Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 15:32:24 CDT 2011
We're already there, Stu. Not that I can afford it or have need for it, but we're already there, and in the interim we have multi-GB SSDs...so the platform evolves to: 1) local HD 2) external HD with mirror enabling Instant Restore <whine> A brand-new box ought to automagically create a bare-bones bootup CD. At a user-determined point (e.g after having installed apps a1, a2, a3, etc.) IOW, I need to have a mirror of what the system looked like 10 minutes ago, in case I made a foolish decision in the past 10 minutes. This is not an unlikely result. There are so many things to get wrong that I can pretty much guarantee that Im g. You see? This software has prevented me from sending my message. Earth to Marshall McLuhan: the medium is the Forked-Up Message, On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote: > Just the time involves in ripping about a thousand CDs. > > > I can remember when we described data storage capacity in KiloBytes. Now, > it seems that > Megabytes is being replaced by TeraBytes as the standard unit. How long > before we start > referring to it in PetaBytes :-) > > > -- > Stuart > > > On 12 Oct 2011 at 14:13, Peter Brawley wrote: > > > Why not just rip CDs to FLACs onto a music server, and point & click > > when we want to hear 'em? Seems to me a wee $300 NetBook with a .25TB > > drive and HDMI could hold about a thousand CDs in lossless FLAC form > > and deliver the material digitally straight to the HDMI input in our > > receiver with better quality than most CD players costing three times > > that much. Anybody have an idea what might be wrong with this setup? > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >