Comments on: Pictures http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/2007/06/22/pictures/ Ramblings of a Computer Geek and his Wife... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:38:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: EJ http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/2007/06/22/pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-58351 EJ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:20:37 +0000 http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/?p=387#comment-58351 I already own Veritas Backup Exec right now and that's working out well so far (since I've got everything on my fileserver at this time). If I get the point of having distributed storage though, I'll take a harder look at it. And it's sick that your camera is in the phone! Wrong, I tell ya.. just plain wrong! I already own Veritas Backup Exec right now and that’s working out well so far (since I’ve got everything on my fileserver at this time). If I get the point of having distributed storage though, I’ll take a harder look at it.

And it’s sick that your camera is in the phone! Wrong, I tell ya.. just plain wrong!

]]> By: Dave http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/2007/06/22/pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-58346 Dave Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:53:43 +0000 http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/?p=387#comment-58346 This isn't a backups discussion (yet) but I'd look at Vembu Storegrid if you have multiple systems and want to distribute files between them. http://www.vembu.com/index.html Dave, who upgraded his digital camera when he got a new cell phone This isn’t a backups discussion (yet) but I’d look at Vembu Storegrid if you have multiple systems and want to distribute files between them.

http://www.vembu.com/index.html

Dave, who upgraded his digital camera when he got a new cell phone

]]> By: EJ http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/2007/06/22/pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-58143 EJ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 14:15:52 +0000 http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/?p=387#comment-58143 I just checked and my gallery appears to be right around 14 GB right now. Not too bad, as I have plenty of disk space available (100+GB). After seeing the quantity I'm running into now (forgetting disk space for a moment), I've come to realize that I'm trying to get two uses out of gallery: sharing with friends/family and personal organization. It excels with the sharing aspect (as long as I start to limit how much I toss on there - don't want to flood people with 8 shots of the same thing) but really lacks in the organization aspect. It looks like it has some promise in this area, with the ability to tag photos and add descriptions, titles, etc.. but it just takes so darn long to enter this information that I end up skipping it. Which makes it just not work for me for organization. I'm going to elaborate in another post, but this is one of the main reasons I just purchased Adobe Lightroom this week. It makes the organization of thousands and thousands of photos fairly painless. I'm going to check out that 'SAN' hardware you're using, sounds very interesting. I just checked and my gallery appears to be right around 14 GB right now. Not too bad, as I have plenty of disk space available (100+GB).

After seeing the quantity I’m running into now (forgetting disk space for a moment), I’ve come to realize that I’m trying to get two uses out of gallery: sharing with friends/family and personal organization. It excels with the sharing aspect (as long as I start to limit how much I toss on there – don’t want to flood people with 8 shots of the same thing) but really lacks in the organization aspect.

It looks like it has some promise in this area, with the ability to tag photos and add descriptions, titles, etc.. but it just takes so darn long to enter this information that I end up skipping it. Which makes it just not work for me for organization.

I’m going to elaborate in another post, but this is one of the main reasons I just purchased Adobe Lightroom this week. It makes the organization of thousands and thousands of photos fairly painless.

I’m going to check out that ‘SAN’ hardware you’re using, sounds very interesting.

]]> By: David Rasch http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/2007/06/22/pictures/comment-page-1/#comment-58142 David Rasch Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:47:22 +0000 http://www.thejohnsonblog.com/?p=387#comment-58142 I made it to the end! On one hand--Flickr was invented for people and photographers to share their photos in a social way. For a nominal fee you can upload gobs of photos there. On the other--As you know, I currently host about 5-6 photo galleries on my server in Durham. Right now, between these 5-6 I've only got about 25GB of photos online. However, the rate at which it grows has been increasing substantially as people upgrade to higher megapixel cameras and make more use of their galleries. For storage and backups, I've setup a 'SAN' with USB disks hanging off of a Linksys NSLU2. I've got about 2TB backed up and accessible not inside any of the computers but over a crossover cable and an extra ethernet card. This has simplified some of my storage challenges. It also makes adding disks trivial. At some point I'm going to have to upgrade from a NSLU2 to something else solid state as the unit gets more and more utilization. -David I made it to the end!

On one hand–Flickr was invented for people and photographers to share their photos in a social way. For a nominal fee you can upload gobs of photos there.

On the other–As you know, I currently host about 5-6 photo galleries on my server in Durham. Right now, between these 5-6 I’ve only got about 25GB of photos online. However, the rate at which it grows has been increasing substantially as people upgrade to higher megapixel cameras and make more use of their galleries. For storage and backups, I’ve setup a ‘SAN’ with USB disks hanging off of a Linksys NSLU2. I’ve got about 2TB backed up and accessible not inside any of the computers but over a crossover cable and an extra ethernet card. This has simplified some of my storage challenges. It also makes adding disks trivial. At some point I’m going to have to upgrade from a NSLU2 to something else solid state as the unit gets more and more utilization.

-David

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