The giant backup job I started late, late Sunday night will be complete in roughly half an hour. Well, actually that's just the compression and storage phase. Then comes the comparison phase. God, I hope that doesn't take another two and a half days. Good thing
I've been rereading Charlie Stross's Accelerando stories, so I found myself calculating aloud while █████ and I were buying storage space at J&R yesterday. My new hard drive cost $349, which comes out to a little over 87 cents a gig. About 10 years ago,
So █████ and I did some shopping yesterday. She bought me a shiny new 400Gb external hard drive so that I could back up the 200Gb that, with over 35,000 MP3s, functions as my home music server. The 200Gb drive was also my backup drive, so last night, after hooking
The visionary whose stories foretold the Sony Walkman, who imagined virtual reality at a time when there were 400 television sets in the entire state of California, does not own a computer. He does not like the screens. "Computers are for people who make mistakes," he says. "
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