Loz

"The big issue is to keep Labour in power." Ha ha. I reckon Conservative Central Office would chip in for their petrol if they asked. They're doing a great job for them.

Which is why something like an IOMEGA (or my QNAP-T212) but backed up to a cloud provider is the best of both worlds. The QNAP having the extra advantage of taking two disks you can mirror so a single disk failure doesn't matter. Better versions of the QNAP take four disks you can RAID.

ianr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > This is such a bad idea I don't know where to begin. > > You ask them to complete your eight-page cold caller screening survey. Actually, "But before that, I'd like to talk to you about God" also works a treat.

This is such a bad idea I don't know where to begin. Knocking on doors and demanding people tell them what security you have in the house is just irresponsible. I can see the copycats getting ready now. Why risk breaking into somewhere with an alarm when you can just knock on their door, tell them you are from ADT and asking them about their security. Frankly, the police should be having a word with ADT.

There are online 'agents' that for a couple of hundred quid will list your property and this will get you onto Rightmove. Worth checking out.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My hitchiking advice, if someone in Exeter says 'I can take you as far as the Gloucester junction' > say no!!! I think that may be a euphemism...

Try the British Library newspaper archive up in Colindale. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/blnewspapers/newsrr.html

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With a Personal Cloud it is basically a Large Disk. 4 TeraBytes is 4 X 1,024 gigabytes of data > storage. > > Much Bigger than your Hard Drive. > > Directly connected to your Router. Password protected form the outside world. > You can control who has access to which folders and who has Admin control of your Device. That's more of a home NAS than a cloud, like the QNAP box I use. The whole concept of the Cloud is that the physical location of the server/data isn't an issue. Not too many years ago, you used to buy 'leased lines' between offices to connect them which ran along a defined path. Along came new technology which ran them through switched networks, which we depicted on diagrams as a cloud. I think that is where the term came from. You knew where data entered the cloud and where it exited, but what physical path the data took was unknown to you. It's sort of the same concept - you have a virtual location for your data, but the physical location is rather irrelevant.

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to have a sense of humour back in the day. Then you found Stewart Lee! (Sorry, couldn't resist... :)) )

Cheap foie gras ahoy!

I can think of somewhere into Stewart Lee I'd like to shove a hot poker that's rather rude.

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please can someone translate ALL the above into > something a non techie can understand? > Is the cloud a bit like i tunes for files?? I > feel I losing touch.............. Put simply, 'Cloud' is putting stuff onto a server or storage system provided by a professional supplier from a remote data centre that is accessible via the internet. Stuff that you would have, previously, had on a computer or storage in your house/office. You probably use 'Cloud' already - Hotmail/Gmail are cloud email applications. In Hotmail now you can open a Word document in a cloud version of MS Word (so you don't need it locally installed as you used to). That's a very simplistic explanation - cloud is much bigger than that, but that's how it will effect you at the moment. You gain: - better and more resistant hardware used - usually (but not always) backed up - flexibility in that you pay for what you use - portability - you can access your stuff wherever you have internet access, not just from your home You lose: - ability to get your stuff if your internet link is down - (arguably) some control - who can access you data? This is notable if your cloud provider has any US links. - it can cost more, but not always.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > right-clicking Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > To Bob, it will be as fast as your router!! > > Does it retrieve/send data as 'immediately' as a > physically connected drive? Or is there a > noticeable delay as your computer connects > wirelessly to the router? It will be as 'immediate' in setting up the download/stream (providing you have previously connected), but wireless (usually 54-108 Mbps) will always be slower than wired connection (usually 1 Gbps). Once you wander out to the internet you then drop to your ISP connection speed, which depends on your ISP and, for non-fibre connections, distance from the exchange.

RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nope, categorically not. > > Clarkson is a @#$%&. > > May is a @#$%&. > > That teenage-haired-it's-a-cocking-knockout midget > is a @#$%&. > > As in many things, Stewart Lee says it best: > There are actually very few, if any, things that Stewart Lee says best. The man is a smug cock and should be done for false advertising for using the description 'comedian'. I've had funnier bouts of 'flu.

I have a local NAS (one of these) which I back up regularly to another USB disk. I put 2 x 1TB disks in it, so I have 1TB of storage on mirrored disks. I actually use about 20% of this! With a little fiddling with your router you can make it visible externally (it has the security needed) and you could even back it up to the cloud. The underlying OS is Linux which you can telnet into, so anything is possible.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > As a comparison, about > > five people per year are killed by being struck > by > > lightning - but we don't run around with > Faraday > > cages around us, do we? > > No we don't - but we might take precautions. As a > kid my dad told me to unplug the TV aerial when > there was lightning. A bit OTT maybe, but better > than frying your TV (and everything connected to > it). > > Never, ever getting in a car with a stranger is > infinitely preferable to being unlucky enough to > get in a car with the wrong person. Even if an > adult means well, they'd be doing a disservice to > the child by undermining this. Which is why I said "By all means warn your kids of the danger" - that was the bit you cut out for some reason. In other words, yes it is imperative to warn your kids, but if you stay awake all night worried about paedos in the neighbourhood then you are overly worrying. Like civilservant's comment "Yes it could happen to any of our children, and that's why it's scary." It is a very, very unlikely occurrence. So, yes, mitigate the danger. But don't lie awake at night worrying about it.

Well it is about something lost (in this case a cat), so it seems the right place for it. I'd say that this thread is trying to circumvent the system, so I wouldn't be surprised if admin zaps this completely.

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes it could happen to any of our children, and that's why it's scary. But please keep it in context. The number of children abducted and killed by strangers has stayed the same for about the last 40 years - on average about 11 per year. As a comparison, about five people per year are killed by being struck by lightning - but we don't run around with Faraday cages around us, do we? By all means warn your kids of the danger, but really it is very, very (very, very, very) unlikely to happen. (Mind you, on the other hand, members of your own family are statistically MUCH more of a danger to your child. Maybe we should have a big campaign on 'Relative Danger'!)

It should be retained whilst it still annoys the Guardian. And boy, does it annoy the Guardian.

Mary Whitehouse? Did you get your willy out?

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I rather thought the key term in this question is not whether there is a social strataficiation or > whether we judge each other, but whether the word 'system' in class system is still relevant. > > Given that these days we can't even define the classes I'd say the system is long dead. That's exactly the point I've been trying to make. Badly.

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my experience of this class thing as soon as > you open your mouth, some people in their infinite > ignorance, sum you up. Ha! Even before you open your mouth they will have summed you up based on what you look like and what you are wearing.

Gidget Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A description of the guy would be useful. No it wouldn't. Please DO report this to the police. Let them deal with it. But let's not be describing people (probably badly) on an internet forum and risking the pitchfork brigade. What is the point of a description? Just take this as a warning to remind your child of stranger danger. And make sure it is all strangers - it is believed that at least 1 in 10 paedophiles are female.

*Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Britain may have a particularly pervy obsession with class (as demonstrated on here, week in, week > out) but if you think such stuff doesn't exist in nearly every other corner of the globe, you're > dreaming. > > India.. China.. The Americas, Japan, Africa.. Even > Australia, mate. But is that a class system, or just socio-economic differences mixed with a bit of pretentiousness? Or, if you like, if there is still a class system, what are the classes? Would you consider the current ABC1C2DE system a class system??

But how does that differ from just about every other country in the world where 'class' has never been an issue like it is in the UK?