I bought a one-terabyte external hard drive for about $130.00 about a month ago. Mass storage is fairly inexpensive these days, the problem is finding someone that will be willing to have the server available and babysit the device. Thanks Rodger Fry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Gibson" <jimgibson00@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] New gallery (Was: First Light Image...) Patrick There are 500 GB (.5 TB) drives available for $125.00 at: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148346&CMP=AFC-C8Ju... I have an older computer that is networked to Comcast that is not really doing anything that could be used as a server. It has been reliable for a lot of years but it is showing signs of ageing. It might have something to do with all those World of Warcraft instances my grand kids were runningÂ….ok, I might have been in on that too, hehe. I wouldnÂ’t mind dedicating it to something worthwhile. I donÂ’t mind buying a 500 gig hard drive for it, but I would hate to take on a project and then have it go flakey on me. Throw the idea around and see what people want. Jim Gibson --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote: From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] New gallery (Was: First Light Image...) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 1:10 AM On 02 Jan 2009, at 00:42, Chuck Hards wrote:
The nice thing about the old Gallery was that everyone's astro-related photos were all in one place.
Agreed. I just emailed the SLAS webmaster asking when he might be able to get the gallery up and running.
The convenience and utility of the old Gallery were undeniable. What kind of space do you think would be needed for a new one? A TB or so?
Depends on how much space each person is allowed to use. Please check my math but assuming most people would not post more than maybe 100 images and if each of those was limited to say 500 KB and we had no more than 50 people posting (UA had far fewer) that would come to .25 TB. Any offers of space out there? patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com