On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:04:41 -0400, notyet@here.now wrote:
>I started out years ago using CD's, then DVD's for my digital storage,
>and would make at least 2 verified copies of everything, which was a
>pain, and I have discovered several disks that burned fine and worked
>okay, and failed some time after. At least one of the issues turned
>out to be disk labels. No idea why, but all of the disk errors were
>on disks with labels, so I stopped using them over a decade ago.
>
>I also stopped downloading stuff for about a decade, then got back
>into it about 2 years ago. Most of my previous stuff had been music
>and a few audio books. It took me years to get around to the books,
>but I enjoyed them so much, that's what motivated me to come back and
>see what else I could find. This group, documentaries, is probably my
>most favorite of all the groups, so I've been getting virtually
>everything on Agent's news server for this newsgroup. My preference
>for the USB drives is the Western Digital "My Book" products, the 4TB
>size is pretty economical, and I make two copies of each item on
>separate drives, so odds are, both won't fail at the same time, unless
>some giant solar flare wipes all our precious data and maybe us with
>it!
>
>The 6TB drives are in stores now, at $180, so I'll start using those
>when I need more space. Also, the 1TB drives are just over $50, which
>are very handy.
>
>Spike, I thought you were in Canada, but you mention pounds for money,
>not that I'm trying to find you out or anything, but just still
>lamenting the apparent disappearance of JCBinup who posted all those
>wonderful BBC series... I so hope he comes back, or someone else
>arises... PBS does show some things from the BBC, but now that I've
>tasted so many many, BBC2, BBC4, I think BBC must have a lot more
>money than PBS... [rant] not to mention the U.S. Republicans seem to
>want to get rid of PBS, along with public education and anything
>resembling socialism or liberal values [/rant] ... go figure... they
>know not what they do to their own children's future...
>
>I would like to post stuff eventually, but have not had the time to
>learn to use all this TOR stuff, or whatever it is, to hide my
>identity, and most of what I have came from here, and is probably
>still on the server... but I do have some old films on VHS that I need
>to digitize and post somewhere, maybe, if anybody might want them,
>things not yet released on dvd, like "One Day In The Life Of Ivan
>Denesovich", and "Looking For Mr Goodbar", to mention a couple.
>Actually, I already did digitize the "One Day..." one, just for my own
>archives, since who knows how long my VHS player will continue to
>work. None of my floppy drives work any more! Anyhow, so much to do,
>so little time...
>
>One thing I have digitized, but would love a better copy, it was a
>documentary about termites, "Mysterious Castles of Clay"
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I'm not a TOR user (maybe I Should be though), but I thought That was
just for private web browsing ? ... and so would have nothing to do
with being hidden when posting to Usenet. I might be wrong.
I think all you would need to post and hide your IP would be a
'tweaknews' account that allows posting, I have a Monthly account that
allows me to download all I need, but this doesn't allow posting so I
have a 10GB 'Block' account that allows me to upload my stuff and also
send messages, as long as I don't use ALL of the 10GB download
block... It doesn't expire so I can upload all I want. Uploads are Not
counted.
and has been keeping me going for well over a year.
I would advise that you check out the 'alt.binaries.teevee' group, if
you don't already. Lots of BBC, C4 and other docs are posted in there.
I also hope that another 'JC' turns up, A big part of my collection
was uploaded by JC.
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