Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ha ! 50 go ! 50 go was just a dream when i bought my first one, it seems. i just checked my records and it looks like the first one i bought, in 2000, was FIFTEEN go !!! the entire thing ! for system and data !!! my god, i don't know how i managed. and i paid 669Francs for it, which is 102€ according to a handy online converter.

my last hard drive, which is 1To as i mentioned, cost me 71.80€, in november 2008.

I bought my first hard drive in 1983. $800 US for 10 Megabytes (bare drive)...

Now I can buy 12 Terabytes for that price... that's a million times more storage in 27 years, and the dollars buy less food and such...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Clytie

I read about 40 pages of this very entertaining thread, until I finally noticed that it was 1089 pages long... (duh) so might be a lifelong activity.

Hoping it's not against the thread rules, I have a multi-rant.

wow. clytie, your rant reminded me of one of our seminal australian-book-industry-shortcomings rants, by none other than seminal australian llounge llama montsnmags. it *may* comfort you to discover that buying paper books in australia can be similarly frought with peril (well, probably not really, but i hear misery loves company, so at least you'll know you're not alone). you've got all my sympathy. i live in france, and to be honest we're probably even worse off than you (trying to make you feel better, not one-up you), because not only do we get slammed with all the same geo-restrictions as you lot do, but quite a lot of us don't even read english (i know, you're stunned ), and let me tell you, the selection of ebooks available in french is still, well, pitiful, even compared to the selection available in english to france.

a tiny word of advice that hopefully will at the least preserve you from similar infuriating frustration in future ; there are ways to get rid of drm from your ebooks, so you don't have to worry about activating them etc. as long as you keep backups. i can't tell you explicitly how on the forum, but for getting rid of adobe's drm, try googling something like "adobe inept drm". i do this for all my ebooks and i was never so glad as after i reinstalled windows and discovered i can no longer download my .lit (MS Reader format) books from my fictionwise bookshelf nor open the ones on my harddrive, and i can't get into my stupid "password" account to reactivate the bloody thing either.

anyway, feel free to rant whever you like, it's been elevated to an art form around here.

I could tell you about my adventures with a "negative marketing" online retailer, but I've probably ranted enough for today.

so, tomorrow then ?

Thanks for the thread. I've enjoyed the discussions, and my family also rescues abandoned/damaged cats (although I myself am a dog person). These cats tend to have odd but endearing personalities. Sadly, you lose some, because they're just too damaged by the time they find you, or you find them.

i am always encouraged when i hear of people who do that ; it gives me hope for humankind in general to know there are people showing that amount of kindness and generosity to animals.

I read a couple of posts about surviving your kids, including the one about apology cards for new parents. Do you think there are any for parents of teenagers or adult children?

something to look into, certainly.

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I managed to get out of my clothes without going to school (and when I did it at school they used to send me home to think about what I'd done).

Incidentally, I'm nude right now (which I seem to often be while MR'ing).

Off to spa...

nude ?? what ??? i'm shocked, shocked i tell you !! and i here i thought i could always count on you to have a pair of undies on your head.

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

I want pix of the pjs. Come on I posted the blue kitties!

seconded !

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Trying to disable a heavily guarded Manticore with a puny (but fast) Starbridge

This is going to take some time...

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Well, this is a Manticore (image is not very good), and the ship on the EV Nova logo is a Starbridge.

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Better images:

Starbridge
Manticore

wow, florence, even after the links and images i have no idea what you're talking about, but i wish you luck !

Originally Posted by nomesque

Wow, surrounded by naked men... *faints*

....vr ? ...is that you ?

Originally Posted by GeoffC

you're definitely overdue for a rise .....

i like the way you think.

[beppe]

In this moment I am the patriarch. I have AdultDaughter with Grandchid and LittleDaughter. Sunny, on the lawn, everybody happy and laughing. Adults drink Leffe from the bottle, not me, children water from micro bottles of Evian. Bless you

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Just finished rebuilding my computer setup. 5 computers, 9 Tera hooked up, two monitors, keyboards, and mice, plus a Optiscan 3600, and a small stereo.

The Hole is loaded and ready for action...

Crank up the Billy Idol...

Hee-Hee.....I'm thinking of upgrading to win7-64 today....but right now got called in on a computer issue from work! And I'm not even the on-call person!!!

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

I bought my first hard drive in 1983. $800 US for 10 Megabytes (bare drive)...

Now I can buy 12 Terabytes for that price... that's a million times more storage in 27 years, and the dollars buy less food and such...

wow. and just imagine if i had bought my 1to harddrive for the same (proportional) price as my original 15go drive ! (...divided by 15... carry the... times 1024...) if i've done the maths properly (no guarantee, i can tell my coffee never took effect today) it would have cost me 6963€ !!!!!

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Just finished rebuilding my computer setup. 5 computers, 9 Tera hooked up, two monitors, keyboards, and mice, plus a Optiscan 3600, and a small stereo.

Wow... impressive. How is the 9TB configured? Is it a NAS of some kind or on a Windows Home Server machine? RAID?

What do you store on it?

I feel so small with only 2TB of external storage hooked to my iMac. a 500GB that holds backups and a 1.5TB that holds my digital media.

I am about to scan in all our photos soon though... so I might pick up another 2TB drive soon.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

9 terra ??? NINE terra ???? of hard drive ?????? i am in awe. and maybe a bit jealous. if i had 9 terra available to me i could probably rip and get rid of all my dvds and all my cds (of course, the question of whether i could actually bring myself to part with certain of them, like my boxed set of the thin man movies, is another pair of sleeves), and still have plenty of room for my gigantic work files. wow.

I have (still in the process) ripped all my DVDs. I encode them all as H.264 cause I really don't care about all the extras. Also for the TV show ones I want each TV show as its own file.

However, I don't plan to get rid of the DVDs, but do plan to move them to a less accessible place. This will give us more room on book shelfs for my Board Games and Video Games and the few books I decided to keep after going ebook.

I love the geeky posts!

BOb

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wow... impressive. How is the 9TB configured? Is it a NAS of some kind or on a Windows Home Server machine? RAID?

hey, good question ! i was so awestruck by the number itself i completely forgot to ask that.

What do you store on it?

what *wouldn't* you store on it ??? it's NINE TERRAS man !!!

I feel so small with only 2TB of external storage hooked to my iMac. a 500GB that holds backups and a 1.5TB that holds my digital media.

i know, that's how i feel too.

I am about to scan in all our photos soon though... so I might pick up another 2TB drive soon.

okay, seriously, if everybody is doing it, i'm going to have to buy a new harddrive or two as well. (rubs hands together gleefully at the thought.)

I have (still in the process) ripped all my DVDs. I encode them all as H.264 cause I really don't care about all the extras. Also for the TV show ones I want each TV show as its own file.

hm, i'm really tempted. those dvd boxes take up ridiculous amounts of space, especially when you consider the size of their actual contents. it's just absurd. i do like the extras (when there are any, which is not always) but i could rip the extras too. i would have to look into codecs and such though since i've never done that before.

However, I don't plan to get rid of the DVDs, but do plan to move them to a less accessible place. This will give us more room on book shelfs for my Board Games and Video Games and the few books I decided to keep after going ebook.

*sigh* if only i had a "less accessible place" to move mine to.

I love the geeky posts!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Kind of defeats the purpose too - hurry up and slow down.

The Loved One is upstairs preparing drinkies and doing preliminaries on chicken shnitty for dinner (he does a very good chicken shnitty).

Cheers,
Marc

Sounds good. Tell him to set another place. What time is dinner?

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Wow... impressive. How is the 9TB configured? Is it a NAS of some kind or on a Windows Home Server machine? RAID?

What do you store on it?

I feel so small with only 2TB of external storage hooked to my iMac. a 500GB that holds backups and a 1.5TB that holds my digital media.

I am about to scan in all our photos soon though... so I might pick up another 2TB drive soon.



I have (still in the process) ripped all my DVDs. I encode them all as H.264 cause I really don't care about all the extras. Also for the TV show ones I want each TV show as its own file.

However, I don't plan to get rid of the DVDs, but do plan to move them to a less accessible place. This will give us more room on book shelfs for my Board Games and Video Games and the few books I decided to keep after going ebook.

I love the geeky posts!

BOb

Well, it's sorts spread out. 5 computers, remember. 2 Aspire Revo's each bumped to 500 gig (2.5) internally, and External USB 2.0 Kingwin Removable dual bay drive, with 2, 2 tera drives in it (That's 5 Tera, right there). Two tower computers (one with 3 Tera in removable cases.) Plus 274 Gig on the ME machine (the other tower) and there's a bunch on the company laptop plugged in right now...

And that's not including the other 2 Tera drives not plugged in that I can swap in and out of the Kingwin Removable...

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by happy_terd

I feel uncomfortable talking to you right now monts being that I myself am also naked.

According to Richard Wiseman in his book 59 Seconds, researchers have found that placing a mirror near the fridge is a quite effective aid in weight-loss efforts.

[yvanleterrible]

A one terrabyte drive is one tenth the price of my first hard drive. It was a 5 megabyte drive..... circa 1986...

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

I've been thinking on those lines too. The price of storage is decreasing quickly.


How many books could we fit on a one terra drive?

And the need for more storage is increasing rapidly!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

It's Rick Wakeman time!!!

Or Keith Emerson time!

Wonder what they look like at their computer keyboards? Do they stand amongst their computer gear with one hand typing on a keyboard in front while the hand behind them searches the Web?

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

hey, good question ! i was so awestruck by the number itself i completely forgot to ask that.


what *wouldn't* you store on it ??? it's NINE TERRAS man !!!


i know, that's how i feel too.


okay, seriously, if everybody is doing it, i'm going to have to buy a new harddrive or two as well. (rubs hands together gleefully at the thought.)


hm, i'm really tempted. those dvd boxes take up ridiculous amounts of space, especially when you consider the size of their actual contents. it's just absurd. i do like the extras (when there are any, which is not always) but i could rip the extras too. i would have to look into codecs and such though since i've never done that before.


*sigh* if only i had a "less accessible place" to move mine to.

Over The Air recording is legal here (Betamax decision - 1984)...

I heard tell that ripping is just a matter of loading the software on a machine, dropping in a DVD, telling where on the harddrive to put the files and punching 2-3 buttons. But it may be a felony in your jurisdiction, (it is here)

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Or Keith Emerson time!

Wonder what they look like at their computer keyboards? Do they stand amongst their computer gear with one hand typing on a keyboard in front while the hand behind them searches the Web?

I refuse to strap into a spinning piano, 30 feet above the ground....