Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's like an external harddisc where you can store whatever you want. But this harddisc is a few 1000 miles away form your desk, and you access it via the net. It's pretty safe and stable (and by pretty I mean 100%), bound to be up to date and backed up all the time since it's hosted by Apple (this is my personal opinion, ofcourse), and you only pay for the space you need. So for archiving stuff, it's a good and affordable solution: you just outsource the archiving, backing up, keeping your (limitless) discspace up-to-date part of the job. The only thing you need is a high speed internet connection, but seeing you have chello this is not a problem, and cable or ADSL are becoming more and more standard. .Mac is comparable with the .net initiative of Microsoft: the idea is to make of your desktop or laptop just a "service station", and to have all software and discspace on an external server. Use of software etc. would be charged per minute or hour, etc. I never believed in this, because it makes me think somebody else has control over whatever I want to do, but for archiving unconfidential information it's a good alternative. Especially when you're travelling a lot and want to have access to your photos or docs without needing your own laptop. --- > From: <n.wajsman@chello.nl> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:59:24 +0200 > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Re: www.mac.com > > What exactly would it do for me? > >> >> van: Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> >> datum: 2004/08/03 di PM 02:08:08 MEST >> aan: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> onderwerp: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 31: Digital Copenhagen >> >> Ever considered .mac (www.mac.com)? >> >>> From: <n.wajsman@chello.nl> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:41:06 +0200 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 31: Digital Copenhagen >>> >>> Thanks, Richard! >>> >>> The archiving issue is one I have thought a lot about. Right now, my >>> images >>> reside on the internal hard disk in the computer and a backup copy is on >>> an >>> external Firewire hard disk which is only on when things are being >>> written >>> to >>> it. Once I have enough data to fill a DVD I do another backup onto a DVD. >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >