Comments | donkey_hokey: A materialistic thing of beauty

donkey_hokey

A materialistic thing of beauty

Apr 16, 2008 09:03

A 500 gig external hard drive for under $150.... all I have to do is plug it in (Firewire! Yippee!), and I'm good to go. One of my current projects is creating a mirror of the entire Gutenberg project, for archival purposes. I hear it will be ~150 gigs. I'm not sure quite yet what I'll use the other 350 gig for, but I know I'll find a way to ( Read more... )

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ciarrainic April 16 2008, 16:03:18 UTC

You're mirroring the Gutenberg project? Wow! I'm glad it's backed up somewhere.

My first and second computer didn't have hard drives. Now I have a computer with 3 multi-gig hards and 2 video cards.

donkey_hokey April 16 2008, 16:38:01 UTC

The Project actually encourages people to go ahead and make a mirror of the site.

I use Filezilla to access the FTP site, and with our fast connection, it makes it easier.

ciarrainic April 16 2008, 17:18:02 UTC

Makes sense, the more copies that are out there, the less likely the information is to be lost.

On a completely different subject. A while ago, I sent you a really huge file. What was the site I used to send it to you? Was is YouSendIt?

donkey_hokey April 16 2008, 18:07:24 UTC

www.sendthisfile.com

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thewayne April 19 2008, 18:53:50 UTC

Heh. The first computer that I owned was a TRS-80 Model 100. I, too, had a cassette drive. I still have that computer: it runs off 4xAA (or a 6-volt lantern battery FOREVER) and I don't recall if it had 24 or 32K ram in it. 8 row by 40 column LCD display ( ... )

donkey_hokey April 20 2008, 01:56:57 UTC

If you want to mirror Gutenberg, here's the info:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Mirroring_How-To

I use Filezilla to point to the FTP site, and log in anonymously.