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    Need a Hard Drive

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

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    It is a good feeling not to care about how much stuff I put on my computer.

    No more space management!  (w00t)

    Don't worry, soon you'll wonder where all those 233Gb gone. ;)

    Gods! Ain't that the truth! When I added my first drive ( a whopping 60 Gb! ), I figured I would be set for life :lol: . Idiot! That only started the trend of saving anything and everything. That drive filled up so I added a PCI expander card and a 120 Gb drive. Upgraded to WinXP. Then a 250 Gb. Lost a 60 Gb folder. G**D**mit! Almost put match to fuse to the Presario over that one ( still looking forward to it! Soon. Very soon. :( ). Bought data recovery software, recovered folder and bought another 250 to back up the first. This is stupid so I bought a 320. Built a new rig with two motherboards so that the first could act as an archive and drive controller. Then a second 320. Then a third when I caught them on sale. Damn cables! Bought a USB hub and IDE to USB adapters. This computer is a freeking mess. Bought a 500 Gb SATA and started consolidating and indexing so I can find this crap. Now a 750 Gb SATA and even more consolidating ( will index drive some day maybe ). Now I need another 500 and 750 to back up the data on the two large drives in case they crash ;) . Moron! :D

     

    The stupidity never ends. ;)

     

    Carefull Bok. We're not supposed to be admitting these little weaknesses. :lol:

    Need a Hard Drive

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

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    Right now I'm feeling a bit of a squeeze with my 160GB drive. My next computer is definitely going to have a "tarna" level storage space. :rolleyes:

    :D You can never have too much HD space. I built my wife a gaming computer last year for Yule ( Christmas ) with a 100 Gb drive. I loaded 40 Gb worth of games right from the start and it hasn't gotten any better. It was a SATA1 drive so that helped with loading/starting the software but I have the feeling I'll be upgrading her system soon. :- She plays casino games so her system doesn't take up the same resources that a 'real' gaming rig would but she still needs HD space.

     

    Check your motherboard's BIOS abilities and get at least a 500 Gb ( check on ebay ). You won't be disappointed. Any secondary drives will be controlled by WinXP ( or Vista ) so you don't need to worry about it's size.

    Need a Hard Drive

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

    Posted

    With the 1 TB milestone in mind, we can't help looking back at the history at hard drives. Hitachi reminded us that the first hard drive, released in 1956, stored 5 MB of data and was priced at $50,000 - or $10,000 per MB. 35 years later, in 1991, the industry had reached 1 GB and first mass-market gigabyte drives were entering the market around 1995 for about $500. Twelve years later, the industry has overcome serious concerns of how to keep increasing hard drive storage densities and is looking towards hard drives with multiple terabytes of storage capacity. Compared to a $10,000/MB price in 1956, a capacity of 1 GB is priced today at about 40 cents.

     

    :D I remember seeing pictures of some of those drives. Monstrous! The platters were the size of 33 1/3 RPM vinyl records ( you kids wouldn't remember that :rolleyes: ) and were coated with a metal ceramic mixture.

     

    Back in the 80s when I was a programmer, you couldn't kill for enough memory. Now it's almost free. :joy: Probably why I hoard as much as I do. My computer has way more space than the entire county network I used to use ( my college too! ). I used to lock up the college system by placing too high of a demand on it's resources to make artwork for my apartment. Since it was also time-shared out to the accounting depts of some oil companies, the school got a little pissy about this.

     

    One of the few benefits of being an old geezer...you have the benefit of perspective.

    Need a Hard Drive

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

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    Since I can't edit my last post I'll have to double post here...

     

    Tarna, what do you think about the new 1TB drives from Hitachi? Any plans to purchase one (or several) of those? :rolleyes:"

    Don't know anything about Hitachi's drive record so I haven't bought any. The only Tb drives I've seen ( I really haven't been looking too hard though ) have been smaller drives RAIDed together to get a Tb. I have had a good run with Western Digital and Seagate has a good rep as well as a 5 year warranty. I figure if they have that much confidence in their drives, they're not planning on replacing too many.

     

    Surrep...I haven't had any problems with my larger drives. Because of their size though, I will be adding secondary drives as redunancies. I had though about mirroring 750s to have automatic back-ups but a virus or any screw-up would corrupt both drives so I just make the copies by hand. Time consuming but safer.

    Need a Hard Drive

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

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    I just bought ( and formatted a 750 Gb [ 3 hrs!!! ] and transfered the data). Seagate is quiet as hell . Standard drive ( as far as speed is concerned ).

     

    What exactly do you do with all your hard drive space? Don't you also have several 500GB drives as well?

    I've got a 500 ( Seagate ), 3 320s ( Western Digital ), 2 250s ( also WD ) and several smaller drives. The 750 was to consolidate my stuff onto just two drives.

     

    Movies, music, board records form several boards, downloaded software, webpages. Pretty much anything that I think I might need at some point. The filing system to locate the data was a nightmare though. :)

     

    He has detailed files ... :ph34r:

    You might be surprised. :)

    Canada is spying on the US!!!

    in Way Off-Topic

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    Everyone spies on everyone, even Hungary has spies in the US, and many in better positions.

     

    (and noone would ever believe it anyway)

     

     

     

    Yeah I remember hearing something about that. How they were hoping to steal secrets and bring hygiene to Hungaria. How did that ever work out?

    Be nice Laozi. No remarks about hygiene concerning the 'unwashed masses'. :rolleyes:

    You wouldn't want you ancestors described as such.

    Canada is spying on the US!!!

    in Way Off-Topic

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    No thanks I can find my own way to prison.

    But can you do it with style? :D

     

    And for a disclaimer...the Federal Communications Commission would definitely frown on such a use of microwaves. Since it also screws up radio in most all bands, the local police would be very eager to have an intimate conversation with you as well ( probably involving cavity searches just to humiliate you for troubling them ).

     

    BTW - The Ruskies built such devices into the Russian built US embassy back in the 80's as 'spy' devices. Microwave emission causes confusion at low power. Higher power causes the above mentioned 'medium rare to well done' results in humans. Burned human flesh smells very bad.

    Canada is spying on the US!!!

    in Way Off-Topic

    Posted

    You guys need to experiment more! Microwave ovens only affect a small variety of metal. Throw a handfull of change into your oven and turn it on. It will not react with most metals. Gold, iron and tin are bad choices where a microwave oven is concerned. Most others are ignored ( they will warm slightly though ).

     

    For some real Mr Wizard fun, toss a small florescent bulb into your microwave and turn it on. Make sure that the electical terminals at either end are not touching the sides. It'll light up nicely. I've got a small 'black-light' bulb as well as one that is a hideous shade of green. Very bizzare.

     

    A 'rule of thumb' with microwave experiments...if it throws sparks, it's probably not a good idea. Otherwise have fun. I tore one apart one years ago and 'rebuilt' it to induce voltage onto car stereos that rattled my windows when some jerk-off didn't have the courtesy to turn his tunes down in a residential neighborhood. :p

    High voltage in a car stereo usually doesn't do good things to it. Had to be carefull where the microware 'spray' went though. Microwaves affect pacemakers. :lol:

    Canada is spying on the US!!!

    in Way Off-Topic

    Posted

    (I got one that looks almost russian back has a giant five and the word KO(II)EEK the II is connected at the top.)

    The word 'Kopyek' is the Russian equivelent to dollar.

     

    This sound like BS but if it is true and they are using the exterior metal of the coin as the transmitting 'antenna', a simple trip to the nearest microwave would destroy the internals of the device. This will BTW, also destroy any hidden RDF chips that are being considered being added to clothing and what-not. Can't have Sears 'seeing' what size and colour of Victoria's Secrets underwear that Sand is wearing that day. :lol:

    How do I transfer my email to a different computer

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

    Posted

    C:\Documents and Settings\"Account Username"\"Local Definitions"\Application Data\Identities\"bunch of numbers and letters"\Microsoft\Outlook Express\

    I could have used that address earlier! :angry:

    I did locate it but it took a bit of time.

     

    Edit: If you do a search for all *.dbx files, you should find the right folder.

    Outlook's DBX file didn't show up in a search ( probably for security reasons ), that's why I had to hunt for it manually.

     

    I placed it in the same location on the other computer and it wasn't acknowledged as even being present.

     

    Meta's first link looks like it might have promise. The second doesn't.

    How do I transfer my email to a different computer

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

    Posted

    I've already tried that by setting up the same email on a 'static' computer and placing the 54 Mb file in the 'Inbox' of that account. It did not recognise it's presence.

    I did 'not' however, import it but don't know that it would make a difference because of the format being used.

     

    I might add that this is the last thing preventing me from ripping the final original component out of my Presario and making it into a somewhat proper system.

    I really want to get this accomplished soon.

    How do I transfer my email to a different computer

    in Skeeter's Junkyard

    Posted

    I'm running a POS P3 for the internet. Motherboard is dying and I am using Outlook Express for my email ( no wise-cracks guys! :p ). I have around 2000 various emails with documents, names, addresses and whatnot that I want to save to put back on my new computer. 2000 emails is a bit much to save by hand and I have found the DBX file ( encrypted ) that holds my email. Someone told me that I should download another email program and transfer it to that and then save the folder and reload it to the same software when I get my system finished.

     

    Thoughts? Suggestions?

    Wisdom Teeth

    in Way Off-Topic

    Posted

    Not much in the way of horror stories as much as examples of stupidity on my part. :joy:

     

    Christmas eve several years ago I decided to get some work done on a machine when no one would be bothering me. I tear apart a large fan at a hotel and proceed to rebuild it. I'm almost done reassembling it. Cool! Life is good! I'm tightening the main pully ( @ 1 metre ) and my wrench slips and I clock myself in the nuts. Frigging OUCH! :ermm: After I have a cigarette and get the colour back in my face, I decide that I'll be smarter than my dull wrench and position myself in the opposite direction and pull the wrench toward me instead of pushing it away from me. I'm working in a tight spot with no light so I have a small flashlight in my mouth as I work. Idiot! Guess what? The wrench slips again. The momentum of my arm brings the wrench upward and then downward onto that very same flashlight. Now I'm running my tongue across my teeth and figuring this is not a good thing as I'm spitting blood on the floor. I have grease up to my elbows. I finish putting the fan back together, find a place to wash my hands and look into a mirror. Jesus. My three front teeth were so buck-toothed that I could bite the back side of a frigging apple. Pushing my teeth back into my face, I have my wife call our dentist's emergency number and ask if I should be seen now or if it could wait. He laughed and said he would come in a do some temporary work until we could figure out what was needed after the holidays. I killed three front teeth by cutting the nerves when I blew them out. I also got to listen to the SOB sing "All I Want For Christmas Is My Three Front Teeth". Bastard! :D I go home and listen to my wife describe a dinner of steak, corn on the cob, apples, that sort of thing. "Give me my GD porridge and shut up woman!" My kids were greatly amused and I'm still hearing about it from everyone involved. This was in 1999.

     

    The Elder Gods had it right when they ate their young! :-

     

    Just before New Years a few years ago I went in for a hernia. I knew I had one and figured it was a good time to get it taken care of. After a rather intimate exam that I would have normally expected dinner and a movie to be involved ( as well as a woman! ), the good Herr Doktor told me that I had a double. Dandy! I go in for surgery a couple of days later and when I wake up the wife is waiving an 8 x 10 glossy under my nose showing that I had a triple. Cool, leave me alone and let me enjoy what's left of my anestesia buzz woman! Go home and what do they have as a movie for me? "Pirates of the Caribean"! I hate Johnny Depp. His acting still sucks. The percodan, assisted by a few rum and cokes made the movie tolerable.

    Sorry , I'm new here

    in Way Off-Topic

    Posted

    In that case they should be flayed alive.

    I'd suggested punching a nail throught their foot and then pulling their toenails with a pair of pliers ( after a Draino enema with a pressure washer ) but the Law takes a dim view of this sort of appropriate justice. :thumbsup:

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