Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 It was a sad sad day when I filled up the three GB drive on my first computer...I had to delete the folder "Important Financial Documents" in order to install Starcraft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Pseudorandomizer It was a sad sad day when I filled up the three GB drive on my first computer...I had to delete the folder "Important Financial Documents" in order to install Starcraft there are better ways to hide your porn you know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Pseudorandomizer It was a sad sad day when I filled up the three GB drive on my first computer...I had to delete the folder "Important Financial Documents" in order to install Starcraft there are better ways to hide your porn you know It was that obvious? Drats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Pseudorandomizer Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Pseudorandomizer It was a sad sad day when I filled up the three GB drive on my first computer...I had to delete the folder "Important Financial Documents" in order to install Starcraft there are better ways to hide your porn you know It was that obvious? Drats! Really, it was obvious only because you're probably too young to have to deal with "important financial documents". Though, in fairness, if you were older, it would probably still suspicious, because who keeps financial documents on their computer anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Though, in fairness, if you were older, it would probably still suspicious, because who keeps financial documents on their computer anymore? where else would you keep them, a Filofax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Dantius Though, in fairness, if you were older, it would probably still suspicious, because who keeps financial documents on their computer anymore? where else would you keep them, a Filofax? You keep your important financial documents on the Internet, which ironically is also the same place you keep your important financial documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Pseudorandomizer Originally Posted By: Lilith It was a sad sad day when I filled up the three GB drive on my first computer...I had to delete the folder "Important Financial Documents" in order to install Starcraft there are better ways to hide your porn you knowIt was that obvious? Drats!Though, in fairness, if you were older, it would probably still suspicious, because who keeps financial documents on their computer anymore? Oh yeah because the encrypted archive named "porn.7z" is soooo much more subtle than "Important Financial Documents". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 i remember the days when my computer was so filled up i had to delete things to add new games. we probably had nearly half a gig of memory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I still have an old PowerMac that has an amazing 90 mHz processor, along with a bunch of old RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 I always manage to fill up all the space on my hard drives. It's just with increasingly nonessential things. Nowadays I don't have to bother with deleting just about anything. Tons of ancient documents? Sure, hang onto them for nostalgia. Videos? Maybe I'll watch them again someday. Music? Might as well be in lossless format. Sure, I can't tell the difference, but I might want to share it with an audiophile one day—and the terrible acoustics of my performance in a living room should be pristinely recorded! —Alorael, who keeps his important financial documents usually on or near his desktop. They're usually named something not terribly helpful to keep the riff-raff who somehow hacked his relatively secure computer away. But as a consolation prize, he keeps plenty of inspirational material, notably various religious pamphlets, with appropriately financial document names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith where else would you keep them, a Filofax? Filofax? Who remembers Microfiche? No, I am serious this time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Microfilm and microfiche are still preferred archival media. They have their benefits and their downsides, but they're among the most stable and easily stored media. —Alorael, who backs up all his data on microfilm. It ends up looking somewhat like tiny pictures of punchcards. Then he backs up the microfilm digitally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Necris Omega Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 A metabackup? Huh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Originally Posted By: In memory of the forgetful Microfilm and microfiche are still preferred archival media. They have their benefits and their downsides, but they're among the most stable and easily stored media. Yeah, I used them a fair bit last semester. Filofaxes, on the other hand, do not inhabit the same spheres as I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: In memory of the forgetful Microfilm and microfiche are still preferred archival media. They have their benefits and their downsides, but they're among the most stable and easily stored media. Haven't seen them in libraries in a long while though. At least I'm old enough to have actually used them for research once (for a middle-school project, mind). Quote: —Alorael, who backs up all his data on microfilm. It ends up looking somewhat like tiny pictures of punchcards. Then he backs up the microfilm digitally. ... wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Don't worry. I make sure to keep hard copy printouts of all those images of microfilm saved to my hard drive. —Alorael, who usually puts the printouts together into binders or actually binds them as books (if he knows he'll need the information for a long time). He's got whole shelves full of the things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Have you got backup reader machines to read your backups in case the readers need to be replaced? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: Polaran Originally Posted By: In memory of the forgetful Microfilm and microfiche are still preferred archival media. They have their benefits and their downsides, but they're among the most stable and easily stored media. Haven't seen them in libraries in a long while though. At least I'm old enough to have actually used them for research once (for a middle-school project, mind). Having done lots of genealogy I have used microfilm to look things up also. It still has its uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 And to think that a mere 30+ years ago, people used punched cards for storage. By the way, has anyone seen Chad hanging around lately? The last time I saw him, he was pretty tensed out. He needs to learn to let the chips fall where they may. I seem to have misplaced my bit bucket, as well. I need it so I can repair these cards with holes in them. With out them, I'm going to feel all out of sorts. I guess I'd better wrap this up before some tries to deck me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Necris Omega Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 ... I imagine Harehunter blowing a vacuum tube stringing that nightmare of antiquated storage puns together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: Harehunter By the way, has anyone seen Chad hanging around lately? Just ask Al Gore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: Necris Omega ... I imagine Harehunter blowing a vacuum tube stringing that nightmare of antiquated storage puns together. Canines abhor a vacuum. And, no I didn't blow a tube, but I did blow off some steam. Look out Stanley, I'm chugging through. Originally Posted By: Excalibur Originally Posted By: Harehunter By the way, has anyone seen Chad hanging around lately? Just ask Al Gore. Now I have used a few AlGorithms in my career as a programmer. They come in pretty handy for solving some problems. Has anyone seen my slide ruler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Backing up is for chickens. If my disk failed right now I would cease to exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 6, 2011 Share Posted October 6, 2011 Originally Posted By: Goldenqueen Backing up is for chickens. If my disk failed right now I would cease to exist. Paranoia is a healthy attribute for Database Administrators. I have backups of my backups, and backups of those backups at an offsite location. I do the same thing with my personal machine at home, except I don't have an offsite location. I wonder if I shouldn't check out Carbonite? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 While my media collection is only present in two copies (desktop+notebook, with a backup on the desktop's secondary drive), my important documents are synchronized to several cloud services, and in a distributed versioning system (bzr) that is stored in four places (desktop, notebook, university account and web host). Edit: And posting this reminded me that the repository is overdue for a commit and push. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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