On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:40:04 -0600, Sky >
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>Terry wrote:
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>> Having a Gig of online hard drive space would be very useful.
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>> The first use for me would be to store "My Documents". Use Winrar and
>> password the file then upload. No more backing up data.
>
>Beware the data harvesters! No matter what, I'd never purposely store
>any of my personal data 'online' if I can help it. Give me good old
>floppies, CDs, DVDs, USB hard drives, whatever, but I won't store my
>data online on any storage location I can't put my fingers on!
>
>Beware, 'big brother' watches!
>
>Sky, who says call me paranoid (NOT!) - only cautious!

I fully agree. I wont even use my real name and personal info on
those forms that seem all too common on many websites these days.

I dont see why it's all that hard to backup at home. I have not yet
bought one of those USB Harddrives, but I have several old hard drives
that cost me under $10. About every 3 months I just plug them in to
one of the spare ide cables and copy my whole computer to it. In
between, I copy important stuff to memory sticks or floppies. I also
tried CDs, but thats far too much work since the software I have is
not capable of chaining from disk to disk.