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Post by aubrey on Mar 31, 2011 10:56:06 GMT
My computer's buggered - after three months (I'm doing this in safe mode). Someone's coming to pick it up - god knows when.
I have two accounts with file hosts that I can't use until I get it fixed.
I have a bunch of films and music that I haven't saved yet, and can't (I did a big saving thing last weekend, and saved about 20 DVDs worth, or else it would be much worse.
I have a bunch of radio stuff that I got off a torrent (very slowly) that I was going to save onto DVd yesterday - just before the thing broke (I had meant to do it on Tuesday but forgot). One was a play with Tom Courtney about Stan Laurel that I meant to record for my mother, this weekend.
Oh bugger oh bugger oh bugger.
(I'm just mithering, really.)
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Post by Weyland on Mar 31, 2011 12:00:39 GMT
My computer's buggered - after three months (I'm doing this in safe mode). Someone's coming to pick it up - god knows when. I have two accounts with file hosts that I can't use until I get it fixed. I have a bunch of films and music that I haven't saved yet, and can't (I did a big saving thing last weekend, and saved about 20 DVDs worth, or else it would be much worse. I have a bunch of radio stuff that I got off a torrent (very slowly) that I was going to save onto DVd yesterday - just before the thing broke (I had meant to do it on Tuesday but forgot). One was a play with Tom Courtney about Stan Laurel that I meant to record for my mother, this weekend. Oh bugger oh bugger oh bugger. (I'm just mithering, really.) Assuming all that stuff was on your hard-drive, it's not necessarily lost unless the disk is actually physically damaged. Were there any grinding noises? You didn't spill salad cream on it, did you? Here's hoping the repairer knows what s/he's doing, and is not tempted to just reformat. I backup to a removable HDD these days (£27 for 320GB, on offer at Staples) though I probably don't do it often enough. Software exists that will back a system up automatically at set intervals, or on the fly. [ramble] That's the way it's always been done on the mainframes which still run the planet, all the way back to the Dawn of Mainframes in the 1950s. This one's from about 1966 . . . That's the same model I started on, probably before most of the people here were born. Only ours was blue. Those boxes in the foreground are HDDs, bigger than washing machines. A hundred of them wouldn't hold as much data as the £27 item I mentioned above. Three shifts, non-stop. In a rage, a friend of mine poured a cup of coffee over the console typewriter one memorable nightshift. Had no discernable effect whatsoever. They don't build them like that anymore. (He runs a shop and a B&B in Rothbury now.) Happy days. [/ramble]
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Post by rjpageuk on Mar 31, 2011 12:59:58 GMT
Yeah Weyland is right. Make sure you tell whoever is coming to pick your PC up that you have a lot of stuff on the hard drive you dont want to lose.
It is more than likely that it is not lost yet.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Mar 31, 2011 13:56:04 GMT
'Puters are great, until they mess up, then they are annoying bastards who's sole intent is to do your head in. Hope to see you back with us soon, Aubs. Edit: And for Gods sake, invest in an external HDD when you can, they aren't massively expensive and you can back up everything that you don't want to lose. AH
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Post by everso on Mar 31, 2011 14:29:28 GMT
Oh poor old Aubs! Loss of a computer is almost as bad as loss of a washing machine. Weyland, that photo reminds me of the whole of the seventh floor of the place where I worked in London in the sixties. It was the computer department. I never actually went up there because it was a vair vair mysterious place where people worked round the clock and were given taxi rides home when they were on the late shift. It was all a bit scary.
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Post by Weyland on Mar 31, 2011 14:55:25 GMT
Oh poor old Aubs! Loss of a computer is almost as bad as loss of a washing machine. Weyland, that photo reminds me of the whole of the seventh floor of the place where I worked in London in the sixties. It was the computer department. I never actually went up there because it was a vair vair mysterious place where people worked round the clock and were given taxi rides home when they were on the late shift. It was all a bit scary. Those were the days, Ev. Mere mortals were not allowed into the Computer Suite unless for very special reasons, such as firemen and women programmers, and then only under armed guard. After I was an Operator for a while, I was promoted to Systems Programmer. In other words, a High Priest. Nothing to do with commercial muck such as payrolls, but concerned with the spells that actually control the Space-Time Continuum, via the Logic Gates on the Silicon Substrates in the bowels of the Great Machine. Magic. And that's how we liked it. The fun we had! Happy, happy days.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Mar 31, 2011 15:52:53 GMT
Adeptus Mechanicus... AH
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 31, 2011 15:57:54 GMT
Hold on everybody. Hold your goddarned horses.
This is AUBREY we're talking about here. AUBREY. I can't bring myself to imagine what genres of horror porn and the like he has on his hard drive.
I think it's very brave of him to allow his hard drive to be taken away by anyone. A European Arrest Warrant can only follow . . .
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Post by aubrey on Mar 31, 2011 17:00:39 GMT
(Riot) I've wondered about that. But sod it. I got an external hard drive a few years ago but it seemed to go dead after not very long. I do back up quite often, onto DVDs, but I tend to do it at the weekends, and when I've got a decent run of things (IE - series of TV programmes, a disc full of Jess Franco or 70s Danish stuff. There's nothing illegal though. I might just get some looks - but not even that, as it's being picked up by a courier company. I asked it the disc could be kept intact, but the bloke said he couldn't promise that. The worst thing is torrents of radio programmes that would take quite a long time to get again, if they're still up, that is. But thank you all for your kind words.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 31, 2011 20:52:31 GMT
OK - I've just managed to make a cd of Tom Courtney in a play about Stan Laurel going to see Babe Hardy as he was dying. It's for my mother, as she likes TC. Thinking about the end of the play just now made me fill up.
I might be able to put some radio stuff onto my MP3 player, as well - I'll try tomorrow.
The films, though - Lemora, The Sins of Sister Lucia (Japanese Nunsploitation, of all things) and a load of Grateful Dead live recordings - I'll just have to redownload those. Chiz.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 5, 2011 19:35:57 GMT
Well, I've just tried the old 320gb external drive I've got that I thought was broken, and found that it works after all (I did not dare try it properly when it seemed that it wasn't coming on, since if it wasn't definitely broken the stuff I had on it wasn't definitely lost. And then I forgot).
So I'm copying stuff onto it now.
Yay!!
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Post by aubrey on Apr 6, 2011 15:33:10 GMT
Oh, I mean: And it's being picked up tomorrow.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 26, 2011 15:26:42 GMT
Yay!
Fixed!
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Post by everso on Apr 26, 2011 16:16:46 GMT
Hurrah!
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