Probably not everyone’s cup of tea as they’re missing whirly things on the front, or back – but how about one of the new build ME262’s and, because of it’s historic significance next year – a visit by the single seat Lightening from Thunder City, SA.

Well there’s two years plus hangerage and services (electricity, heating, etc) – not sure what that would come to. Some work will have to have been paid for too as volunteers cannot possibly provide all the technical resources necessary even to get it into it’s current state.

I do think it would be a good idea to have on the TVOC website a figure showing how much is in the current kitty – plus some idea of what has been pledged.

As much as anything else, it gives us an idea of how much harder we (fundraisers, pledgers and the pulblic) have to work to get anywhere near the target figures required.

For some inexplicable reason, most of the funds already in the kitty cannot be matched by the HLF grant.

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Just another point – The Public aren’t used to “Pledges” it is confusing. They simply see “Pledge” and “Donation” as interchangeable words these days because of the success of TV lead charities such as the upcoming “Children In Need” – where a pledge really means you have agreed to send so much money pretty much regardless.

XH558 will be scrapped if no HLF grant is awarded.

What an utterly ludicrous thing for TVOC to say – this is guaranteed NOT to get any further funds from anyone. Who, in their right mind, is going to put their own money into something that might end up as razor blades?

I’m in favour of stating an alternative future, saying something like “we already have enough to put the wheels back on”, for instance – but to come up with a negative line like this is tantamount to saying “you’ll be able to buy a vulcan razor blade soon”.

In days of yore, when a project needed help from the public, a “thermometer” of the amount raised so far used to be put up somewhere – and this has an important psychological effect – people can see what the current state of play is. However, no such indication currently exists, and this raises questions in itself. The obvious one being – “How much have we got so far?” followed by “How much more do we need?”

We’ve been offering them the opportunity to make a little out of our sales for at least a year – but nothing has happened. When married with the amount we have already contributed it could have been a worthwhile sum of money – as they say “every little helps”. Technical details of what they needed to do on their website was given, but whilst not ignored, were not acted upon and no reason why not given.

Not only that, but we were removed from their list of “Pledgers”, when their website was updated earlier in the year.

At this eleventh hour, if we can assist further we will, but we do not now believe that we can make a sizeable financial contribution.

RAMMS Ltd

I send the pic to myself by email

I would imagine Canon’s Zoombrowser software will allow you to simply save the shrunken picture file under a new name, and/or in a new place, without you having to send it to yourself by email. You should be able to cut that part of the job out.

If you don’t already have it, here’s a link to the latest version.

To keep files as long as possible, it is probably a good idea to buy hard drives as you need them, then back the contents up to tape or other hard drives on a regular basis.

The best and safest way is to use 5 hard drives in a RAID 5 array (3 drives is the minimum for this configuration). This will ensure there are always two physical copies of any one file, and drives can be swapped out should one fail without any loss of data and in a suitably equipped file server, without even turning off the computer!

Even if other hardware fails, such as the disk controller hardware, nothing is lost. In more expensive systems, even disk controllers can have automatic fall back – probably a little beyond the budget of most, though.

If you’re files are being kept for professional purposes, then this really is cheap compared to the cost of storing the film and paper even when you throw in the cost of a database program to log, record and access them, when worked out on a per picture basis.

NetWare allows deleted files to be recovered some years later, if the drive has plenty of empty space. An adjustable percentage of the drive can be allocated to deleted file storage – which automatically purges if space becomes tight.

Such hardware is much much cheaper now, and well within the budget of any small business.

If anyone needs help in this area, then please don’t hesitate to contact me. Private Messaging is turned on!

Neilly – okay, I’ll edit this post a little later with a full explanation – or better still a link to an ISP which has already done a description on how to upload files to webspace, and a modification for this page.

If you let me know who your ISP is, maybe I can use their descriptions (modified) for you.

Posting Pics

If you have an ISP, then you probably have some webspace available to you as part of the package. It would probably be better to store the pictures on your own webspace, and use the IMG link, rather than the “attach file” tool.

You aren’t limitedd by size then, and relieve the website owner of having to find space for your pictures.

If you have broadbank, you could even keep the pictures on your own webserver, but that’s probably a bit more complicated for most.

This one is kept on my webserver, at home.