from PotD's, some befores and afters...

[acroyear]

A cheap "college" poster of Shakespeare Insults had an ok frame, so I turned it from this...

...to this...      (hence my question on enlargements)


This helped contribute to making the office look like this...

...to this...


"...and that means comfort."

Comments

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

4 external hard drives? Yeesh...Get them to buy a NAS box for you. :>

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

Um... Most of them are his. He loads all his music and his photos on them, then uses them to play music and/or run his screensaver... ;)

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

Ok, then... Joe, Buy your own NAS box. ;>

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

actually?

6.

3 of which are coming home soon, the 4th a bit later on.

1 - just the classical music
2 - rock, pop, jazz, folk/celt/rennie, prog

those two are permanently at home whereever i work.

3 - THE photo archive (this one is only 80 and is going to move its contents elsewhere as it's filling up now that i'm scanning)
4 - a "best of" music and photos (export quality 1mp, rather than the full-size 8 and 10s) for use in a home "video jukebox and photo frame" - I got a small p3 that's perfect for just playing music and showing photos and a DAMN cheap 19" flat ('cause it was the only one not wide-screen/HD).
5 - Doctor Who and Reboot, and the Reboot's gonna have to move off by the time these interim specials wind down (as it also includes some classic Who plus Torchwood and sarah jane, plus any behind the scenes stuff i can get like Confidential)
6 - a 500 that's being an archive box

plus there's an external dvd-rom.

but the point is that there's almost nothing "personal" on the C:\ drive here.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, the point is each of them were picked up when something was on sale, rather than an intentional investment in "hardware".

the music's so large 'cause i'm ripping at 192 rather than 128, with some ripped even higher quality.

oh, and there's tons of it, too.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

besides, why should i buy one when I've already got this much space? what does NAS do besides piss off the IT department for flooding our network. (I already got chided for flooding things awhile back when collecting magazine-print quality photos for MDRF's submissions to ren magazine, as that was a lot of multi-meg files moving from email servers to picasa and/or straight to MDRF over various SMTP servers. I don't know if any we submitted got in or not.)

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

Sure, I understand. I do the same sort of thing with my music at work. (Tho my collection fits on a little 160GB drive.) I was thinking how slow large USB data transfers would be, all those power bricks under the desk, and the loss of desk space.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

aside from any major transfers (as i said, there's only moving the 70gig of photos off that 80gig drive left to do 'cause more scans of old crap are coming in and need to be dealt with), once it's on there it's on there. reading it for watching the video or playing the mp3 doesn't come close to outdoing the USB speed or buffer sizes.