[ale] Organizing large files on small media

[Ned Williams]

You could always compress the media to an alternative format, DIVX of SVCD
if all the DVD players invovlved will handle the not-so-US-formats...that
will let you cram more data on each DVD thus might making sorting easier?

Ned


On 7/17/07, S C C <scc4fun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing this was meant for the Alpharetta Power thread
>
> On 7/17/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com > wrote:
> >
> > Most of the growth was in the 90s - I recall when Windward Parkway had
> > only 3 data centers going right off the north bound lanes and almost
> > nothing going left.   Back then (early 90s) going to the Holiday Inn
> > data center felt like one was just doing a rest stop on the way to
> > Helen.
> >
> > I had a coworker in 97 that moved from Alpharetta to in town Atlanta
> > because the traffic was actually better in the latter by then.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > Thompson Freeman
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:50 AM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Organizing large files on small media
> >
> > On 07/17/2007 08:51:12 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > Look at PAR.  It can create a par archive files at any
> > > size you specify
> > > that will have redundancy built it.   It is based on the
> > > Reed-Solomon
> > > CRC.  Same CRC that is in CDs and used with probes we send
> > > to space.  If
> > > you have enough DVDs you could actually lose one DVD and
> > > still have
> > > enough data to rebuild what was lost.
> >
> > Sounds neat. I'll look into it a little later. My daughter
> > has connectivity issues that I'm supposed to look into...
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