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Offline Mongoose

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
Or better yet, invest in an external HD/a crap-load of burnable DVDs/stone tablets to transcribe binary onto.

 

Offline FUBAR-BDHR

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
bah just alternate flash drives =p

 

Offline Turey

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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.
« Last Edit: August 22, 2008, 03:25:17 am by Turey »
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why would an SCP error be considered as news? :wtf: *smacks Cobra*It's a feature.

 

Offline Wobble73

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
Nah, just my laptop...........................which is called Snipes!  :nervous:
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Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
My laptop is called Whiplash.

Oh, and I called one work-related copy machine Sergei.
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

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14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

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15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []

 
Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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.

 
Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
Mac power supplies don't blow up though.

Maybe not blow up, but...

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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
My computer is Flexo, my Wii is named Valentine. Props to anyone who gets the references.
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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
My computer is Flexo, my Wii is named Valentine. Props to anyone who gets the references.

   Bebop?

 

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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
The former is Futurama, and the latter could be one of several things.

 
Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
The former is Futurama, and the latter could be one of several things.

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I caal my computah bessy and sometiimes it gets a hillibilly stuuck up the usbeeh poart.
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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
s'named after Valentine Wiggin.
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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
Acer POS laptop hehe.
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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
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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Re: Bad News: I'm out of commission for a bit
Of course, that would require a DVD burner.
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