Comments | kneeshooter: Massive Catch-up

kneeshooter

Massive Catch-up

Jul 28, 2005 08:38

This has, in some respects, been a long time coming. For various reasons I had a falling out with my PC, and was in such a navel-gazing self-indulgent mopey mood that the last thing I wanted to do was share it with the unwashed LJ masses.

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kantti July 28 2005, 08:18:17 UTC

Never underestimate the importance of a good backup regime.

(My nearly-completed-years-worth-of-work undergrad dissertation was on my computer, un-backed-up, and my flat got broken into. By some miracle they stole the computer with no data on it, and left the one with the dissertation, essays, and reports on it. Even now, thinking about it makes me shudder.)

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 08:22:50 UTC

Yeah. It's the volume that gets me at the moment. The "long story" involves the recovery from the damaged HD taking about 36 hours at a time - and one of the new IDE drives I bought only lasting 5 days (time enough for me to recover the lost data onto it and clean it up) before it completely died.

Needless to say - I will be more rigorous - at least for a couple of months.

Now, I must get my "b" copy of the archived data offsite...

kantti July 28 2005, 08:33:25 UTC

Urgh. What a nuisance.

At work my machine backs itself up onto a server once a day, but it's harder to make that kind of system work at home. I don't have a home computer, so I don't have to worry about it yet. :)

Totally different topic... kathbad July 28 2005, 08:58:10 UTC

Hi there kantti

Bang Bar? 20th August? I am thinking of actually making it - much more likely to happen if I know that there will be people there whom I know!

Just a though.

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kathbad July 28 2005, 08:54:47 UTC

I am not sure that I would make a particularly good subject, but would always be interested...

One thought I have had (but it is only literally as I am typing that it is solidifying into an actual idea) is to have some sort of record of the change in my body shape and size as I lose weight, especially as there is still a way to go - does that present any interest to you?

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 13:48:52 UTC

I'm intrigued. What kind of ideas do you have for shooting it?

kathbad July 28 2005, 16:40:18 UTC

I had not really thought about it any further than that, to be honest. In fact I do not know where to start in answering that question! Can you give any pointers about what sort of things you may mean and what sort of input you need from me?

I had looked at some of the shoots you have done and thought that I would love to have a shoot done, but I do not know how I will feel about any results - I know that my body image is a bit funny at the moment as I have changed shape so much with the weight that I have already lost.

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 17:18:41 UTC

There are two ways to take it really. One is to go for the "art" type shot (like the majority on the portfolio) or the other is actually strip all the pretension away and do "identity parade/line-up" style. That would be very raw, and perhaps dehumanising or at least scientific rather than artistic.

Although being an active artistic choice makes it pretentious I guess...

uberredfraggle July 28 2005, 08:58:12 UTC

I'll always pose for more but guess you're bored of me by now. Maybe a dual shoot. Could you cope with that?

davefish July 28 2005, 09:39:40 UTC

Urgh, losing photos would be very bad, I'm glad that you managed to get them recovered.

Care to arrange some mutual off-site backing up (AKA giving each other DVD-R's to look after)

Oh, and doing shoots together should be getting easier, there are plans afoot :)

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 13:48:07 UTC

I gave up on DVD-Rs - too many. I'll happily hold yours, but I suspect I'll put mine (on HD) elsewhere in Birmingham so it's easier to hand.

Thanks for the offer - and looking forward to the plans!

davefish July 28 2005, 16:53:23 UTC

I'm finding DVD-R just about right. You dump a shoot on it after you get back, and thats one. When you do some processing on good images you save those onto another one, and try to squeeze another backup of a given shoot on there as well.

But I am thinking of a USB2 hard drive might help as well.

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 16:57:08 UTC

I have four external USB2/Firewire IDE enclosures, each with a 200GB drive in it. So, that's 2x (200GBx2) backup sets, one for last year, one for this year so far.

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boglin July 28 2005, 09:59:56 UTC

Oh, and the cause of my despair? Losing 150GB of photos in a hard drive mishap. This left me rather annoyed at the time. I've managed to get 99%+ of them back, and now have, shall we say, a better backup regime than I had before.

I feel you pain brother. Though on a slightly smaller scale.

I now need to take more photos - sign up here!

If you're interested in working with animals it would be fun to have some of the rats - I can never do it without a handler and I'm the best person to handle mine.

kneeshooter July 28 2005, 13:47:10 UTC

Check!