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Wikileaks Drops Large INSURANCE File Today (per Twitter; 83 gig)
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/810813937566543872 ^

Posted on 12/19/2016 1:24:15 PM PST by TigerClaws

Tweeted by Wikileaks.

WikiLeaks ‏@wikileaks 6m6 minutes ago

INSURANCE 2016-12 torrent https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/2016-12-09_WL-Insurance.aes256.torrent … (83GiB) SHA256:637f6996be1ea0155099df79baf7b7e7be14d17965026f619acf139f9fd55382

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/810813937566543872


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: wiki; wikileaks
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To: Real Cynic No More

2 floppy drives - one was the “a:” and the other the (then) soon-to-be-superfluous and now long forgotten “b:” drive. The “c:” drive retained its status as the traditional location for the OS and subsequent other installed/mappable drives now run “d:” though “z:”


61 posted on 12/19/2016 4:37:56 PM PST by Orbiter
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To: dhs12345

I’m finally getting around to looking at a NAS.

I’ll pull archive stuff every so often.

Out of the vast amounts of CD, DVD, and Blu-ray discs, I have had a handful of failed ones. All of them were vintage HPs.


62 posted on 12/19/2016 4:38:54 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Charles Martel

aah yes, I can believe that


63 posted on 12/19/2016 4:41:22 PM PST by Thibodeaux (Exile Barack, Exile the Wookie, Exile Malia, Exile Shasha)
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To: drpix

For the life of me, I can’t see what she ever saw in that toad.


64 posted on 12/19/2016 5:00:14 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: wally_bert

Netgear make pretty good NAS. A little pricey but feature rich.


65 posted on 12/19/2016 5:05:50 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

I’ll look into that.

Thanks for the tip.

The QNAP boxes at the office work very well too.


66 posted on 12/19/2016 5:16:41 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: PMAS

Well, that certainly is informative. Answers all our questions, doesn’t it? Sheesh - how helpful is that?


67 posted on 12/19/2016 5:23:00 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Calvin Locke
I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have.

At only 2995.00!

68 posted on 12/19/2016 5:25:13 PM PST by AU72
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To: TigerClaws
I don't understand what she means when she says we "live in a rape culture" and that "all women go through this."

Anneke Lucas: We Live In a Rape Culture (!)

69 posted on 12/19/2016 5:46:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Congratulations, President Donald J. Trump! - Let's MAGA!!!)
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To: Cyclone59

The fact that Bill Clinton performed their marriage ceremony says much about the purpose of their marriage.


70 posted on 12/19/2016 6:56:40 PM PST by drpix
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To: lacrew
I remember a brief moment in time when PCs would have 2 or 4 hard drives connected together to make one huge (at the time) drive.

Still pretty common today. When I add a new volume to my Linux desktop, I just hook it up, and tell the operating system to add that space to the /home partition. Logical volumes are the way to go when you're configuring drives. Sure beats the insanity of drive letters used by MS-Windows.

71 posted on 12/19/2016 8:55:12 PM PST by zeugma (I'm going to get fat from all this schadenfreude)
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To: Calvin Locke
I remember when a 5 meg hd was a thing to have.

LOL! Me too - the first 20M drive I got was so big I decided to partition it....

72 posted on 12/20/2016 2:36:33 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: wally_bert

If you want to get really fancy, get yourself a UPS.

Anyway, the ReadyNas family of boxes are pretty slick. The version I have is a two drive mirrored RAID. The drives are hotpluggable. It talks to my UPS and I use an inexpensive USB drive and cloud access for backups. The power up/power down schedule can be set up too and when the drives are allowed to spin down and go to sleep and the unit to turn off. It manages and monitors drive, system, fan, backup drive, and UPS health and reports status via email.

It can be set up as a print server so if you have a USB interface printer, it can be made available to all computers on your network.

It allows for full user group management and can be set up for snapshots (old version of files) which fill up the disk but it can be managed and is smart.

It has virus checker software.

There are around 20 different apps that can be installed to add more features and function.

https://www.netgear.com/business/products/storage/readynas/?cid=wmt_netgear_organic


73 posted on 12/20/2016 6:42:16 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Calvin Locke
5 Megs? You had a 5 Meg hard drive?
We used to dream of a 5 Meg hard drive. We had to save our data on a cassette tape and we liked it.
74 posted on 12/20/2016 6:55:37 AM PST by LivingNet
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To: TigerClaws

Those darned Russkies are at it again trying to steal the White House from Hillary.


75 posted on 12/20/2016 6:59:04 AM PST by petitfour (Americans need to repent.)
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To: LivingNet
1) One consulting job I had in 1971, there were three cassette drives (only), and it took an hour of the computer clicking away, copying records back and forth, to sort 1,000 customer records by name.

2) Another job mid-1970s, the computer staff would keep all the failed 5-megabyte (0.005 gigabyte) IBM 2314s on an upper shelf in the main computer room. There were about 100 as I recall, very attractively arranged. Also, computers and IBM support fees were so outrageously expensive that they charged $360 per CPU-second to run anything, billable to your department, so you learned at risk of your job to write programs maximally efficient.

76 posted on 12/20/2016 7:15:55 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Calvin Locke

Around 1987 the insurance guy who shared an office with us bought and IBM XT with 20 meg HD. We calculated it would take him 15 years at the current rate of storage to fill it up.


77 posted on 12/20/2016 7:31:17 AM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: LivingNet
You had cassette tape? We had to use micro cassettes...

Sort of. There were machines that had them, but I was jealous of the data networking people that were current looped to a 20M Winchester the size of a 2 drawer filing cabinet.

I did had an 8" floppy drive, in addition to the two 5.25 floppy drives. Can't for the life of me remember what the capacity was, and I wrote the device driver.

78 posted on 12/20/2016 9:46:32 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: freedomlover
"A 5 MB hard disk drive from Apple cost $3,500 in 1981. I think it had gone down to $2000 by 1986."

And I just bought a 16GB SD card for $5, half the size of a fingernail. Ain't progress wonderful?

79 posted on 12/20/2016 4:02:14 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Dustoff45

That was back when they hand wound the recording heads. There is still a very impressive production line there still making wafers for the read-write heads.


80 posted on 12/20/2016 5:42:53 PM PST by Flying Circus (God help us!)
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