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Originally Posted by Zeke
I have thought in the past that I was a 'drifter' before the name of making a long brodie was changed. I raced a little motorcycle flat track and loved sliding. Could do it in my cars too — on dirt or in the rain. Didn't have the HP or nitrous to do dry asphalt. I spent hours and hours going sideways if I could get it sideways.
Now, we're not talking about life here...
...or are we?  |
I can certainly appreciate the skill of the Ken Blocks of the world. I still get bored watching it in short order. Sliding around in the dirt is fun, but boring to watch, at least for me. Doing in on asphalt just needs LOTS more HP and directional brakes. The drifting "races" are just not something I care about. Like burnout contests, just noisy ways to destroy tires. I prefer track days and autocross to eat up tires. Just my preference.
I have multiple backups of my important files, and my system makes a full backup once per week of the entire boot system. Having used computers since the days of DOS 2.1 and even before with my Commodore Vic 16 and 64 I have never had a total loss of system files. I have had multiple hard drive failures over the years. My systems all have mirrored drives, so two physical hard drives working as redundant drives. One fails, replace it and it rebuilds the mirror.
Ironically we have had two RAID 6 systems crap out and die. They were just old data files, but rather annoying to have them gone.
That was THE one major advantage of flying with film. A the data can go away, and just scan the negatives, and start over. Fire was the big worry, and it is with a computer as well. Unless you get into the expense of off site data storage. Just more money to spend.