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Yorkshire Indian society dinner

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The 27th Yorkshire Indian society dinner at Savile's hall (Royal Armouries).

Nice motor!

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Tim Bresnan, England cricketer and Jaguar ambassador, at Hatfields, Wakefield.

Frog all

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An interesting take on a lucky dip; hundreds of Kermits with a zip pouch containing a prize. This was at the Lucy-Mai foundation spring ball at Queen's hotel, Leeds

Techy / geeky question

Wonder if anyone's got any bright ideas? I've bought an external hard drive enclosure and 4 x 2TB hard drives to convert about 1000 DVDs of photographs into my "library" so that I have direct access to them rather than having to hunt down the DVD with the images on each time. Rather than run them as the 4 seperate hard drives, I think it's best to have them in RAID array. But which sort? Every website says RAID 0 is no good because it doesn't back up the data. But I've already got the DVDs, and I need (a rough calculation) 4TB of space. So if I configured them as RAID 1, 5 or 10, I'd only have 4TB so the unit would be immediately full with no space for any more. And then I've now heard mention of RAID 6 (as well as the other numbers), so now just plain old confused. http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/ Plus there's a couple of websites describe how to use Windows disk management to convert the drives into RAID, but when

No freebies!

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2 events happening today at Trinity Walk in Wakefield; the opening of the handmade burger co & an easter egg hunt. I was offered freebies from both but declined; must be mad!