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Lazy8
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:43pm |
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AugieK wrote:Working harder than ever for less reward (got contacted the other day about a possibility to change that, but we'll see), and in general I just don't do much online interaction anymore.
Jeez, you must sleep or sumpin'. Someday I might try that. I hear it's nice.
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BlueHeronDruid
Location: Заебани сме луѓе
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:42pm |
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Beaker wrote:And a big believer in RAID. And NAS. And UPSes. Last night we had the second lengthy power failure here in a month. Sure do like my UPS units keeping the important bits operating. Unfortunately, a powered sub on the home audio system wasn't protected with a decent surge suppressing power bar at the time of the first outage - and it took a hit then. No more sub until I fix the thing. One close lightning strike that fried hobbitt's work computer and the telephone on his desk (not to mention the spa pack on our hot tub) AND the "surge protector" was all it took for us to go the UPS route. (And for me to run for the circuit breaker for the hot tub at every approaching electrical storm... )
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Lazy8
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:38pm |
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islander wrote:The end result is that most of my systems are old, and I never throw anything away because I might need the spare bits for another project. I even save up the old 1,2,9,20... Mb drives and disassemble them for the magnets.
You, sir, are hard core.
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AugieK
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:37pm |
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Beaker wrote: Hey there poultry abuser person. How it go?
Hello Canuckian.
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AugieK
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:34pm |
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oldslabsides wrote: Apparently not as busy as yours, or do you just not love us anymore?
Working harder than ever for less reward (got contacted the other day about a possibility to change that, but we'll see), and in general I just don't do much online interaction anymore.
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Lazy8
Location: The Gallatin Valley of Montana Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:28pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:I've heard horror stories, but have yet to have one die on me. Just wonderin'.
It only takes once. Makes a big believer in backups out of ya.
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islander
Location: West coast somewhere Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:04pm |
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AugieK wrote:My daughter recently resurrected a 9 year old laptop as a linux box (Lazy, it's the one I had when we worked together), I have a 3 year old laptop I bought from my former employer when my job was exported to California, I have an almost exactly 1 year old one that that same company bought me when they re-hired me on contract (still have a crackberry with coverage from them too, though I don't use it except for gps and the occasional international drunk dial ), and I have a 6 month old one from my current job. The desktop got updated last summer. I'd have Jrzy tied, except the unix laptop my daughter is playing with is seldom in my house. Then again, she has her own < 1 year old one, which is here whenever she is. I've been really successful using various flavors of linux on OLD laptops. I always break the screen somehow and have a good unit w/ no display. They make neat projects if you can get them to boot w/ the video out port working - I have 2 or 3 set up that way now (only one actually doing anything). I have 2 Dell laptops that I use frequently - the 'work machine' is a 2 year old Lattitude, and the boat machine is about the same vintage inspiron w/ a nice screen for movies. So my count is something like 4 or 5 laptops that will boot and run something, and 2 or 3 dead ones that I haven't mucked with yet. I also have 3 desktops that will boot (media machine, file store/dns/load balancer/packet inspector, and Mrs. Islander's machine), and enough bits to build at least one more. I have tons of old crap. My problem is that it's usually just a single component that dies, and then the pieces can be re-cobbled w/ the other spares to make a new frankenputer with reasonable results. The end result is that most of my systems are old, and I never throw anything away because I might need the spare bits for another project. I even save up the old 1,2,9,20... Mb drives and disassemble them for the magnets.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 7:00pm |
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ptooey wrote:Which one?
I've got a collection of functional machines that range in age from about 10 years (brick of a Dell laptop) to brand spankin' (Asus eee)...and quite a few in between.
Oh yeah - I forgot about my ancient IBM Thinkpad. P133 running Windoze 95 for playing a couple of old games on.
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emeraldrose63
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:58pm |
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ptooey
Location: right behind you. no, over there. Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:57pm |
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Which one?
I've got a collection of functional machines that range in age from about 10 years (brick of a Dell laptop) to brand spankin' (Asus eee)...and quite a few in between.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:55pm |
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cookinlover wrote: I heard this is a good tool for that.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:53pm |
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AugieK wrote: How's life, my friend?
Apparently not as busy as yours, or do you just not love us anymore?
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cookinlover
Location: Auckland, New Zealand (former Boston native and Atlanta transplant) Gender:
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:51pm |
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oldslabsides wrote: Cool. We'll backup all your stuff and then flush all that Dell crap off the drive and do a clean install. I think that'll fix your bugginess and printer problems.
I heard this is a good tool for that.
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AugieK
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:50pm |
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oldslabsides wrote:duck kicker! How's life, my friend?
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:47pm |
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triskele wrote: i don't have a dell, but ok....and you can start on the back ups while i am at work that day during your stay
I thought it was a Dell - but you know me.
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:46pm |
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AugieK wrote:My daughter recently resurrected a 9 year old laptop as a linux box (Lazy, it's the one I had when we worked together), I have a 3 year old laptop I bought from my former employer when my job was exported to California, I have an almost exactly 1 year old one that that same company bought me when they re-hired me on contract (still have a crackberry with coverage from them too, though I don't use it except for gps and the occasional international drunk dial ), and I have a 6 month old one from my current job. The desktop got updated last summer. I'd have Jrzy tied, except the unix laptop my daughter is playing with is seldom in my house. Then again, she has her own < 1 year old one, which is here whenever she is. duck kicker!
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:45pm |
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Beaker wrote: In my own gear? Ummm. *thinks real hard* Maybe one. Maybe zero. Can't recall for absolute sure. Way back when in the days of 120/240/540 MB IDE drives. As in, long long ago...
I've heard horror stories, but have yet to have one die on me. Just wonderin'.
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AugieK
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:45pm |
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My daughter recently resurrected a 9 year old laptop as a linux box (Lazy, it's the one I had when we worked together), I have a 3 year old laptop I bought from my former employer when my job was exported to California, I have an almost exactly 1 year old one that that same company bought me when they re-hired me on contract (still have a crackberry with coverage from them too, though I don't use it except for gps and the occasional international drunk dial ), and I have a 6 month old one from my current job. The desktop got updated last summer. I'd have Jrzy tied, except the unix laptop my daughter is playing with is seldom in my house. Then again, she has her own < 1 year old one, which is here whenever she is.
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triskele
Location: The Dragons' Roost
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:45pm |
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oldslabsides wrote: Cool. We'll backup all your stuff and then flush all that Dell crap off the drive and do a clean install. I think that'll fix your bugginess and printer problems.
i don't have a dell, but ok....and you can start on the back ups while i am at work that day during your stay
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Red_Dragon
Location: Dumbf*ckistan
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Apr 21, 2009 - 6:44pm |
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cookinlover wrote:My stinkin' computer is 3 months old. That's because my other stinkin' computer, which was like 6 stinkin' years old, crapped out on me with all my stinkin' junk stuck inside it forever. That stinks. I guess I could hire one of those stinkin' computer forensic guys to rip the old stinkin' computer apart and retrieve the old junk, but it's just Panda porn, know what I mean? So I'm rebuilding all my stinkin' junk on the new one. I don't have a stinkin' laptop, though.
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