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Netizen
Hello I'm New here!
Joined: 07 Dec 2010
Posts: 17
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:33 am |
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Oh man I know what your talking about!
I was upgrading my hard drive a while ago. I was being a bit foolish, messing around with BIOS settings and such, when I accidentally wiped my master boot file. This was also a great time to find out I no longer had my windows installation disk! In the end I had to disconnect my hard drive, hook it to a friends computer, and rebuild the file there.
In retrospect I suppose it wasn't such a big deal. But man, when it happened, it nearly killed me. The closest thing I can describe it to is losing a limb, or a pet or something. At the time I had no idea what was wrong and didn't know if I would ever fix it. |
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Pastor Frank
Baiting Guru
Joined: 31 Jan 2007
Posts: 12237
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 7:55 am |
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leonsumbitches wrote: |
^^^ Mac is just plain old Unix with some glitter on. |
I love a good OS war. |
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extremeb
419Eater is my life
Joined: 29 Sep 2010
Posts: 407
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:06 pm |
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Until a few short years ago, Macs couldnt play 80 % of web content until STEVE & CO figured out how to turn it into a locked down profit center. Macs are lots of flash, lots of advertising, lots of "brand" hiding, and crap warranties.
I for one have used non-Mac products all my career and have rarely had the problems I hear people talking about.
It's like owning a car - if you don't keep up the maintenance - something is going to fail!? |
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bait_my_hook
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Aug 2010
Posts: 858
Location: God's own county, UK
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:11 pm |
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_________________ x lots x few x3
Mass Clown Bait 2011 HERE: clownsX5 cupidsX3 fishers-of-menX1 baptismX1 bunnyX1 circus-skillsX2
Nativity 2011 bait (with lots of goats) is here
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AMU NNA GI = YOU BIG COCK
Am not comfortable with this western union thing any more - Kelvin Smith
...i will get you down you asshole f*cking shit - Tom Bruce the hitlad |
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Ezio
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Nov 2010
Posts: 903
Location: Munching vegetables and hopping around
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:42 pm |
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Bait_my_hook, I was hoping they would call you in as the ref. |
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bravo95
Elite Baiter
Joined: 08 Aug 2010
Posts: 1990
Location: Wouldn't you like to know...
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:49 pm |
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Good lord not another my OS is bigger than yours thread. But I'll throw some gas on the fire.
If you base it on actual users and not just "mine is better" argument how can you Linux and Mac users say yours is better. I'm just asking. I'm sure I am too stupid to understand.
I work in the printing industry and we use both PC and MAC. If you are a graphic designer or photographer I do see the advantages in owning a G5 with 12 core processors but the "little mac" users are just falling for the fancy marketing and ok with overpaying for their computer.
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bait_my_hook
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Aug 2010
Posts: 858
Location: God's own county, UK
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 3:55 pm |
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Ezio wrote: |
Bait_my_hook, I was hoping they would call you in as the ref. |
sorry, think I'm the wrong sex to be referee? being male of course
(sorry to others - that's a topical English sports joke*)
* and before anyone says it, yes the English Football team are a sports joke |
_________________ x lots x few x3
Mass Clown Bait 2011 HERE: clownsX5 cupidsX3 fishers-of-menX1 baptismX1 bunnyX1 circus-skillsX2
Nativity 2011 bait (with lots of goats) is here
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AMU NNA GI = YOU BIG COCK
Am not comfortable with this western union thing any more - Kelvin Smith
...i will get you down you asshole f*cking shit - Tom Bruce the hitlad |
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Roycropper
Baiting Guru
Joined: 14 Nov 2005
Posts: 7992
Location: Luxury Coffin
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:08 pm |
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"little mac" users are just falling for the fancy marketing and ok with overpaying for their computer. |
From my experience, creative types value form over function, and always choose the prettiest computer. |
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You go die like bird
i started shouting HALLELUJAGOBBLE but none of them notice me immediately police arrested me due to the shouting
f*ck u asshole ur damn mother will loose ur fcuking skull brain ur brain is nothing to compare with rat f*ck ur u
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I am not happy due to the question i answered at money office. Let me tell you do not play with me ok.
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Craig007
Baiting Guru
Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 3123
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:10 pm |
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I would never employ the services of a financial adviser who buys a Mac. |
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dwatina
Baiting Guru
Joined: 13 Feb 2010
Posts: 7164
Location: Home of the Orangemen! Friends call me Doc
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:12 pm |
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I started using a Mac because that's what my company used (typesetting house), so I ended up liking them and starting to use one at home as well. And I've been using them since the early '90s.
I figure to each his own so far as to what they use. So long as it does what they need. |
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leonsumbitches
Elite Baiter
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
Posts: 1046
Location: I'm out there, where every man wants to be
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:53 pm |
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The more you deal with computers, the more you come to hate them. It's no surprise that the *nix-Hater's Handbooks were written by utter experts in *nix.
By the time you truly know enough to compare any operating system, you're bound to confuse others by prefacing everything with "yeah, it's a piece of shit, but the others are worse because [technobabble]"
Yes, everything in the Linux-Hater's Handbook is true. But I love it anyway, despite its flaws. It's a comfortable sort of love, the kind you only get with a human when you can fart around each other.
Anything else is just fanaticism and tribalism. |
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iMike
Elite Baiter
Joined: 21 Jan 2005
Posts: 1371
Location: Ministry of Serendipity
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:05 pm |
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I gave up on windows around 10 years ago. 2 young teenage kids convinced me that I needed something where I could control access properly. I switched to Linux, but this was in the days of SuSE 7.0(ish) & the old RedHat. Nice o/s, secure, controllable access, but installation of any other software was a real pain. That's why I eventually switched to Apple. On my 3rd iMac, never had a hardware failure, never had to reinstall the o/s. Software upgrades are easy & cheap (£25 to upgrade to OS_X 10.6 - what's the cost of an upgrade from Win XP to Win 7?). Not a gamer, but I am an amateur photographer & even my Macbook beats the pants off a similar laptop running Win XP for image processing.
I can see that Linux has come a long way since I last used it - if the iMac died, I'd certainly consider a cheap PC running Ubuntu or similar, but I'd never go back to Windows. |
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music man
Baiting Guru
Joined: 22 Sep 2005
Posts: 14807
Location: East Harlemshire , yo!
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 8:59 pm |
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Maybe we could discuss the OP's backup policies instead? |
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Go fuck your dead parents asshole!!!How can a deaf fool make clean money..The money that you have will never be spent on anything reasonable.
So fuck off..dont reply me again until the cops get your stinking ass...
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$4.002million and £214K in fake cheques taken out of circulation. (updated May 2009)
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Badgerbait
Baiting Guru
Joined: 07 Jan 2009
Posts: 4507
Location: Winter spites...
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 10:23 pm |
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Make a beep-beep-beep-beep noise when backing up. |
_________________ I have arrived in Moscow. Has gone to bank and to me have told that there is no such transfer for me!!!!
What does it mean? You played with me? If it so that you very much the cruel man and I am assured of that that the god will see your cruelty.
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I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. -Hamlet, scene iv
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bait_my_hook
Master of Master Baiters
Joined: 03 Aug 2010
Posts: 858
Location: God's own county, UK
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Thu Feb 24, 2011 11:42 pm |
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^^^^^^^^^^^
ROFLMAO |
_________________ x lots x few x3
Mass Clown Bait 2011 HERE: clownsX5 cupidsX3 fishers-of-menX1 baptismX1 bunnyX1 circus-skillsX2
Nativity 2011 bait (with lots of goats) is here
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AMU NNA GI = YOU BIG COCK
Am not comfortable with this western union thing any more - Kelvin Smith
...i will get you down you asshole f*cking shit - Tom Bruce the hitlad |
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leonsumbitches
Elite Baiter
Joined: 15 Oct 2010
Posts: 1046
Location: I'm out there, where every man wants to be
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:31 am |
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Music Man: fortunately, I had everything of importance in DropBox and GitHub.
A ton of it is dot files and such, useless until I've got another *nix to set up. |
_________________ I DON'T. Buy the tomatoes with. The stems. On them. They don't. Degrade. They go. Down the sink. And into the WATER. Then. They get lodged in the throats of little. OTTERS.
GYV::Tanstaafl::Abiga::Game-theory::Church-Sites
x 18 (10 from Tanstaafl baits) x 5 x 2 x 2
SW Bait - Cl3tus Orof3 Accra->8auchi->Accra->Lagos, co-bait with Nowhere Man, Bravo, The Dane & psychicbait
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Mortal
Baiting Guru
Joined: 02 Jul 2009
Posts: 3473
Location: Smarter than your smartphone™
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Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:34 am |
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^^^
One just gotta love DropBox.
It's really awesome. |
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George: Accra -> Togo I really want to do business with you, because i know you are an Angel send to rescue me by God.
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GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU, GOD PUNISH YOU. Mr. Olisa
Every night a phonecall from you, you talk rubbish. Mr. Olisa
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WillEater
419Eater is my life
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
Posts: 432
Location: Hollyweird
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Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:37 am |
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Mac OS X is based upon Free BSD and a few other variants of Unix..
(as you must know)
PC-BSD is one of the best Unix distros available..
with the "Push Button Installer" it's better than OS X and faster to install than Windoze..
Never leave home without it..
http://blog.pcbsd.org/2010/09/pc-bsd-9-0-todo-list-and-some-updates/ |
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mr.scissorkick
Elite Baiter
Joined: 03 Feb 2009
Posts: 1973
Location: 50.299209,-3.650293
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Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:01 am |
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music man wrote: |
Maybe we could discuss the OP's backup policies instead? |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIoG4PlEPtY |
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Accra-Lagos = "you made me and my people to wiat at the air port for nothing sake.and pay for hotel resavetion its not sound." -John Asamoha
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