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Louis Gray — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:23:08 -0000

It is hard to guess what files will ever be used again. But I find
myself constantly going back into my e-mail archives to find notes to
and from family, or find the first time I mentioned a person or a
product. I now have virtually every relevant e-mail going back to my
freshman year of college. This database is something worth mining.

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DGentry — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:12:38 -0000

> Why not make all my calls on Voice Over IP and save every single one for later retrieval?

You'd have to disclose to the other person that you are recording at the beginning of every call, or it would be illegal under California law. The disclosure would make for some awkward conversations.

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alex — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:11:20 -0000

I think the challenge is to use all that data. I used to dump every photo I took onto my computer.. Now I have some 13000 on there and most of them are bad. A year ago I have started to ruthlessly select and edit new photos and to mostly limit what I keep to what I deem worthwhile for sharing. So if it goes on flickr it also stays on the hard disc. Not because I want to save space but because I want to enjoy looking at good pictures triggering good memories.

If I have little storage room in my house I need to select carefully what I want to keep. If I get a bigger house it will still need to do the same or it will quickly become a messy and uncomfortable place.

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ran6110 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:17:43 -0000

Hey Louis, when I started with microprocessor based computers (I had an original Altair) I had 8 inch drives with 256K of storage. Over time these grew to hold 1.2 Meg. Then I moved to my first SCSI hard drive with 5 Meg!!! And before this (back in school) we used PDP 8's and paper tape with teletype terminals.

Now I'm sitting here with 6 Terabytes of internal & external storage, 3 Macs (mini, MacBook and MacBook Pro), 2 PC's and I still need more space for backups, tv shows, movies and podcasts.

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Kevin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:11:44 -0000

Let's see, there is 7TB on the WHS, 2TB in the spouse's desktop, 1TB in my primary machine, and another ~ 2TB from the 3 netbooks, 2 laptops (1 from work), the 7 ipod's, the Linux server... I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Now the fun question, you back up your machine's to the Time Capsule, but where do you back it up to?