SoylentRed - Slashdot User

Comment oops! (Score 1) 1

by SoylentRed on Thursday December 08, 2011 @10:38AM (#38302668) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Longterm Video and Photo

I asked this about a month ago and didn't see people had actually replied to that one!!! Looks like this might be an actual really good option: http://millenniata.com/m-disc/ I have a bank safety deposit box - just make backups - and take them there every now and again.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best longterm video/picture storage? 2

Submitted by SoylentRed on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:46PM

SoylentRed writes: I recently have had my first kid, a wonderful healthy daughter who is now just over 6 months old. As one can expect, we have an abundance of photos and videos, and have started to scratch our head about the best way to store these files and back them up long term. My parents have asked us (funny thing is it was my mom — the LEAST tech savvy person among our family) what our plan is to make sure these files are saved and available for her when she is older — which made me realize that we don't really have a good plan!

We are currently using TimeMachine on my wife's MacBook Pro as our back-up... so for now we are doing ok with that as a back-up. But my parents have offered to help pay for something that might be a better solution.

We could burn DVD's — but that is tedious and gets to be a pain as we would need to back those up (or recopy) them every year or so to be sure we aren't suffering from degrading dvds.

Is our best option right now to pick up 2 hard drives, back-up all our pictures and videos to the first, and then use a 3rd party app to mirror that drive to a second — just in case one of them craps out?

Is there an online solution that would be better? We are still a few years away from being able to afford the dvds/cds that are the 100+ year discs... is there a better solution I haven't thought of?

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Comment Re:Got my invite Today! (Score 1) 48

by SoylentRed on Monday July 21, 2008 @05:27PM (#24280751) Attached to: Browser-Based "Quake Live" Trailer Released

The main engine running this is the Torque Game engine... www.garagegames.com

Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs 623

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 14, 2008 @10:16AM from the good-bye-apple-tax dept.

ZDOne writes "ZDNet's reviews team have been tinkering with the various ways of running OS X on standard PCs. They found that with the right hardware components, a standard PC running Mac OS X Leopard is, at first sight, no different from a genuine Apple Mac. Special CPU extensions such as Intel VT-x provide support for software solutions like Parallels Desktop for Mac. Even Adobe Photoshop, which queries a Mac to verify its authenticity, runs fine on a standard PC thanks to EFI emulation. However the article points out that it's a pretty technical proposition to get OS X running on non-Apple hardware, beyond all but the most powerful power users. And then there is the legal question. Don't even think about trying to put OS X on your PC without first purchasing a legitimate copy of Mac OS Leopard."

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