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What is a good Blu-Ray drive for archiving purposes? Also does the following logic seem good:
1) For archiving/offsite backup I need about 15-25 Gig snapshots for this client.
2) Blu-Ray 25 Gig are from $1.70 to $2 per disc in bulk. EVen the 8-10 GB DVDS are more expense per amount of capacity than the Blu-Ray discs, plus nusiance of archives spanning multiple discs.
3) Portable disc drives can actually be cheaper per capacity, but then problem of having drive on site most of the time with not only current archive, but past archives, which loses the point of offsite.
4) Over internet would keep archives offsite -but 15 to 25 Gig at a time seems a bit much for 4 MB internet connections.
Client now has on-site backup, but for off-site, blu-ray really does seem best strategy. True? Or missing something?
Those are adorable, but for the eleventy-billionth time I ask: NO GIRLS?!
I want one of these: LoL Shield for Arduino
The LoL Shield is a charlieplexed LED matrix for the Arduino. The LEDs are individually addressable, so you can use it to display anything in a 9×14 grid. Scroll text, play games, display images, or anything else you want to do. Please note, this is a shield and requires an Arduino for control.
It's very pretty in blue. But I just have to think of some use for it. I could, say, add a temperature sensor and use it for a wall-mounted thermometer, make a clock, add a network (and maybe wireless) shield to my Arduino and have it display a graph of network activity through my router....
Any other ideas?
eta: Ooh. A graph for a C02 sensor. I could watch it changed when I use my stove or oven.
question:
I am looking for a "media center" that I can connect to my tv, and on which I can play netflix (for sure), hulu (preferably), and that can convert avi files to play on the tv.
I do not have an HDTV.
any recommendations of my options?
A Mac Mini running Boxee could do all that, but I think it only comes with HDMI out, so you'd need an adapter.
ION, the other buyer fell through and I am now the proud 2nd owner of a used 1st-gen Kindle. If I fall totally in love with it I'll probably try to resell this one and put the proceeds towards one of the shiny new graphite ones.
So has anyone developed css for b.org for use on a phone running the opera mobile browser?
So I went and bought a laptop and signed up for the Verizon broadband wireless ... and I get almost no signal at home. I'm currently in Borders - where it took me 45 @!#%@!!!! minutes to get on their free wifi. This isn't working out quite like I hoped ....
So... anyone know anything about turning on/off horizontal word wrap in an HTML textarea?
So far, I've found if I add
textarea { white-space: pre; }
to the page's stylesheet, then the horizontal word wrap gets turned off. But then it's impossible to enter more than one line (i.e. a carriage return does
not
produce a new line when horizontal word wrap is turned off.
So:
- How do I turn horizontal word wrap off yet allow the user to use a carriage return to produce a new line?
- If I get that to work, how do I use Javascript to turn the horizontal word wrap on and off?
- Why does the above code work in a stylesheet but if I do the same thing in the textarea tag like so:
<textarea name='txtNote2' rows='14' cols='93' white-space: pre;>
it
doesn't
work?
