Re: [sheflug] Backups and Instant messaging

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It's time for me to buy a new computer as my trusty Athlon 900 can't  
> really cope with the pictures from my digital camera. I've picked out a  
> box to buy, but I need to rethink my backup strategy now that I have  
> more than a CD's worth of photos. Plan A is to start archiving in a  
> logical manner onto DVD. Plan B being SW raid which has the advantage  
> of being easy once setup but useless against theft. What do you all  
> actually use to backup your data and does it work well?
I backup to an external USB harddrive (a normal ide harddrive in a box
 with a USB connection). It seems like a reasonable way  of doing it,
  but I've not yet had cause to need it. Obviously no good against the
 house burning down, and hopefully the surge protector will stop a
 spike destroying all the hardware that's plugged into the same set of sockets

All the best

David


> Secondly I'm thinking of getting a camera so that I can use instant  
> messaging to video chat with my apple owning friends. Sadly the SW side  
> of things looks grim, gaim used to be better than the official win32  
> clients but development seems to have stopped, is there a client out  
> there which will easily interface with the AIM network nd which  
> supports video?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Simon
> 
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