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Comment: Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? (Score 2) 468

Alan Parsons Project albums were so well recorded and produced, but the actual music probably doesn't stand the test of time.

Depends on your tastes I suppose. I've been a fan of Alan Parsons and the late Eric Woolfson since I first listened to a cousin's LP of Tales of Mystery and Imagination back in 1978 at the age of 10. While some of the albums hold up better than others, I still enjoy listening to quite a bit of it.

Comment: Re:Back in the old days... (Score 4, Interesting) 630

by bryanp (#38966251) Attached to: Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic"

If you want a hook-up, go to match or similar (free) websites

If you want to find a girl you might marry go to eharmony

YMMV. I met my wife on a free site after getting diddly for results on a pay site.

We did get a pretty good laugh when after meeting online we discovered out that we have the same employer and I'm her network administrator. Coincidence is a bizarre thing. (It's a big employer - we work in different buildings a couple of blocks apart, so we'd never met)

Comment: Re:You think the housing collapse was bad (Score 1) 917

by bryanp (#37781760) Attached to: US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion

Working your way through school is now impossible with a minimum wage job, since, you're looking at 35 hours a week at minimum wage to be able to afford only tuition - that doesn't include books or board.

That depends on just what you're willing and able to do. Granted, I've been out of college for a while, but I'm not a boomer, I didn't have the money, and I still worked my way through college. I worked full time, six days a week. I lived with my parents instead of on campus. I took night classes as I could afford them. I had no life. I didn't get the "classic" college experience, and it took me several years longer than it might to get my degree, but I have a decent job and I've been employed full-time with no break since I was 19.

Can everyone do it that way? No. But there are ways. If you can't do what I did, join the military. One of my daughter's friends is attending Vanderbilt on a full ride ROTC scholarship. The guy who sits next to me in our little office next to the server room got his degree while he was a sergeant in the Army. You CAN get a degree without going into debt up to your eyeballs.

If you can't afford it and you can't/won't use an alternate method to the traditional educational experience then pick up a decent trade at a vo-tech school. Believe it or not, plumbers and electricians jobs are going wanting and they pay pretty darn well. For that matter, a 2-year Registered Nurse degree is probably the best bang-for-the-buck thing out there right now.

I know it's not that simple for everyone, but if you can't afford college you've got to learn to look at the problem from a different angle.

Comment: The fun way ... (Score 1) 1016

by bryanp (#37565722) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?

Years ago I took a big box full of 200MB SCSI drives I needed to dispose of to a rural firing range with some friends. I laid them out on the 50 yard berm and we spent a few hours plinking away at them, with AR-15's, AK-47 variants, shotguns, .357 magnum and such. Then about 30 minutes cleaning up the debris.

Comment: Print'em. (Score 1) 499

by bryanp (#37557230) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage?

Realistically the best long term storage solution is proper film prints. I have pictures from my parents and grandparents that are 60 and 70 years old that are still very viewable. Funny how that works.

But to answer the question you've actually asked, I'd probably sort them all out on a hard drive and keep that synched up to some online system, be it cloud or otherwise. The goal being that you can occasionally move the home archive to a new a nice new drive once in a while, and if you lose that you can just download them all again.

Or were you wanting "Buy this hard drive, install that software, and sync to this other online service." ?

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