Do I do anything but complain these days?

[cyrano]

I'm utter crap at this whole 'purging' thing. There's my initial resistance to getting rid of things. I mean, I got them for a reason, right? Even if I'm no longer certain what that reason was, I started out with one and I'll probably remember it right after I've tossed the terribly useful item out. And the memory aspect. If I have a memory associated with the object, there's a strong chance that memory goes away with it.
So I've gotten to the point where I'm actually getting rid of things. And I can't just throw stuff away. I need to try and find somewhere useful for it to go. Which is hard for things like VHS tapes or electronic equipment that I can't remember what it does. And then, since I am a child of the internet, I find people far away who can use stuff. Which means I have to get boxes of appropriate sizes, and packing material, and then hie me down to the post office. And given that I still have CDs for Satanya from the last time I purged, that should indicate how well that goes.
So, while I'm here, does anybody have a use for a metric assload of Legend of the Five Rings and On The Edge CCTG cards? Or a pair of pocketwatches that may need new batteries or may need repairing, or this.... whatever the hell this thing is?

Comments

[reluctantgenius.livejournal.com]

or, if you're really concerned, set up a RAID 5 array. You'll need three (or more) cheap hard drives and a controller, plus the box and wires to hold them. However, you'll have data redundancy and be able to recover anything that gets lost if one of the hard drives fails.

RAID is not the answer

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

I'd get two external drives, and keep them in sync. ZFS would be nice, but probably a bit much. Ideally, don't keep both at home.

RAID does not help if the OS writes junk to the FS, only from a drive dieing.

Re: RAID is not the answer

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

You guys are saying lots of words!