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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Fate of the Galaxy => Topic started by: brandx0 on August 19, 2008, 03:49:40 pm
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Well, my laptop has boxed itself, so I'm currently sitting on my other computer. Unfortunately, I have none of my software on here with which to work, and for the moment I'm looking at solutions to getting my data off the laptop. So for now, I don't think we'll see any new progress from me at all until I can get some software on here.
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Well if the drive still works they do make converters so you can plug the laptop drive into a regular PC.
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Yeah, I'll be looking into that for sure
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O_O please tell me we won't be left with nothing but renders of those wonderful wonderful models.
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Fingers crossed. I'll know in a couple of days.
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What rig died if I may ask?
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My Laptop. As in, until I got this thing set up, my only rig
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Here's hoping you can resolve this without too much hassle! :yes:
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don't the other members of the project have backups?
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Give branx0 some software pronto!!
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Well, my laptop has boxed itself, so I'm currently sitting on my other computer. Unfortunately, I have none of my software on here with which to work, and for the moment I'm looking at solutions to getting my data off the laptop. So for now, I don't think we'll see any new progress from me at all until I can get some software on here.
See, if you had a mac, that wouldn't happen.
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Are you saying a Mac is physically incapable of experiencing a hardware failure? What kind of blow/crack/PCP/ex are you on?
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He's saying that if I had a mac, when the power supply blew up Justin Long would come to my house, sprinkle magical mac fairy dust on my laptop and my files would be miraculously transported to whatever other computer I wanted.
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just get yourself a 2.5" drive usb case , take the harddrive oout of your old computer and connect up will take ya 5 mins with a screw driver , and will cost you less than $20 , you may even be able to boot from that drive, but depends on the config of computers.....
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Second post already covered that.
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Second post already covered that.
yep maybe i read it as an internal solution
i use xternal drives as backups and running my linux systems in dual or triple booting ........
heres one that does both
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CTsk01 (http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CTsk01)
its for ssd but if you hunt around you can find the same for normal hd
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I've managed to get my files over. Situation under control.
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yay thats great
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*exhales*
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Yay!
Bit of advice: get a surge protector (or a better one ;))
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Or better yet, invest in an external HD/a crap-load of burnable DVDs/stone tablets to transcribe binary onto.
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Tape backup and enough tapes to back up at least once a week for 3 months and once a month for a year. Add daily backups for any new/change files if your like me. :D
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bah just alternate flash drives =p
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bah just alternate flash drives =p
My 4GB Flash Drive died recently, taking the electronic versions of my D&D books with it.
I replaced it with 5 8GB SD cards (With USB converter) and a terabyte external HDD. I kinda went overboard.
Seeing as this thread has served its purpose, I'm going to go completely off-topic now.
Is it just me, or does everyone give names to their electronic devices?
I've got Caprica, my Thinkpad laptop, Zena, my Creative Zen MP3 player, Tera, my terabyte external hard drive, Marvin, my Nintendo Wii, and Bruce, my original Motorola Razor.
EDIT: Also, HAL, my work machine.
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Nah, just my laptop...........................which is called Snipes! :nervous:
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My laptop is called Whiplash.
Oh, and I called one work-related copy machine Sergei.
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He's saying that if I had a mac, when the power supply blew up Justin Long would come to my house, sprinkle magical mac fairy dust on my laptop and my files would be miraculously transported to whatever other computer I wanted.
Ah. Didn't know that.
Mac power supplies don't blow up though.
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Is it just me, or does everyone give names to their electronic devices?
I've got Caprica, my Thinkpad laptop, Zena, my Creative Zen MP3 player, Tera, my terabyte external hard drive, Marvin, my Nintendo Wii, and Bruce, my original Motorola Razor.
EDIT: Also, HAL, my work machine.
Well I call my computer a stupid piece of **** on occasion (among other things). But it's not really a name as such.
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My network is called Angelic Radium... and i really have no idea what that means... just a name i thought up years ago and it stuck =p
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when I was a kid I would call my old computer Sheela.
didn't know naming electronics (or any non-living thing, for that matter) was so popular.
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Mac power supplies don't blow up though.
Maybe not blow up, but... (http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/powermacg5/topic4026.html)
Anyway, I don't normally name electronics. I named my truck though. I did at one point have a computer named jcn9000, to play off the HAL + 1 = IBM thing, so I called it IBM + 1 basically.
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My computer is Flexo, my Wii is named Valentine. Props to anyone who gets the references.
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My computer is Flexo, my Wii is named Valentine. Props to anyone who gets the references.
Bebop?
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The former is Futurama, and the latter could be one of several things.
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The former is Futurama, and the latter could be one of several things.
Ii'm froom texas.
I caal my computah bessy and sometiimes it gets a hillibilly stuuck up the usbeeh poart.
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s'named after Valentine Wiggin.
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My Laptop. As in, until I got this thing set up, my only rig
Sorry, meant to ask what kind of rig blew up. HP, Apple, Alienware etc etc
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Acer POS laptop hehe.
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My computer's name is just "Headquarters"
Regarding the backup thing, I would recommend at least monthly backups to DVD. That way, your data is still safe in the event of EMP. But, I'm just paranoid that way :)
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Of course, that would require a DVD burner.
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If you're worried about EMP, I hope you store the DVD archive in a firesafe too.
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To be extra sure, write down all the important data on a paper in binary. And possibly laminate the paper after that.
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What? Compressed HEX. Takes up much less paper.
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In other words, a girlier solution than the binary one.
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I have a long time maintained a view that stone tables with ones and zeros are the way to store data.
Everything else should be considered a TEMP folder.
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I have a long time maintained a view that stone tables with ones and zeros are the way to store data.
Everything else should be considered a TEMP folder.
Stone? Bah, not durable enough.
Diamond-coated iridium (iridium is the king of durability) FTW.
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iridium's good, but still not enough. Something along the lines of neutronium would be better, to my mind.
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No no no, what you want to do is create your own pocket universe with your information stored in the nature of its quantum values, so you can extrapolate your data from its physical constants. You could manipulate the value of pi to be the binary for the Freespace 2 ISO, for example.
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No no no, what you want to do is create your own pocket universe with your information stored in the nature of its quantum values, so you can extrapolate your data from its physical constants. You could manipulate the value of pi to be the binary for the Freespace 2 ISO, for example.
Chinese school children trained to memorize binary code?
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No no no, what you want to do is create your own pocket universe with your information stored in the nature of its quantum values, so you can extrapolate your data from its physical constants. You could manipulate the value of pi to be the binary for the Freespace 2 ISO, for example.
Sounds sexy.
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quantum computers 4tw.
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Computers are dead sexy.
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No no no, what you want to do is create your own pocket universe with your information stored in the nature of its quantum values, so you can extrapolate your data from its physical constants. You could manipulate the value of pi to be the binary for the Freespace 2 ISO, for example.
Hypothesis: Someone already did, this universe is the result.
Test: Run pi as an executable function.
Anyone up for it? I don't have the computing power...
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pi is an irrational number, you can't run it on a pc, maybe on a quantum computer tho.
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Dang! Now that's good content protection.
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be a pity if he forgot the password, or the key to the box for the pocket universe, or someone stole his universe
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Password, password, password, I know I left it under one of these galaxies somewhere...
Y'know, that'd explain a lot...
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Password, password, password, I know I left it under one of these galaxies somewhere...
Y'know, that'd explain a lot...
God forgot the root password to the universe around 50 A.D.?
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Ya just what happens when there's a blackout?
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It's a self-contained storage unit, with an onboard UPS rated for approximately 1.7 epochs. Power outages just disrupt the trans-multiversal I/O subsystems. That's where Dark Matter comes from.
No offense, but don't you people know anything? Geez, this is basic stuff, here.