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Please don’t lose the pictures of racehorses and jockeys taken over the years David..hopefully you can archive them in some sort of Picture Gallery, also pictures of the TRF members get togethers including those of your very own founder Daylight and all the long term TRF members, such a shame for them to be part of the cull.
The Daylight Gallery would be a fitting tribute.
Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...Not just TRF. Historians in the future are really going to struggle with original source material. It worries me greatly that people store photos on computers and memory sticks and they will just disappear over time [sad].
My son sometimes asks ‘what you doing or need I ask’? when on here posting.
It would be nice to think that when I’m long gone he might decide to look in and read all the hours of rubbish I post.Good post Drone.
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I’d also ask you not to delete the archive, Cormack.
We’re the first generation of Racing fans with the facility to express ourselves this way and it should be preserved. Cant be that difficult surely, I’d be willing to help if needed.
I can stick almost anything Racing related into Google and generally find a path to here, where I’m almost guaranteed to find some interesting verse from years gone by.
You’d be erasing a meaningful journal, much of it the passionate voice of "unofficial" Racing, that will still be of interest a hundred years from now.
The forum has been stable and fast of late, so I’m not sure I like the sound of those "less powerful" words in your opening post either.
Great post, Drone.
Echo what others have said.
Am going to need to need to do a blog instead of Daily Lays And Plays if more might be deleted in future.Value Is EverythingCorm …dont do it , if you can hold it please do …Drone is spot on , history is good , why burn it
well done Drone a smashing post
Ok. We’re going to try to port it all. I’ll also see if we can take an image of the database and stick it on a cloud somewhere to ensure it doesn’t simply vanish. maybe a small, read only, archive site. The prob is that there is a limit to just how much we can store without the monthly cost ratcheting up.
But I’m with you.Fine post, Drone. BTW, how do you store your work? I read last week of a man transferring his journal (he wrote every day for 30 years) into Evernote, by scanning page by page.
Corm, I came across this in the New York Times today – I don’t know if it applies only in the US at the moment, but, at the price, it must be worth a look.
Microsoft is still hoping to get people to upgrade to a paid subscription to Office 365, which costs $6.99 a month to use Office on a single smartphone, tablet and PC or Mac. Households that want to share a subscription for Office on up to five devices of each type pay $9.99 a month.
There are excellent free productivity apps on mobile and PCs from Google, Apple and others, and the prospect of those apps chipping away at its Office business is terrifying for Microsoft.
But Microsoft has sweetened its Office 365 deal by including unlimited online storage through OneDrive, its cloud storage service.
That’s not a misprint. You can create an online copy of all of your pictures, videos, music and other files in the cloud, with no limits. One terabyte of online storage costs $19.99 from Apple’s iCloud service, while Dropbox and Google each charge $9.99 a month.
I can’t imagine personally needing much more than a terabyte of online backup — it is more than 300,000 photos or 1,000 hours of video. But I might get there someday as the resolution in cameras increases. It’s comforting to know I have a copy of all my data in case my computer is stolen, destroyed in a fire or just conks out.
Hi corm, will the owners colours’ thread remain intact in its entirety?
We’re hoping we can port the lot over without deleting any.
I’ve asked about options for storing the data somehow if it can’t all be stored on the forum server, I’m sure there will be a way.Cav – ‘less powerful’ means basically that we are moving from a high-ish-end Amazon solution which supported our site (which is a mix of bespoke programming and a php board). Amazon solution is expensive and much more than we need really and our site design was outdated from a technical viewpoint, some of the software tech was no longer supported and it basically required a lot (of developer time) doing to the site to bring it up to date and avoid the issues we’ve had. The advice I had was that without a redesign of current site or dev of new site we’d experience more and more problems as time wore on. there were some inherent programming issues with the site which we’ve lived with (all of us!) which needed fix too. It is much cheaper and preferable both to redesign rather than try to fix current site and also to move to a cheaper host.
So, the preferred option is to move to a much more economic hosting solution (via wordpress site design tool which offers cheap and flexible site design which we can do most of ourselves without incurring significant developer fees as with current site, where most is bespoke and a very affordable third party hosting solution which supports wordpress). This reduces our costs very significantly.
I am extremely hopeful the site will be as fast as it is now (although it is running better it requires a lot of tlc, middle of night manual reboots and stuff to maintain current speeds/lack of glitches).
BTW, how do you store your work? I read last week of a man transferring his journal (he wrote every day for 30 years) into Evernote, by scanning page by page.
Very simple, just as a Microsoft Word doc with the highly original title of ‘Posts’. I tend to compose on Word first, then copy to email/message board
All my old photos are now scanned as .jpg files and my entire record/cassette collection now mp3 files
Original copies of the Magna Carta have survived 800 years: will today’s Hard Disks, CDs, DVDs, Flashdrives, Clouds…survive 800 years
where it all goes nobody knows
I did my own backup of the board yesterday (3.78GB), using the free website copier HTTrack, ran a search and found the posts went back to 2002
Dropbox is where I store most of my files, photos and documents, it’s so useful as it updates every computer, phone, tablet you own, but you probably knew that already
anyway here’s a link with a special offer from Microsoft for Dropbox users:
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/19/80712 … pbox-users
Thank you for listening David and all your hard work getting this together.
Jac
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...These Cloud sites would seem to be ideal for website archiving – and thanks to those who’ve pointed them out – but could someone explain why they’re any better for the storage of personal files than one’s own ‘traditional’ backup media such as CD, Flashdrive and supplementary Hard Disk?
I was still being perplexed by Fortran and punch card computers the size of wardrobes when Sinclair introduced his ZX81 so I freely admit to having continued to subsist approximately five years (come on XP Drone be honest, 15 years) behind the computing zeitgeist, so know zilch about Cloud storage
anyway here’s a link with a special offer from Microsoft for Dropbox users:- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.