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The Big Plan...
Oct. 31st, 2006 08:21 amSo, I'm about to start my big project.
First, I want all my books scanned. I've culled them to the ones that I want to keep for some reason, either by reference or to read again. I need them all scanned, or at least to have digital copies of them on hand so that I can access them. Some of them are water damaged, and as such, may prove rought to scan, but it's a long term project.
Second, I want to get all my text files off of old TRS-80 disks into a format I can use without an emulator. I have some good writings there, and I want them accessible to me again. I suspect I'll lose a few due to disk age, but anything I can get off them I want off them.
Third, I want all my grandmother's recipes scanned or entered into the system. I have family members who want them, and I want to do a family distribution only cookbook for them.
And while all this is going on, I want to rip all four hundred and thirty five (currently) CD's to the server, build playlists for them, and then create hyperlinks so that I can start the playlist from a single click and listen to the album. I have this huge server here already anyway, with over a terabyte of drive space, so I have plenty of room. (A terabyte would hold about eighteen thousand CD's, so I have lots of spare room) I'm also going to create custom playlists, like all the albums of a particular artist, all my rock, all my jazz, all my new age, and all my cd's and records. This process also includes converting all my cassettes and vinyl to MP3's as well, so that I have everything at my fingertips. Then, when I get moved, I'm going to build a computer for the living room that has sound piped throughout the house, so that I canfill the house with music at any time I'm looking at a new reciever that has zone capability, so that people listening to one speaker feed can listen to something other than what is being listened to in the main room.
Finally, I want to go through all the miscellaneous paper in the house and get it transcribed into the computer as well. This includes notes, music I've written, and reference materials. This way I can access the stuff, and also purge a lot of paper into the recycle bin. Then, I'm going to burn the entire thing to several CD's of the highest quality I can get, with multiple backups, and also store them both on the server and on a couple of removed hard drives, so that I have redundancy.
When this is all done, I'll have a nice, comprehensive resource for just about anything I need, and it'll be maintainable as well. It's a big project that is probably going to take a couple of years, but at least everything will be dealt with and for the most part, (with the exception of books and CD's, which I have to keep for copyright compliance) it'll be out of my life.
First, I want all my books scanned. I've culled them to the ones that I want to keep for some reason, either by reference or to read again. I need them all scanned, or at least to have digital copies of them on hand so that I can access them. Some of them are water damaged, and as such, may prove rought to scan, but it's a long term project.
Second, I want to get all my text files off of old TRS-80 disks into a format I can use without an emulator. I have some good writings there, and I want them accessible to me again. I suspect I'll lose a few due to disk age, but anything I can get off them I want off them.
Third, I want all my grandmother's recipes scanned or entered into the system. I have family members who want them, and I want to do a family distribution only cookbook for them.
And while all this is going on, I want to rip all four hundred and thirty five (currently) CD's to the server, build playlists for them, and then create hyperlinks so that I can start the playlist from a single click and listen to the album. I have this huge server here already anyway, with over a terabyte of drive space, so I have plenty of room. (A terabyte would hold about eighteen thousand CD's, so I have lots of spare room) I'm also going to create custom playlists, like all the albums of a particular artist, all my rock, all my jazz, all my new age, and all my cd's and records. This process also includes converting all my cassettes and vinyl to MP3's as well, so that I have everything at my fingertips. Then, when I get moved, I'm going to build a computer for the living room that has sound piped throughout the house, so that I canfill the house with music at any time I'm looking at a new reciever that has zone capability, so that people listening to one speaker feed can listen to something other than what is being listened to in the main room.
Finally, I want to go through all the miscellaneous paper in the house and get it transcribed into the computer as well. This includes notes, music I've written, and reference materials. This way I can access the stuff, and also purge a lot of paper into the recycle bin. Then, I'm going to burn the entire thing to several CD's of the highest quality I can get, with multiple backups, and also store them both on the server and on a couple of removed hard drives, so that I have redundancy.
When this is all done, I'll have a nice, comprehensive resource for just about anything I need, and it'll be maintainable as well. It's a big project that is probably going to take a couple of years, but at least everything will be dealt with and for the most part, (with the exception of books and CD's, which I have to keep for copyright compliance) it'll be out of my life.
