{"id":964,"date":"2006-01-12T11:17:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2006-01-12T11:17:11","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T18:17:11","slug":"dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave
\nhas always liked the thought of having all your data on your desktop, or
\nlaptop.<\/a> As apposed to the server based applications. In the weblog
\naggregator world it is tools like Radio Userland compared to Bloglines,
\nand Blogger where the data is stored on the server.<\/p>\n

Today he mentioned a post by
\nPaolo<\/a> that talks about the potential problems of regular folks
\n(users) having all this data on a local machine and what happens to it
\nwhen something goes wrong and it’s all lost.<\/p>\n

“I think that one of the main issues with Radio UserLand is that
\nultimately the user has to manage an ever growing database on his
\ncomputer. While advanced users know how to deal with little problems, do
\nbackups and know that databases (and hard disks) tend to get corrupted,
\nbreak or get lost, regular users don’t and they often end up loosing
\ntheir stuff.”<\/i><\/p>\n

I’m a happy Radio Userland user and I feel for the users that regularly
\npost to the discussion group asking about how they can get their data
\nback after a disk crash, or a laptop is stolen. There is one thread
\ngoing on there right now. If they were savvy enough to turn on the
\nswitches to enable backups to the server then they might be able to copy
\nall those files and get back up and running. If they didn’t have
\nbackups turned on, or somehow they got turned off at some point (seems
\nthat happened to me when at some point. I recently checked for my
\nbackups and saw that somehow they stopped a year ago) they are generally
\nout of luck.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about this before in regards to MP3 players and other small,
\nlarge capacity storage devices. I’ve said repeatedly that I don’t want
\nto be a data center manager. The more data that I can keep under the
\nhopefully watchful eye of a real data center that will journal, and
\nbackup, and RAID and whatever it takes to protect all my data for me the
\nbetter. Soon we will have the capability to store Tera bytes of data in
\na device that will fit in our pocket. I just wonder if that’s what I’m
\nreally striving for.<\/p>\n

Another aspect of this has to do with Dave’s comment about having all
\nyour data with you on your laptop.<\/p>\n

“And sometimes you go somewhere where there’s no wide-area Internet,
\nlike on an airplane. This is why people who travel a lot, like Scoble,
\nlike to have all the data on their laptop, available to them whenever
\nthey want it.”<\/i><\/p>\n

It’s kind of funny that having data available whenever and wherever I
\nwant is the reason I personally like having my data on a server somewhere.<\/p>\n

I’m one of those people that doesn’t carry around a laptop, but instead
\nfind myself at different locations on desktop machines wanting to access
\nmy data. I’m at my PC at work and want to get to stuff that is at home
\nand visa versa. I’m traveling somewhere and want to post to my weblog,
\nor check on my RSS subscriptions. Things like Bloglines and Blogger let
\nme check on things anywhere I can get access to a web browser with an
\nInternet connection. With Radio Userland running on my machine at home
\nI’m constantly running into problems being able to access my data
\nremotely. At work the firewalls keep me from accessing my machine
\nremotely. And when I can get access I have to go through some hoops to
\nbe able to figure out what IP address my cable modem gave my router the
\nlast time it’s lease expired.<\/p>\n

I have the same firewall problem with OPML that prevents me from being
\nable to use the automatic root update process. This prevents me from
\nusing all the cool new stuff unless I go home and do the root updates
\nand then bring those updated roots to work. This really sucks when Dave
\nreleases a cool new feature like River of News and I can’t try it
\nbecause I can’t do the root update to get the new stuff.<\/p>\n

After helping my friend go through the process of reinstalling his OS
\nafter a disk crash recently, I was actually relieved that he was an AOL
\nuser as all his AOL “stuff” came back without me having to do anything.<\/p>\n

I think that there is a real market for products, devices, services that
\nwill take care of data for me so when my PC, iPod, laptop, hard drive
\netc dies I can just get a new one and all my “stuff” will still be “out
\nthere”. Either that or there is a real market for tools that make
\nmanaging the little data center in my PC\/iPod etc much easier than it is
\ntoday. I don’t know if that is RAID or disk mirroring, or nightly disk
\nimaging, .Mac or what but personally I think that right now it is way
\ntoo complicated and requires that I be a part time Data Center manager
\ntrying to keep track of the data on my PC and the PC’s of my daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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