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Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 11 Sep 2006
22:56 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | so i was playing WoW in the moring b4 my engineering class, like i usually do.... and i came back to email my prof something... and my comp was acting up... it was strange. but then it got worse and worse. nothing would start, it refused to connect to the internet, task manager wouldnt come up... it was horrible. i rebooten over and over again, i then rebooted and left it on idle while i was at chem, and i thought it got better. it didnt. i restarted in safe-mode, and that woked perfectly, but i had no resorses except to try and clean up the computer's files with adaware and ccleaner. nothing workd, and it got worse again. so... i had to do the worse thing i have ever done in my life... i restarted the comp using my recovery DVDs... and that means... i loose ALOT of important stuff. i still have some of my data, like WoW and my calc games and my music, but i have NOTHING else. none of my settings, none of my things that made my comp... mine. it was bad... but i had to do it. I guess i just wanted to say: make sure you have a back-up of your computer, even if you expect you ill never use it. its worth it, but you'll have doing it.
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
01:39 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Cool, now you can get Opera instead of Firefox.
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TI Freak
Probe
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
05:27 GMT
Total Posts:
Edit | Heh, what are you griping about? My Harddrive died last night... <.< And it is only 4 months old or so... |
ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
06:40 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | Meh, I keep everything valuable on the computer next to me, so if this one dies, I wouldn't care all that much (also, I just wiped the drive a couple months ago, so there's not much stuff on here at all). |
Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
07:30 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | my computer is only 2 months old. And i just found out that it only saved my old applications (like firefox) but i lost ALL of my data files in MyDocuments (my Art, my music, all of my photos). i have to redo my Thunderbird. ugh... only 2 months and i get this. i think im going to get and external drive for my birthday... i gotta get ta class...
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CoffmanRunner
Ultralisk
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
14:43 GMT
Total Posts: 235 | well i have seriously looked into puting something like 3 250gb harddrives into in old pc and sticking a RAID-5 controller. If you don't know what that is i won't go into depth pretty much i writes data a special way so that if 1 hard drive fails then you can throw it away and stick a new one in it's place and you won't lose ANY data of course you "lose" 1 drive's space but i think it's worth it. ex: if i buy 3 250gb drives and use RAID-5 then i only have 500gb of usable space but yea...
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ryantmer
Wraith
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
16:56 GMT
Total Posts: 692 | Although I wouldn't say the computer next to me is anything close to invulnerable, it isn't connected to the internet, so a large risk is taken away due to that. It is running Windows, though... <.< |
Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
19:34 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | lol... i think it wasnt windows that messed up my comp, it was Nortan Internet Security.
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
19:52 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Raid5 is also quite slow...
I use raid1 myself. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
20:02 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Yeah, raid5 is pretty slow. Though, if you can afford some raptors it's not too bad. I do prefer 0+1 instead though but it will cost more in HDD's but extra speed is worth it. Currently I run two separate raid1 and raid0. raid one is two 160gb sata seagates and raid0 is a pair of 74gb raptors (that was more cost effective for me). Very nice. Luckily I haven't had any hdd related bs for the 3 and a half year since I've built the machine.
As with Norton, it sucks, very bad... I feel for you. Norton GoBack is by far one of the worst ones, while it works it's fine but I've seen it seriously screw up machines. And NIS is a ridiculous resource hog not to mention a crappy scanner. I'd suggest you get a copy of Kasoersky instead. You'll love it. Myself, I used AVG since it's free but have never had any virus or spyware problems. :)
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 12 Sep 2006
20:06 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Same here, I use AVG. It seems to work, and safe users never get any major infections anyway. :)
I use two 250GB on raid1 (picture storage), and was considering upgrading it to a 0+1, but decided against it. Perhaps in the future I'll pop in a couple of 300's or so for 0. |
Liebe ist Krieg
Wraith
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
18:29 GMT
Total Posts: 542 | My college requires me to use Macfee antiirus. its free and it doesnt screw up my comp.... but does it portect it...
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allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
20:17 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Yeah, some Universities here do that... the UW provides us with MacAfee Enterprise, but it's our choice on if we want to use it or not. WSU (across the state in Pullman), requires students to install their client, which won't let you online until you download and run their AV, and your computer has all of the windows updates.
Talk about draconian... |
threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 13 Sep 2006
20:50 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | My school doesn't require you to do anything. I even opened myself a UDP and TCP port so that my torrents can get top speed.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 14 Sep 2006
05:09 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | Aw, shoot. My only working hard drive on my Windows computer just died! That means everything I ever did in VB.Net is lost. I'm liking Java much better than VB.Net, though. It's one of the easiest languages I've learned.
Actually, about that, I can't find a good compiler for Mac OS X. Anyone know of a good one?
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 14 Sep 2006
09:21 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | XCode. It's built-in to the operating system.
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haveacalc
Guardian
Posted: 14 Sep 2006
14:35 GMT
Total Posts: 1111 | That just solved my life.
Before your post made me realize otherwise, I thought XCode was just a collection of packages containing various developer tools (don't ask me why).
Crap! This is amazing! *messes around with Java for the rest of forever*
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threefingeredguy
Ghost
Posted: 14 Sep 2006
23:09 GMT
Total Posts: 1189 | Yeah, Macs are good.
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