops!

May it be a good one.

Leopard for "just" £85 from tomorrow.

Let's hope it's better than Vista folks.

For those of you who like a glass of the fizzy,

Tesco currently have a special offer on Mercier at £74.04 a case.

Here.


or £12.99 a bottle instore (if you're quick).

A misty morning on Croxley moor shot out of our guest bedroom too early to mention.( Read more... )

A handy hack for Google maps enabling you to see how far a particular route is to walk, or how far you've run etc on a drag, point and click interface.

Addictive..

Here

This weekend sees the Great British Duck Race - an attempt to break the world record for the number of plastic ducks travelling a 1km course on the river Thames.

You can adopt a duck for charity - I'd love it if you adopted a duck for The Stroke Association, but there are many different charities to choose from.

Adopting a duck costs £2 with an optional donation of £3 for your chosen charity.

The winning duck gets £10,000 with the next 30 also receiving prizes. The organisers are hoping to raise £500,000 for charity.

I've been asked by some friends to mention they have a stack of old Analog magazines they'd like rid off as a result of a spring clean.

Available is:

1962 - Oct
1964 - Oct
1965 - Aug, Dec
1966 - Jan, Feb, May, June, Sept, Oct
1967 - June, Aug, Oct
1968 - June
1970 - Jan, Mar, April, Aug-Dec complete
1971 - Complete
1972 - Complete
1973 - Complete
1974 - Complete
1975 - Complete (except May, Jul, Oct)
1976 - Complete
1977 - Complete
1978 - Complete
1979 - Jan, Feb

Any offers? Feel free to spread the word amongst SF fandom.

Email me (drpete at livejournal dot com) and I'll pass the messages on.

Just the thing for Halloween

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I did the Daemon thing if you want to comment. Those who know me closely will possibly appreciate the irony of this.

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