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Comment Crashplan (Score 1) 611

by Ron Harwood (#28757401) Attached to: Best Home Backup Strategy Now?

I use crashplan - it's free as in beer... cross platform and does "to disk" backups - either to a local disk or a disk on a remote system. It does data de-duplication, compression, encryption and only backs up thing that have changed.

www.crashplan.com
Security

Submission + - SPAM: FBI turns on national crime info sharing system

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "The FBI this month activated the first part of and an all-encompassing national information-sharing system that will let law enforcement gather, share and correlate criminal investigation clues, interview information and a host of other data designed to more quickly solve crimes and spot nefarious trends. The agency's Law Enforcement National Data Exchange, or N-DEx system has the lofty goal of tying together more than 200,00- investigators who work in 18,000 local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies across disparate systems and jurisdiction boundaries. Privacy groups have expressed concerns about systems such as N-DEx in the past and the FBI says this system includes appropriate safeguards to protect privacy and civil liberties. Access to information in N-DEx will be strictly controlled by the law enforcement agency who "owns" the info — each agency decides what data to share, with whom, and under what circumstances. [spam URL stripped]"
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Submission + - Auctioning off his name to raise capital (holdmyrecord.com)

Submitted by
BlackNova
BlackNova writes: "Stan Oleynick is auctioning off the opportunity to change his name to your company name and further guarantees that he will set a world record with his new name or he'll give you your money back. But wait, that's not all — he's also offering up a 10% equity stake in the internet project he's doing this to raise money for."
Data Storage

Submission + - Hard Drives Should Meet Rated Capacity (petitiononline.com) 1

Submitted by
Maniac-X
Maniac-X writes: "A recent petition directed toward hard drive manufacturers telling them that consumers want more accurate drive capacity ratings.

Rate capacity in binary, instead of decimal. We want to take a hard drive home and format it to rated capacity. We're all tired of taking home a rated 320GB drive, and having it format to 298GB. This margin of error is simply unacceptable.
"
Music

Submission + - Publisher of Eminem songs files suit against Apple

Submitted by
mattpm
mattpm writes: "CBC reports that 'the publisher of rapper Eminem's music is suing computer giant Apple Inc. for selling downloads of the musician's songs without permission. While Apple has an agreement with Universal Music Group, the record company that owns the recordings, it doesn't have a deal with the publishers — Eight Mile Style — who own the rights to the scores and lyrics.' Which raises the question yet again: who actually owns the rights to published music and what slice of the profits are the artists actually getting from on-line sales(despite Eminem not exactly being a starving artist)?"
Privacy

Submission + - Congress, don't to rubber stamp Bush's wiretapping (pressesc.com)

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amigoro
amigoro writes: "Rights groups called on the Congress resist Bush administration's attempts to rush through legislation allowing the President and the Attorney General to to intercept any international telephone call or e-mail made by any American citizen, without a court order or requiring that the targeted communication involve terrorism or other dangerous conduct."
Microsoft

Submission + - Chileans protest Microsoft deal with Government

Submitted by
chileno
chileno writes: "Last May, the Chilean Government got a 40% discount on licenses of Microsoft products. The trade-off? A deal where Microsoft will provide a "Digital home" to all citizens, based on Live. Things can get worse: they'll set the comunication standard with the government not only for PC's but also to mobile phones. Since this deal was known, there's been a reaction on the web never seen before. A site to coordinate all this efforts is up, including channels in Flickr, You Tube and Last.FM. Even a letter to the President is on the way. You can sign it here ."
Linux Business

Submission + - thinkgeek sells toy: code for it, make money. (thinkgeek.com)

Submitted by
dsmall
dsmall writes: "ThinkGeek's latest catalog has the Neuros (see them at http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/8af5/ )... The Neuros, a media device with a twist. It arrives without all the code to make it fully work. If you submit the code to make it work, you get paid.
From Neuros: "These bounties are a community style thing that is just a modest way to put a little money back into the Neuros community as a token for our appreciation. We hope and expect for people to collaborate, split bounties and credit and share information, etc. The deliverables and rules are sketchy and the interpretation is completely subject to the whim of the selection committee"
YouTube or Google video Browser Bounty: $1000
Flickr Photo Browser Bounty: $600
Implement a wireless remote using a WiFi PDA (or PSP) as the remote. Bounty: $500
TiVo style functionality for radio. Hook up the OSD to a FM/AM or Satellite receiver and do timed recordings or FF/RW and Pause Live Radio. Bounty: $700
Voip on the OSD. Plug a USB phone into the OSD and make calls without touching any of your PCs. Bounty: $500"
Might be interesting if you have too much time on your hands and are looking to make a quick Euro."
The Almighty Buck

Submission + - Apple Stores to charge entrance fee

Submitted by
BlackNova
BlackNova writes: "Apple Stores may soon start charging an entrance fee to keep out the iPhone gawkers and improve store security/safety. The $5 charged will be applicable against any purchases made — assuming you buy something. Really, they just want the 'right kind of people' coming into the store: "By 'right kind of people' I mean true Apple customers with money, willing to pay just to look at our newest wares,"says Vince Sciopiano, vice president for Apple's retail stores."
PC Games (Games)

Submission + - Proof Duke Nukem Forever Lives

Submitted by Dr. Eggman
Dr. Eggman writes: 1up.com is reporting a single in-game screenshot posted by 3D realms President George Broussard at the Shacknews message forums. The image in question was originally discovered on the 3D Realms Employer profile on Gamasutra along with their current unfilled Job position for Senior and Junior level progammers with expansive knowledge of C++, for PC and Xbox 360 platforms. Must have passion for making and playing over-the-top action games.
Education

Submission + - Is a CS degree any good for an old guy?

Submitted by mbuckingham
mbuckingham writes: I'm 39 and have been programming for 20 years. By "programming", I'm talking about the usual business applications type of stuff. Easy stuff really. I went to college for a while, but never got my degree. It bugs me that I've never completed my degree, but since I've always had decent jobs, it hasn't really mattered too much. I'm really bored with what I do every day though. Anyway, I'm thinking about going back, getting the degree, because I think it will make it possible to move towards doing some more advanced system-level type stuff. Does this make sense? Would a CS degree or a Computer Engineering degree be better? I know I don't want a MIS degree, because that would be rehashing everything I'm already bored with.

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