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Participant[quote=desmond]Just remember I am not recommending anything, just throwing some names out there. btw it is up 2.5% AH.[/quote]
Oh, I know 😀Participant[quote=desmond][quote=desmond]NAVB[/quote]
Closing price today $4.09, up 24% since this post on July 18th, great call desmo. I know, nobody cares………………[/quote]
I care. Thanks desmond. Keep them coming. I bought it on July 18th :-D.ParticipantWhich is why I stop selling stuff on eBay. I tried many many years ago and I gave up. I rather just giving it to Good Will. Less headaches and I’m doing some good.
ParticipantThat’s a killer view. To bad, it’s not a killer price.
Participant[quote=spdrun]You can’t afford 1TB of drive space? Really?
As far as business expenses, you’re ass-u-me-ing that credit card statements translate nicely and immediately into deductions. Generally, there’s a bunch of math that needs to be done. i.e., one order for two different clients, taxable in different counties.
I use Flickr and Facebook as well. For things that I actually wish to have public, not anything else.[/quote]
I have a 1.5TB drive and a 1TB back up. But I still like to have an external backup of my photos and videos.Again, I have no need to keep track of deductions. So, your needs doesn’t apply to me. If I do, I’ll probably do something like you and have my own server that store all those data. I’d go further and have it spread between several different locations. Those all would be a business expense, so, I wouldn’t worry too much about maintaining it in my house. I would find some secure services for both data and location.
The need to keep track of deductions can be done by 10 years old computer running any of the OSes that were made 10 years ago. There’s no need to get the latest and greatest to do some excel. The newer computers, OSes, ecosystem are the solution for a different problem. Your problem have been solved many years ago and there’s no need to look for new solutions when the solution 10 years ago are still working perfectly fine.
I would do what flu does and keep around an old computer that’s completely offline to do these business related stuff. That way, it can’t be hacked.
ParticipantFortunately, I don’t have any business expenses to keep track of. If I do, I wouldn’t be storing it on some random cloud service either. I would leave it all at the banks’ server. The few sensitive data I have, can be fit on a SD Card, so I just need to buy a few of those and I’m set. The data I have to most that I cherish the most are pictures and videos of my family. Those data are increasing in size at a staggering rate and it would be too expensive for me to store and back up myself. Which is why I have online backup as well as uploading them to Flickr.
Participant[quote=ucodegen][quote=AN][quote=spdrun]I don’t either. But you mentioned several hundred TB of data per person — I did not.[/quote]
I have 600gb plus today. Crossing over 1tb soon. There’s nothing on the market today for laptop and tablet that can handle that kind of data.[/quote]
Look up Western Digital Scorpio Blue.. it is 1TB for notebooks. The tablet is going to be more of a problem. Its power and size footprint necessitates SSD.Linky: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1682/1/
Even more 1TBs.. http://www.nextag.com/1tb-internal-2__5-sata-laptop-hard-drive/stores-html%5B/quote%5D
Laptop only have 1 SATA slot and I don’t want to have the main drive be anything less than a SSD. I have external drives before and the fail much more quicker. So, using it as an external drive is not a good idea either.Keep in mind, I’m not the one who have a tin foil hat on. I operate under the assumption that my data have already been compromised instead of trying to prevent it from being compromise. I just want to make sure I can restore all of my data if something happen. I don’t want to spend thousands trying to build my own raid machine and a temperature controlled room to store those data when I can have unlimited back up for <$100 for 2 years. I have my own local back ups as well. BTW, I never said spdrun are the only one. You can join him too :-D. My point is, that's just the way the industry is heading. You can either embrace it and operate under the assumption that your data have already been compromised and take steps to make sure you're protected under that circumstance. Or, you can try and fight the trend. I pick the former, but you're welcome to pick the later if you like. I won't call you dumb, like spdrun does to those who doesn't do what he would do.
Participant[quote=spdrun]If my apartment has a fire when I’m not there, my laptop is likely to be with me. If there’s a fire and I’m there, I’m grabbing it as I run out the door. If someone steals it, it’s encrypted and it’s synced to another computer at home.
Not all that worried about fire. It’s a brick and stone building, built 4 years pre-war. WW 1 that is 🙂
Lastly, billing, time-tracking, payable, receivable, sales tax due, etc info isn’t on the servers of my bank, at least not in the form in which I use it. Client lists? Nope. Media/vendor lists? Nope.[/quote]
Why are you storing those data on anything other than a raid server with nightly backup and temperature controlled server room?Participant[quote=spdrun]I don’t either. But you mentioned several hundred TB of data per person — I did not.[/quote]
I have 600gb plus today. Crossing over 1tb soon. There’s nothing on the market today for laptop and tablet that can handle that kind of data.Participant[quote=spdrun]
It’s unlikely to expect that kind of storage from a laptop as well.
Not unreasonable to expect that kind of storage from an appliance, though. If the cost of storage comes down to the point that several hundred TB of storage are reasonably priced, then it will also become reasonably priced on physical devices.
As far as tablets and phones, you’d probably keep the 1000 most recent photos and those flagged important, and sync the rest.[/quote]
I don’t see that happening anytime soon.Participant[quote=spdrun]
Yeah, they also don’t know how to use a computer. BTW, who ever said they’re dumb. I never call any one dumb for doing something I wouldn’t do. You on the other hand…
Misusing a computer by uploading info that should remain personal to unknown hands is as bad as not knowing how to use one.[/quote]
Right, and proliferating your info beyond the servers of your banking institution is just as bad. I work under the assumption that someday, a bad guy will somehow get a hold of my data. So how can I protect my self against that. Instead of trying to hoard it all in my house, thinking I can some how prevent bad things from happening. If my house burn down, my data will be safe. If someone beak into my house and steal my computer, I already have myself covered for this situation. I can also recover my data as well.ParticipantThat would be impossible. I have over 600GB of photos and videos today and most of those were taken with 2MP cameras, etc. Those data will only get exponentially larger with the 20+MP cameras and 4k camcorders. It’s impossible to have a tablet that have several hundreds of terabytes that would be needed to store all the photos and videos I would have over the next 10 years. It’s unlikely to expect that kind of storage from a laptop as well. The only viable solution, if you’re afraid of cloud services is to create your own data service at home.
Participant[quote=spdrun]
It’s only hard when you’re trying to use it for what it wasn’t designed to do. I hope in 10 years, you still have devices that will satisfy your tin foil needs. I don’t see the cloud services back tracking. In the future, I can see EVERYTHING will be online somewhere. You’re just fighting the inevitable.
In the future, assuming that the Internet and ipv6 become ubiquitous enough, there will actually be less need for centralized servers of ANY type. Cloud or local. iPad turns on. iPad pings iPhone and Macbook. “Any changed files for me today?”[/quote]
Good luck trying to back up those data. Oops, I just drop my iPad. There goes my photos, videos, etc. Also, good luck trying to keep all of those devices safe. Oops, I just lost my iPad. There goes all the personal data I have on that iPad.Participant[quote=spdrun]
You sound worse than my parents. Maybe more like my grand parents.
Maybe your grandparents weren’t so dumb after all, then :)[/quote]
Yeah, they also don’t know how to use a computer. BTW, who ever said they’re dumb. I never call any one dumb for doing something I wouldn’t do. You on the other hand… -
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