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More changes coming soon. I have some ideas I want to toy with. In class, don't have time now, but might try it tonight. Mainly minor changes to the boards. Just some organizational stuff.
More info later.
Yes, I know, old topic. I just wanted to add a few things.
I just skimmed over the article, but I did read the section on data loss. I know from experience that data loss is a pretty ugly thing. I had a cheap power supply (my first mistake) fry, and took out 2 hard drives — one had just programs, and the other had all of my work, writings, art, and data on it. And, I did not have a recent backup (my second mistake). The thing is, I needed this data. So, I found a data recovery service. After contacting them (and getting a $300 discount for being a poor college student), parts came to $400, and labor was $700 – a total of $1,100!! I got my drive back with a 99.9+% recovery rate (only 1 file was corrupt). I was happy, but my bank account was not.
I learned 2 good lessons from that: one, my data drive is now kept in an external enclosure, away from the internals of the computer (although I only run quality PC Power and Cooling PS's now); and two, I BACKUP my data, and I do if often (not as often as I should though).
So, Tim made some real good points in that article about saving your data.
I like the idea. I have tones of ideas for it. Don't have time for posting to it right now, but I think should be added.
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Hmm, well, I use 2 phones actually. Those that know me know about my 4 year Motorola V400 (silver flip phone). I've had that thing forever, but within the last year, the battery won't last more than about 3 days. Also, seems the side buttons don't work anymore. I still use it time to time, cuz it is a very sturdy, reliable phone that has served me well.
My other phone (I just swap the SIM cards between the 2 – when one phone is dead, I use the other) is an LG Traxx. It's a slim flip phone. Has a nice large screen for the internal and external display. The nice thing is it has 54MB on onboard RAM (the V400 only has 5MB), plus a slot for a mini-SD card (which I have a 2GB in there loaded with tunes). It plays music, which makes me happy, since my MP3 player broke.
I mainly use them for personal use, infrequently. If the number is not in my list, I don't answer it, but if I voicemail is left, I will get back to you, and will more than likely add your name and number to my list.
I think that's about all.
HA!!! Made my day!! Can't watch that video right now, in class, but I know exactly what it is about! Hellacool!!
Oh hells yeah!! Bout friggin' time. I don't even care if it's a remake of the original, cuz the game was just that awesome. That could be a really interesting game on the Wii. Keep me posted on this!!
To me, it doesn't matter how old Kurt Russell gets nobody but HIM should EVER play Snake (unless he's no longer around). They need to get off their butts, forget about a remake, and make the final movie, like you said, with Kurt Russell. And I'd be happy. If they ever decided to do the prequel, Escape from Cleveland, I could probably except someone else playing Snake (since he'd have to be really young), as long as he looked very similar to Kurt Russell.
That is one of the most hilarious things I've read in a long time. You've either gotta be brilliant to come up with that answer or be a total jacka$$. Hilarious reading material.
Yes, Knoppix is awesome to have around, it's already gotten my butt outta 2 different situations today.
Ok, maybe I was a little too jumpy about blaming my hard drive as the main culprit to my problems. I ran WD's Data Life Diagnostic tools (DOS version), and ran the extended test 3 times, and every time it said no errors. So, I wrote all zeros to the hard drive, and reinstalled Windows, again.
Here's the interesting part. Last fall, I purchased 2 Rosewill IDE to SATA adapters for my optical drives, so I could use SATA cables instead of the big, bulky IDE cables. Well, it turns out, maybe through a hardware bug, I can't install Windows with the adapters plugged in. So, I have to take them out and put the IDE cables back. Not a big deal, until I noticed something tonight: with both optical drives (DVD-ROM and CD-RW), they wouldn't work — powering up or being recognized by BIOS. But, if I just plug my CD-RW drive in by itself, the system works fine.
I've spent the last 3 hours updating, patching, and installing programs, and no MFT error yet. Now, my engineering roommate has a theory; he thinks that the IDE to SATA adapters might be fighting with the motherboard for supremacy, causing buffer errors, which would explain the delayed write failed error. But the thing is, I've been running those adapters in my system since last September, and this problem has only been recent. Which brings him to another theory; that maybe when my other power supply was failing, those adapters (which are like little chip boards) might have taken a surge from the failing PS, something that may not have bothered the rest of my hardware, but may have seriously affected the adapters.
So, for the time being, I'm gonna try running my system with just 1 IDE optical drive, and my 2 SATA hard drives, and see what happens, cuz I have til March 6 to return my hard drive to WD. And if I don't have any problems, I'll try and contact WD to see if they can retract my RMA, so I can save if for another time (assuming my HDD isn't bad). Let's just hope that my motherboard isn't failing, cuz this has been an awesome board (and an ASUS I was looking at tonight for an AMD64 754 is still $110, ouch).
So, I'll keep posting here about my progress. And yes, Tim, I know, I haven't been on in awhile, but 2 months of computer problems will do that to someone. If my system stays stable. I should be back regularly.
Yeah, I'm going to work on the permissions here soon, as soon as I figure out what the hell my PC is doing.
Yeah, I really want an Army of Darkness 2. My room mates haven't seen Army of Darkness yet, only the Evil Dead movies, so I'm thinking sometime this week I'll put the movie on. I know they're going to enjoy it.
On the TF question, I do remember seeing one of the trailers awhile back. But anyway, I think something got screwed up in the permissions, so I think I fixed them, so you should be able to post in there now, Scott. If not, send me a PM.
Well, it appears tonight that I got my last Mft error. My 80GB hard drive seems to have given up. I requested an RMA number from Western Digital, and I should be shipping it out later this week. I'm running my computer on Knoppix 5.1 right now, which at least still allows me to listen to my tunes. And since I don't have internet on my computer now (I can't get Linux to setup and work my wireless adapter), I'm making these posts on the living room computer.
Really ticks me off all this bad stuff keeps happening — my computer giving me hassle, my favorite jeans ripping, and a traffic ticket. And cuz of the last one, I'm gonna have almost no money left to my name. If I didn't have bad luck, I won't have any luck at all, as my mom says.
Yeah, that seems to be a good idea. Have you sent an email to the 2 newbies yet? If so, and you haven't had a response, I'd say it'd be time to delete their accounts.
