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40F and still outside, with mostly clear skies. Beautiful orange and pinks with glowing cirrus and chemtrails š
Let’s see, trouble in the Middle East, trouble at home. Bankers and money men still milking it for every last drop. Western culture, one of the most successful EVER, continues to commit suicide. A mania for sex abuse. And a couple more kids shooting up schools.
I guess this is the new normal.
Damn.
nick
If you’d like to remember RBT by watching him in action doing something he loved, take a look at his YouTube “Home Scientist” videos.
Here’s the first video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS0uLXPWKlA
And here’s all of them:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHomeScientist/videos
Oh, I got a couple of you out of moderation. If you wondered why your comments didn’t show, Cowboy- too many links, Sn33- no history of approved comments, and some links.
You’re good now.
Thanks for the reminder Sn33,
nick
and the google group/ forum for help
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/the-home-scientist
I took the liberty of posting the news on it
Thanks Joe, more digital breadcrumbs….
n
@Nick,
Just because the things you mentioned are now typical, it doesn’t mean we have to accept them as normal…
I guess this is the new normal.
Humanoid cannibalism on “Star Trek Discovery”. Bon Appetit!
It still seems strange to believe that Bob and Jerry are both gone. I”ve been reading Bob’s online words for almost two decades, and I read Jerry’s stuff even longer. I still remember walking to the drug store to buy Byte magazine to read Jerry’s columns. Since I’m now 53, that means it’s been over three decades and close to four that I read Jerry’s stuff. I still miss them both.
California is leading the entire process of stupidity. There are now more people in California on welfare than are not. That is not sustainable. At some point California will simply be bankrupt. My two brothers are making plans to leave as soon as they can find another location in Texas and Idaho.
However, my older brother retired from the CA state highway department and thus draws a retirement from the state. CA will continue to tax his retirement even if he lives in another state. The state’s position is that the money is being earned in the state and thus entitled to taxation. He will be required to file a tax return in the state to which he moves and also CA state income tax.
Oregon is also being afflicted by the rot that is destroying CA. People moving from the shirt(-r)holeā¢ that is California. These people now want to turn Oregon into the same shirt(-r)holeā¢ that they left behind.
Having grown up in Oregon, Rogue River, 15 miles up East Evans Creek Road, I have zero desire to return to Oregon. It was an excellent place to live 40 years ago but not anymore. A sleaze pot of liberals.
My fear, and expectation is that we’ll look back at these as ‘the good old days.’
I think we’ll see a rise in these sorts of ‘manias’ and people’s behaviour will become more and more extreme.
I look at Venezuela, Argentina, and our own crumbling, formerly industrial cities and see an increasing breakdown in civilization.
Violence, perversity, sudden death have been with us always, you only need to read the story of Oedipus to know that. I think we are headed into ‘the crazy years.’
Or I could just be in a bad mood this am….
n
bad mood Nick; I live in one and worked time ago on the other a lot of time. Respectfully, nonsense.
They’re part and parcel of living in a Western nation.
@Nick: Dunno, I think the pendulum has begun its swing back. We’ve just seen the extreme end of its swing. Progressives got us into the mess, but people are less and less afraid to speak up. Take the comic book writer who recently lost his job for refusing to kiss an transgender woman (one might have thought one got to choose who one kissed? Apparently not). Anyway, he lost his job, but already has another one. He’s likely to make more money this way, than in his old job. Wouldn’t have happened 5 years ago.
The long road back is just beginning, but there’s going to be a lot of frenetic screaming as the progs start to realize they are losing ground. I look forward to some serious schadenfreude, as the progs start getting back some of what they’ve been dishing out for so long.
The question is: the road to where? This isn’t really a pendulum; we’re not going to wind up back in some idyllic version of the 1950s. We’re headed somewhere completely different. Hang on and enjoy the ride!
Ok, one last gut check.
I’ve decided on a course of work for my wife’s all-in-one pc upgrade.
It does have a PCIe slot I can use, so I ordered a 2 port SATA card and power cable splitter.
I have a 64gig SSD from my last upgrade, which made a huge usability difference on my last machine.
My intent is to migrate her existing windows7 install to the MUCH smaller SSD, and retain her existing HD for data, etc.
Because of the size differences, I can’t just clone the disk using any of the most recommended or free tools, and I don’t want to nuke everything outside the windows folder to make it fit.
Paragon Software has a migration tool that (supposedly) does exactly what I need, migrate the OS to a smaller drive, while being able to exclude all the data. Link:
https://www.paragon-software.com/home/migrate-OS-to-SSD/features.html
I’ve been very happy with their partition manager in the past, so I generally trust Paragon.
Anyone have any experience doing this same thing, using the Paragon Migrate OS, or another tool that will clone, but only part of the disk?
The goal is to give her a usability speed boost, as cheaply as possible, with as little disruption to her. I’m going to max out the ram too, it is currently 4 Gig and 2 gig sticks, and the OS reports 6 gig, even though the motherboard spec says dual channel and matched sticks only…. I’ll either swap the 2gig for another 4, or swap both for a matched set. Either way, less than $50. (is supposedly 200pin, so harder to get.)
Or is this bound to fail horribly and get me consigned to the couch???
nick
Yes the California dems are running around claiming Moonbeam has given us a surplus while totally ignoring future debts, mostly CALPERS retirement and bonds.
Good article by VDH today
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455738/high-speed-rail-california-boondoggles
@brad, I think the pendulum is swinging too… not sure what can be done for places that have already imported all the trouble they can’t deal with, like EU with young angry musslims, and the US with our OTM (other than mexican) illegal immigrants.
I do see small signs for change, but I expect paroxysms of really extreme stuff as the progs realize the change, and before the change really gets going among common folk.
It seems certain that extreme behaviour on all fronts is increasing- sex, politics, criminal violence, etc. There are large currents moving in society, geopolitics, money, culture. Right now, the swirls are below the surface. The constant drumbeat for war… and the actual preparation for it, can make it a self-fulfilling prophesy.
nick
I’m very glad I lived in Cali when I did, and very glad I LEFT. I think Texas will be a good place to ride out the storm, even though RBT often pointed out our disadvantages. Outside of the idea of an American Redoubt, or the Cumberland Plateau, we are the best positioned resource wise, economically, and culturally.
n
Having grown up in Oregon, Rogue River, 15 miles up East Evans Creek Road, I have zero desire to return to Oregon. It was an excellent place to live 40 years ago but not anymore. A sleaze pot of liberals.
We escaped Vancouver, WA almost four years ago. I’m still not sure what we were thinking moving there from Tampa.
Watching “I Tonya” the other night, my wife said, “That doesn’t look like Portland. The houses are too nice. The mall ice rink definitely isn’t the Lloyd Center.” Then, the answer came in the credits: “Filmed in Georgia”.
Well, Duh!
the Cumberland Plateau
I live on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau. Actually about 20 miles from the time (eastern/central) as the crow flies. That is basically the start of the Cumberland Plateau in my opinion. Seems like a nice place.
Or is this bound to fail horribly and get me consigned to the couch?
I would skip the 64Gig SSD and go with something much larger, at least 256Gig. You will fill up that small space rather quickly.
I would also just do a complete reinstall of the OS. Doing so will enable AHCI if it is possible. That will provide you with a speed boost with the SSD. If you are running W10 there will be no need for an install key as the digital signature of your system is registered. Even if it does not activate simply calling MS will get you an activation key.
Doing a reinstall will make certain the correct drivers are installed and gets rid of the rot in the system.
It is easy to segregate the data files as that is how I have my desktop configures. OS on a 256Gig SSD, data files on three 1TB spinning platters.
But I am now of the opinion that upgrading a system is no longer worth the effort. PCs are now a commodity and just buying off the shelf is good enough. Just get a system with an SSD (or a 7200 RPM spinning platter), and be done with it. Costly but the Microsoft Surface is a really nice machine that can support two external monitors and three external disk drives when using the Surface Dock.
I used to enjoy assembling a system and watching the BIOS boot for the first time. Not anymore.
“I would also just do a complete reinstall of the OS. ”
Besides the 10 plus hours that takes (with all the updates and reboots), that would still leave all the applications to be reinstalled. I’ve gone thru the machine and pulled out all the cruft I could, but there are still a HUGE number of things installed. It is the family/kitchen machine and has all the updaters for all the kid toys, small apps for this and that, simply tons of stuff. I would spend a week getting all that back, and would still lose all the histories, auto log ins, updates to all the apps, saved games, etc.
Re-establishing her ‘environment’ is the biggest argument I have against replacing the machine or more destructive upgrades.
nick
Just copying the 43k in pix, and untold hours of the videos took many hours over 2 days.
ADDED- you are right that a bigger SSD would be advisable, and I might have to, but I’ve GOT the 64 sitting here….
@Nick,
I would say it’s a tossup between your plan and saving the expense to replace the machine in two years. Given that you already have some of the parts, it may be worth it. You’re still going to have to do something when Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 in 2020…
Just did some math, and I’m gonna need a bigger SSD. windows plus the programfiles* folders is 58gig.
Still should have the entire update for less than $150. If that gets us even a year more of use, it’ll be worth it. And if I can avoid doing any of the software work, I can use that time much more profitably finishing any number of projects that arguably have a higher priority.
n
added- not much of a worry for me, but a year should give intel et al a chance to fix their vulnerabilities too.
In general, I think Ray is right. I still tinker with my machines, and I’ll probably build my next one. But I’m somewhat unusual in that I care about video performance. Yes, I am a 53 year old gamer. In my experience, computers are sold like cars. The base model is cheap and the money is made in the options. I’ve seen a lot of times where if you are buying a machine, it makes more sense to buy one with minimal RAM and go buy the RAM you need from Crucial.
The costco dell I bought to run my security cams cost LESS than the component parts at Fry’s and included the OS. The processor, mb, and case eat up the whole purchase price. I guess the drives, kb, ram, and graphics card are all free? That’s why I finally decided to just buy the on sale model instead of build one. Even reusing a 1TB hd and optical burner, I couldn’t have beat the price BEFORE the OS.
The savings of time just on installing the os are significant. (still gotta sit thru the upgrades, then strip out all the win10 specific nonsense and install useful software. At least ninite automates some of that. )
n
I suspect that your system has integrated graphics, which are actually a lot better than they used to be. Integrated graphics are now more than good enough for anything besides serious gaming or video editing.
Or is this bound to fail horribly and get me consigned to the couch???
You are on the couch. It doesn’t matter if everything works right, one icon in a different place, a folder in a different location, you have to explain “anything”, and you are on the couch. Been through this with MrsAtoz.
My wife has a $1400 gaming laptop that appears to be more than good enough for World of Warcraft. It is clearly more than good enough for everything she has done so far. The only thing she hasn’t tried is raiding, which is the most taxing thing on any gaming machine.
This. Is. CNN.
āPeak self-parodyā reached: CNN article defends cuckolding
LOL!
No no no. What you meant to say was “You’re gonna need a bigger boot (drive).”
No no no. What you meant to say was āYouāre gonna need a bigger boat.ā
@Nick
When I got my latest HP laptop, I ordered the Laplink PC Mover disk with it. Installed it on the old and new computers, connected via home wireless, and used the program to move the OS and applications from the old and new computer. Worked very well, minimal intervention or tweaking after the move.
You might want to investigate the use of that program to move OS and/or applications from the old computer to the new one.
Re WordPress problems: have not seen any issues from here. Have accessed the site several times each day without problems. Screenshot or error message might help figure out the problem. But no issues with my access.
Besides the 10 plus hours that takes (with all the updates and reboots), that would still leave all the applications to be reinstalled
There is that. It does take awhile but with an SSD the time is greatly reduced. I did a complete rebuild when I installed my SSD. Everything was done in just under 5 hours. Multiple applications, Office, Photoshop, video editing, picture management, utilities (7-zip, etc.). A SSD really does make the job easier. Ultimately you have to make the decision and what works for me would be a major issue for you.
The only thing she hasnāt tried is raiding, which is the most taxing thing on any gaming machine
In my experience video editing and production is the most taxing item on a system I have ever done.
Did a 5 minute video on my Surface Laptop (SSD all the way) while on the road. Rendering the video took over 30 minutes, processors maxed out, battery drain significant, cooling system at maximum. Rendered the same video on my desktop and it took slightly less than four minutes. Cores were doubled, memory was doubled, work space was on two separate spinning platters.
Integrated graphics are now more than good enough for anything besides serious gaming or video editing
I would advocate that integrated video is plenty good enough for video editing. Gaming no. The limiting factor in video editing is the CPU and bandwidth to the disk drives. Video editing really, and seriously, consumes an enormous amount of data.
Iām gonna need a bigger SSD.
Crucial Memory has a 2TB SSD for $499.00. You could just put everything on a single SSD and be done with everything.
@rick, I’ll look at laplink, whodathunkit that they were still around…
The issues I had this am were 500 internal server error, and one other I hadn’t seen before, something ‘illegal call xxxx’ maybe. been fine since this am though.
@dave, just plain dave! It actually has an additional discrete graphics card, in addition to the built in. I don’t need the card, but it was essentially free.
n
Get the 256 SSD for programs & OS, then migrate the OS to that.
Then use the 64 GB SSD for swap. If (when) it fails, you can move the swap just about anywhere. But it will be FAST swap until that happens.
I have a similar setup – a 6-year-old PC I built myself. I’ve replaced parts over the years, but it’s still the last PC I built. Current OS is on a 120 GB intel SSD. Swap is on a spinning platter. Plenty fast. Now that I think about it, I have a 60 GB SSD sitting around. I’m going to put it in for swap space. Woo-hoo!
@Dave: You’re not alone, as a geezer-gamer. Still, I buy my machines nowadays, usually just watching for an interestong sale. Currently very happy with an Acer Predator G3-710. Good graphics, big SSD and bigger HD.
@Nick: I feel for you, and have a couple of ideas. Some years ago, my office issued me a Windows laptop, and I wanted it dual boot. The disk had plenty of space, but Windows had helpfully placed unmovable files all the way at the end of the partition. I found a utility that would move those files, so I could just change the size of the partition.
What I’m thinking is that you could do the same thing on the current disk, and then clone the partition. If that sound interesting, I can see if I can find the name of the utilities I used. Usually I write these things down…but where?
The other thing: Get any data off her PC and onto a NAS. That doesn’t help with the zillions of little programs, but it does help with photos, videos, and such. And they’re a whole lot safer.
I used LapLink and was satisfied with it.
I just popped over to the old message board – just before RBT switched over to WordPress and shut the message board down.
http://forums.ttgnet.com/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST&f=19&t=1180&st=#entry41088
Who would have thought that WordPress would stifle discussion and keep us from going off on tangents?
The costco dell I bought to run my security cams cost LESS than the component parts at Fryās and included the OS. The processor, mb, and case eat up the whole purchase price. I guess the drives, kb, ram, and graphics card are all free?
Low end CPUs are in demand right now for bitcoin mining. All the main processor has to do is shuffle bytes from the network to the graphics cards and back so even a Celeron would be adequate.
I’ve seen some crazy motherboard designs lately, all driven by Bitcoin fever. 8+ full size PCI slots.
@Nick
re site errors: a ‘500’ is usually an overload indication. Had those on Jerry’s site just after his passing. There is an ugly error message that shows up for 50x errors. Indicates a traffic overload.
Might have been caused by the backup program I installed. Changed that to a weekly backup, and set it to happen at 0200.
Also enabled an analytics program so that will show (from this point onward) if there is excessive traffic that might be causing the problem.
Also, a caching plugin was installed. That might be a contributing factor; there is so much action in comments that rebuilding the cache might be causing some overload. Don’t really need the cache on this site; I don’t think there is that much traffic. So I disabled it for now.
Will watch things….
@JimL : I don’t think I have ever seen comments here go off on tangents. FLASHLIGHTS!
AR is better than AK, 45cal better than 9mm LUSER!!!11!!!!!
added– you can’t eat gold, cops are heroes/cops are pigs, bitcoin is nothing but a bubble, blondes have more fun
n
(old style’s better than bud, much much better…..)
Have we every had one stay on topic?
n
“The other thing: Get any data off her PC and onto a NAS.”
funny that you should say that, the only time I’ve ever lost data is when my NAS died. I still haven’t decided if I’m going to pay for a recovery, try something DIY, or just walk away.
The drives are fine, but the enclosure and managing HW are dead. Well, I’m assuming the drives are fine, but the errors in the HW before it failed might have hosed the drives too.
I’ve mentioned it here before. I replaced it with a WD my cloud, but haven’t messed with it since. I probably have all the old HDs that are backed up to it somewhere…
n
the only time Iāve ever lost data is when my NAS died
Only use a NAS for network storage, a place to hold files that anyone on the network can access. A backup still needs to be made to something. The cloud, a USB disk drive (or a couple). Something that can be accessed with any standard file mangler. NAS makes it difficult unless the network is working, all the NAS hardware (another layer of trouble), and the drives are working. A USB drive is simple, effective, requires no special drivers, and can be easily taken offsite.
“Have we every had one stay on topic?”
I was an Super Administrator on the old sites and never kicked anyone out for straying.
OK, more on Laplink with box in hand. User can select movement of entire partition, or programs, settings and files. IIRC, one can specify xls, mp3, jpg, etc.
“Have we every had one stay on topic?”
I was an Super Administrator on the old sites and never kicked anyone out for straying.
OK, more on Laplink with box in hand. User can select movement of entire partition, or programs, settings and files. IIRC, one can specify xls, mp3, jpg, etc.
Once is enough Cowboy.
He ought to say it one more time – to be sure we really got it.
I like the idea of NAS, but I hate the implementation.
What I wound up doing was making the aforementioned homebrew a de-facto server for the house. The kids, the wife, guests, whomever wind up getting movies streamed, files stored, etc. on my one box. I want it to be seamless, and a PC that I use all the time is more likely to be working reliably than a box that I can do nothing with. I just don’t TRUST them.
And my stuff gets backed up. Monthly for the movies (I can always re-rip them) and daily for the important data that I can’t afford. Carbonite takes care of that, as well as OneDrive for many of the files. Belt & suspenders.
A discussion that stays on topic is boring.
Nick mentioned Fry’s and how a whole system at Costco was a better deal. The local Fry’s clearly is slowly going downhill. It was originally an Incredible Universe that sat vacant for some time. It seems to be adversely affected by the shift to the online world. Interestingly, all three Costco’s in the Indianapolis area are closer to me than Fry’s.
Strangely, the Detroit (Madison Heights) MicroCenter appeared to be thriving the one time I was there. It’s not as spread out as the local Fry’s, and the merchandise was more densely packed. I will probably swing by the closest MicroCenter the next time I go to the Dayton Hamvention.
I find I horde less and less data as time goes on. Of course, I also am not a business owner who needs to retain stuff either. The important stuff like family photos are all stored on third party services. Everything else I usually just delete anymore. I used to keep it all forever and now I find myself detesting the digital clutter. Emails are replied to or deleted almost immediately. I don’t need 15 years of sent emails stored somewhere or the Word document from some grad school assignment. Purge purge purge! On the whole, for me, I find the annoyance of not having it to reference in the off chance I need it to be preferable to the annoyance of having it around and worrying about its security, redundancy, and organization. YMMV.
Also, it’s 11 months until Christmas. š
I have an old home built server that I built shortly after I started reading Bob’s blog. So it’s probably sixteen to eighteen years old. Of course everything but the case has been replaced in that time. Several components more than once. It started after I upgraded my PC so many times that I had everything but a case and power supply left over. So I bought an Antec case and power supply. Eventually I added mirrored hard drives and upgraded to a larger drive. I’ve been thinking it’s time to upgrade again. Which may mean switch to a NAS instead of upgrading in the traditional sense. Although given Nick’s experience, and the comments of others, I want to give the idea some consideration first.
Belt & suspenders then another belt & suspenders.
Lots of data in lots of places (both devices and locations).
On the old site, the member information may be of some use, too bad that information is not here too.
In some ways I liked the old Ikonboard.
I also miss the old Hardware Guys site. A lot of history there, lost to the ethers.
Just to add to that I’ve had issues with RAID devices in the past too. I think I’ve told the stories so won’t repeat. My advice is to only use mirror RAID as that way you basically have two drives with the same copy. Use a standard SATA interface and either drive can be removed and accessed independently. Striping just gets you troubles like Nick has had when the controlling hardware fails.
Currently use a Buffalo NAS (for backup and sharing) but also have computers with one or two drives each with copies of my important stuff. USB drives offsite.
The stupid is strong in this one…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42815483
Moore’s Law dead.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/24/death_notice_for_moores_law/
I don’t know is the universe is infinite but stupid probably is.
Nick mentioned Fryās and how a whole system at Costco was a better deal. The local Fryās clearly is slowly going downhill. It was originally an Incredible Universe that sat vacant for some time.
Anytime I go into Fry’s after a specific component, I walk out empty handed, head home and hit Newegg. The converted Incredible Universe stores seem worse than the purpose-built locations.
I’m old enough to remember the old Sunnyvale Fry’s (#1?) which was the origin of the legend. Located across from the old Weird Stuff location, the store was dark, dingy one stop shopping for the geek lifestyle — parts, snacks, drinks, and pr0n. All OReilly books were available around the corner at Computer Literacy.
One more
The Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day: Obama With Farrakhan In 2005
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/photo-of-obama-louis-farrakhan-to-be-released
The Fry’s in San Diego was an Incredible universe, and they never re-themed it or repainted their trucks. Both fry’s here are purpose built and themed.
Microcenter re-invented themselves sometime in the last year or two, and they are no longer the quick stop inflated price store for businesses. They have a huge selection, lots of Maker stuff, good rates for instock if you check the website first, and their pricing is very competitive. I’m headed there tomorrow for a bigger ssd….
n
Or is this bound to fail horribly and get me consigned to the couch???
Yup. You are putting lipstick on a pig.
The Fryās in San Diego was an Incredible universe, and they never re-themed it or repainted their trucks. Both fryās here are purpose built and themed.
Wilsonville (Portland), OR Fry’s is a converted store. Renton (Seattle), WA is purpose built, on land leased from Boeing near the 737 plant. Guess which store I actually bought things from.
Tanner Electronics in Dallas is like an old school Fry’s, with both regular electronics hobbyist merchandise and whatever surplus deals the owners score. The bonus is that they are across the street from Dallas Maker Space.
My fear, and expectation is that weāll look back at these as āthe good old days.ā
I think weāll see a rise in these sorts of āmaniasā and peopleās behaviour will become more and more extreme.
I look at Venezuela, Argentina, and our own crumbling, formerly industrial cities and see an increasing breakdown in civilization.
Violence, perversity, sudden death have been with us always, you only need to read the story of Oedipus to know that. I think we are headed into āthe crazy years.ā
I think that we are already in the crazy years. The FSA (free stuff army) really bothers me, they expect everything for free, they don’t care who pays for stuff as long as they do not. And the FSA membership is growing rapidly.
Trump may be our last gasp against the FSA. If Congress gives the dreamers the right to vote then we are gone. The repuglicans in Texas will get voted out by the dreamers and we will have people that will make Texas look just like California.
Plus, the USA has a financial apocalypse just over the horizon. In some 10 to 20 years, the tbills will become overwhelming and somebody will force our hand. At that point, the dollar will fall precipitously.
I think Texas will be a good place to ride out the storm, even though RBT often pointed out our disadvantages. Outside of the idea of an American Redoubt, or the Cumberland Plateau, we are the best positioned resource wise, economically, and culturally.
Just wait until the 3.6 million dreamers get to vote. I am guessing that 800,000 of them live in Texas. It will be bad because they will vote for Uncle Santa Claus every time.
Just did some math, and Iām gonna need a bigger SSD. windows plus the programfiles* folders is 58gig.
I would not put anything less than a 500 GB in a pc now. And the boot drive MUST be an SSD. Just wait until mama puts a few pictures and a video or two on there and the free space goes to zero.
https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0A/dp/B073SBZ8YH/
“All about ransomware”
https://www.malwarebytes.com/ransomware/
Everything that you did not want to know about ransomware. I am thinking that everyone will be bitten by ransomware at some point in their lives now.
Iāve mentioned it here before. I replaced it with a WD my cloud, but havenāt messed with it since. I probably have all the old HDs that are backed up to it somewhereā¦
Please, please, please ! Backup all of your drives and storage to just one device. Big dumb drives are just incredibly cheap now. I copy all offsite material (our website, 1.4 GB) weekly onto our main file server. Then I use robocopy daily and weekly to copy all of the office drives to three internal drives and seven rotating external drives.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/
Remember the prepper motto: Two is one, one is none.
http://thesurvivalmom.com/understanding-two-is-one-one-none-concept/
And yes, I am paranoid. The wife has verified this. But I have been bitten so many times by the least little thing.
Just wait until the 3.6 million dreamers get to vote. I am guessing that 800,000 of them live in Texas. It will be bad because they will vote for Uncle Santa Claus every time.
Trump’s margin in TX was 800,000. Only 400,001 imported Democrats are required.
Please, please, please ! Backup all of your drives and storage to just one device.
Bare drives are even cheaper than finished external. Fry’s, Amazon, Newegg, etc. will sell you a kit to connect a bare SATA drive to USB, complete with a power supply and silicon sleeve for the drive to provide protection for the electronics while the power is on.
I think I paid $25 for my USB-SATA kit.
Bare drives are even cheaper than finished external. Fryās, Amazon, Newegg, etc. will sell you a kit to connect a bare SATA drive to USB, complete with a power supply and silicon sleeve for the drive to provide insulation while the power is on.
I think I paid $25 for my USB-SATA kit.
I am now ripping the WD 8 TB bare drives out of external usb drives since the bare 8 TB drive costs more ($185 vs $247):
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN/dp/B01LQQHLGC/
and
https://www.amazon.com/Red-8TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B01BYLY4DM/
I don’t know if WD is going to release an 8 TB blue bare drive but they really need to. The 8 TB drives that I pulled out of the USB case are HGST white drives.
Also, itās 11 months until Christmas.
Ah, good, I might have just enough time to get the cards addressed. Not. š
I second the recommendation of Microcenter. They are much better than the local Fry’s locations. They occasionally have really good sales.
Low end CPUs are in demand right now for bitcoin mining.
Bitcoin mining is very sensitive to the price of electricity, especially in the US. However, Etherium mining is causing high end video cards to sell at a premium. A high end Nvidia card that sells for $400 ($299 list) generates about $5 worth of Etherium per day. Some people are running rigs with 9 video card. In China, there are dedicated server spaces where you can install your mining rig for a fee – they have the air conditioning you might not have at home.
On average, maybe. Some of us are careful to a
faultreasonable degree, while some will be bitten more than once.One of my open distribution EMS newsletters has this to say:
“We are currently in the middle of a bad seasonal inļ¬uenza peak which by itself
caused a shortage of IV bags, ļ¬u shots, and both prescription and over-the-counter
ļ¬u medications nationwide.”
and offers a link to the CDC āSupply Chain Disaster Preparedness Manualā:
https://www.cdc.gov/phpr/readiness/healthcare/SupplyChainDisasterPreparednessManual.htm
A bad flu and we’re short of IV bags. (seems that most of the saline comes from PR, and that’s jacked up still.) Unfortunately we can’t stack Tamiflu or the other flu treatment as they are prescription only, but we can stack the ‘snivel meds’ to treat the symptoms.
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added– from the intro, emphasis added–
“Why This Manual is Needed
In late 2013, the Association for Healthcare Resources and Materials Management (AHRMM) surveyed its membership to assess their level of readiness for a disaster. While the survey responses did indicate a high level of disaster planning, survey respondents identified topics they would like to see addressed further in a manual or other format, such as coordinating with local or state governments during a disaster and determining the roles the federal government will play in a disaster, among other things. These topics were not covered thoroughly in AHRMM’s Disaster Preparedness Manual for Healthcare Materials Management Professionals (2007). As a result, these topics helped to inform the content of this manual.”
NOT COVERED! pretty basic stuff…..
Just saw this, and it hits on some of the same points I was trying to make earlier:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/why-were-underestimating-american-collapse
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Bitcoin mining is very sensitive to the price of electricity, especially in the US.
Low TDP CPUs are very much in demand for that reason. I rebuilt my home server for less than $160, CPU, motherboard, and RAM, but the AMD APU I used has vanished from Newegg, Amazon, etc.
Seconded: For home use, Raid-1 makes the most sense. For an NAS, I am very happy with the Qnap we bought about 7 years ago. They are very consumer oriented, meaning that they can easily be set up as media servers, etc.. Even my old model still seems to be actively supported.
I second, third, and fourth the comment about backups. An NAS isn’t a backup, but it puts all your stuff in one place to make backups easy.
@Nick..
You might want to have a look at Mini Tool Partition Wizard (free)..
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
It might be of use..
I would agree that a bigger SSD would be better. Especially if other family members are using the pc. Everything seems to get dumped onto the main drive..
Also at slightly over 60 I have to admit to being a gamer as well and I build all my own rigs. All of this started with one of RBT’s early computer books.. (Which I still have here somewhere).
It is still hard to accept that he is no longer with us.. š
About dumping everything onto the main drive – you don’t have to.
On my system, built when 7 first came out, I moved the “users” directory over to my “D:” drive using the tools Windows provides. So when Jen dumps pictures or the kids download things, it all goes to the spinning drive. The only things going onto the SSD are program files and those things Windows just doesn’t want to move.
I built the system when SSD life was a big concern – only so many writes, and you could get there in under 3 years if you really beat on your pc, which I do. Current SSD is about 3 years old (when I ran out of space). It’s only 120 GBytes. Drivecopy (I forget which one) did the transfer for me.
” I moved the āusersā directory over to my āD:ā drive using the tools Windows provides”
This is my plan. On my dad’s little tiny machine, you have to as you only get 64gig of storage, but can add a 64gig microSD card for user data….
So far, it’s turning into a Jerry article, about doing silly things so you don’t have to. Lot’s of gotchas and caveats. I do have a plan (now that the first one failed.)
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Re: Installing/re-installing…
Why not make a backup of your fresh PC when you unbox it, then restore the backup as required, with your data on another drive. Tha way you don’t have to re-install from DVD, call Bangalore, etc.