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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13110 on: December 19, 2007, 09:33:12 PM »
that was one of the few things we disagreed on; she liked coke and i liked pepsi  8)

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13111 on: December 20, 2007, 11:16:11 AM »
I wonder if the opal frost window film will change the colour of the light getting through.  The white etched looks nicer, but I want something that'll completely obscure the window, and the white etched looks like it's too easy to see through.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13112 on: December 20, 2007, 03:13:52 PM »
I'm a fuckking punk for computer equipmwent deals.







I did it again. Something came up at a killer price and I bit.


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I looked, but I could not find the "DEAL."


It was this for fifty six bucks. I just bought two three hundred gig drives a month ago, really cheap, so I DON"T (don't) neeed to buy this, but it was too good of a deal to passs up.




I haven't opened it. I can return it, until the end of january, if I deceide to..




..... or after february, I can ebay it, legallly,,, if it has value still.
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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13113 on: December 20, 2007, 03:51:55 PM »
holy crap. i think i'd have succumbed too.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13114 on: December 20, 2007, 04:12:51 PM »
holy crap. i think i'd have succumbed too.

Yeah.
This store is going to fucking keep me drooling.

I watched a "Last Week's Model" or what ever the FUCK (!) seventy two inch Pioneer plasma, teneighty res, go out the door for twelve hundred bucks, yesterday. I boxed it safely, so it would travel well and then loaded it up. It was a nine thousand dollar television, which I have watched Tunstall dance around on.

:penis:


I try to be serious, but I see them just dumping the old stuff and it is STILL good! I can't think like this. I must keep my eyes forward!

It's OK, but I will never cease to be amazed. Who knows, I might even pick up another deal or two along the way, when the time is wright.
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Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13115 on: December 20, 2007, 10:34:34 PM »
i had an interesting dream to say the least. it's fading from my conscious memory.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13116 on: December 21, 2007, 08:16:08 AM »
Spamming non-game threads is more fun.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13117 on: December 21, 2007, 09:34:05 AM »
holy crap. i think i'd have succumbed too.

I opened it, powered it up and plugged it in. It broke my computer.

:grrr:

It doesn't recognise it, except that it gave me a BSD when I plugged in the USB cable, then a forced re-start. Fucking WinXP!

The drive is formatted in FAT32 FFS! My system got mad about it, I guess.

I don't know why, yet.

I decided to postwhore a bit before I fuck up my net 'puter again.


I have read that I can only have two hard drives (which I already  have), because of some bullshit in Windows, without using some form of RAID. Would that be a problem with a USB external (temporary) drive?
I could easily open it up and unplug the music drive to test this, but if someone already knows it will save me the trouble if I am being stupid.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13118 on: December 21, 2007, 10:10:56 AM »


I have read that I can only have two hard drives (which I already  have), because of some bullshit in Windows, without using some form of RAID.

That makes NO sense. Why should you need
a redundancy system, in order to have more
drives? If so, there has to be a way of tricking
windows into thinking that you do.

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Would that be a problem with a USB external (temporary) drive?

Can't see why. Then again, I don't get why you'd
need the RAID system. It just doesn't make sense.
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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13119 on: December 21, 2007, 10:38:00 AM »
I don't see why it would be a problem - Win XP recognises my old external CD writer as a USB mass storage device, I would expect an external HDD to be detected the same way. fuck knows why they formatted it as FAT32 though.  ::)

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13120 on: December 21, 2007, 11:13:52 AM »


I have read that I can only have two hard drives (which I already  have), because of some bullshit in Windows, without using some form of RAID.

That makes NO sense. Why should you need
a redundancy system, in order to have more
drives? If so, there has to be a way of tricking
windows into thinking that you do.

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Would that be a problem with a USB external (temporary) drive?

Can't see why. Then again, I don't get why you'd
need the RAID system. It just doesn't make sense.
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It probably has to do with the inadequacy in the IDE system, which my old computer has and the fact that they only put two IDE channels on a mobo.

RAID was one way of getting around this and using more than four total devices. Before huge drives, RAID 0 was often used to increase capacity for digital imaging storage. Kind of stupid, when some of the Sun systems were already available. I did that on my old Win 95 box. Raid was the only way I had to have eight (12 gig! hahaha) drives at hand.
I have always had more music files than I knew what to do with.
It was stupid, but it worked. This doesn't, yet.
:D
« Last Edit: December 21, 2007, 11:22:53 AM by DirtDawg »
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13121 on: December 21, 2007, 11:19:34 AM »
That I don't want to go to a Christmas party my supplier is having right now but thinking I have to make an appearance or they will be offended
"Eat it up.  Wear it out.  Make it do or do without." 

'People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.'
George Bernard Shaw

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13122 on: December 21, 2007, 11:20:37 AM »
I don't see why it would be a problem - Win XP recognises my old external CD writer as a USB mass storage device, I would expect an external HDD to be detected the same way. fuck knows why they formatted it as FAT32 though.  ::)

Really odd to use FAT32*, considering that it is "approved" for use in Vista.

I tried it again a bit ago and the same thing happened. nothing at first, them BSD, re-start.

Not cool.

I'll figure it out though. There is surely something on the WD brand website to help.






*I guess I'm wrong. All these things seem to use FAT32.

I just don't know why. Isn't it even worse than NTFS at fragmenting files?
« Last Edit: December 21, 2007, 11:51:00 AM by DirtDawg »
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13123 on: December 21, 2007, 01:43:11 PM »
Drama over.

I reset the USB section back to default settings in the BIOS and it recognized the drive on the next start-up. I don't remember changing them to begin with, but everything else still works, too.

So, I'm happy.

 :zoinks:



*my working theory, which I plan to act on in the near future, is that I am simply running out of power supply and suffering a voltage drop. I unplugged the little remote control sensor and a printer, which I no longer use, reset the USB to default and no more trouble. Since I had all this stuff hooked up in the past I have added a power hungry sound card and video card.

::)
« Last Edit: December 21, 2007, 04:07:29 PM by DirtDawg »
Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: Post what you're thinking right now.
« Reply #13124 on: December 21, 2007, 02:51:38 PM »
Various thoughts that are ebbing and flowing thru my mind like the tide.