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Graknorke

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67260 on: November 04, 2013, 02:42:35 pm »
Quote from: Bouchart on November 04, 2013, 02:39:35 pm
How do you have HDD damage?  Normal wear and tear?

I ask because I have a very old computer and I'm always wondering what the warning signs of parts failing might be,
He mentioned earlier about powering the computer down by holding the power button rather than through the proper means.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67261 on: November 04, 2013, 02:46:42 pm »
Accidentally
This was a low-level scan, too. It reported 14 bad blocks, altough there's a few more that don't seem to be in a great state either.
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Knowing Belgium, everyone will vote for themselves out of mistrust for anyone else, and some kind of weird direct democracy coalition will need to be formed from 11 million or so individuals.

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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67262 on: November 04, 2013, 02:49:44 pm »
Signs of hard drive failure are:
-SMART showing up telling that your hard drive is failing
-Failing to boot
-Extremely slow to boot
-Corrupted files
-Long load times
-Strange noises
-....
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67263 on: November 04, 2013, 02:51:23 pm »
What does it mean if your computer bursts into flame?
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67264 on: November 04, 2013, 03:01:01 pm »
Quote from: Xantalos on November 04, 2013, 02:51:23 pm
What does it mean if your computer bursts into flame?
Everything's normal, no need for concern.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67265 on: November 04, 2013, 03:04:16 pm »
3 options,

-Battery or power supply failure resulting in a spectacular short.
-Dust explosion in the fans
-Using liquid hydrogen instead of liquid Helium for overclocking was a mistake

On a side note, you might also have encountered some obscure UNIX error.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67266 on: November 04, 2013, 03:11:29 pm »
HOLY SHIT I JUST BOOTED INTO WINDOWS!

The fonts folder is corrupted, but it works, somehow.

THANK YOU, GREAT COMPUTER GODS!

E: Also I'm getting other errors. Either way, progress!
« Last Edit: November 04, 2013, 03:15:20 pm by miauw62 »
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67267 on: November 04, 2013, 03:18:21 pm »
I think it might be time for a back-up. Or an exodus, which ever you prefer. DOubt it's going to last long.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67268 on: November 04, 2013, 04:07:28 pm »
Quote from: miauw62 on November 04, 2013, 03:11:29 pm
HOLY SHIT I JUST BOOTED INTO WINDOWS!

The fonts folder is corrupted, but it works, somehow.

THANK YOU, GREAT COMPUTER GODS!

E: Also I'm getting other errors. Either way, progress!
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67269 on: November 04, 2013, 04:10:46 pm »
Quote from: 10ebbor10 on November 04, 2013, 03:18:21 pm
I think it might be time for a back-up. Or an exodus, which ever you prefer. DOubt it's going to last long.
Seconded. It sounds like it could stop working completely at any moment. While you could still probably take everything off it without any problem even if stopped working, there isn't any need to risk having a problem requiring you to buy recovery software.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67270 on: November 04, 2013, 05:57:11 pm »
Quote from: 10ebbor10 on November 04, 2013, 03:04:16 pm
-Using liquid hydrogen instead of liquid Helium for overclocking was a mistake
Ah yes, a classic HSE.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67271 on: November 04, 2013, 06:23:15 pm »
I am trying to install Fedora on a dual boot on my computer for a change of pace from my usual Linux flavor, but it's slower and my touchpad scrolling doesn't work. Blagh. I never realized how much I require touchpad scrolling until now.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67272 on: November 04, 2013, 10:19:20 pm »
I make a preposterous amount of money for someone with my responsibilities and all I can think is that it's a ridiculous waste of time because I spend the day working in order to go home and do nothing I really care about, and instead spend a bunch of time taking care of objects I don't really want at all but am sort of sentimentally attached to.

Yes, money's great, and it lets you have choices (for example, I will be making the choice to find out why I keep getting pneumonia, and for Christmas I am going to buy myself a good pair of boots).  However, I seem to be giving up the big things I want in life in favor of a bunch of little perks, and I feel like I'm slowly dying internally.  Hell. . . most of the things I thought I wanted, stuff that was going to make me feel somehow good about the awful bargain I'm making, were instead things I found I wanted to watch other people doing.  I don't actually want hairclips or nice nightshirts or rose perfume.  I want to imagine a cute girl enjoying those things.  I don't even really want a nicely embroidered waistcoat.  Also, I'm lonely, which is stupid.

Time to go take out the trash, do the dishes, and vacuum the carpets.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67273 on: November 05, 2013, 12:30:15 am »
Quote from: Vector on November 04, 2013, 10:19:20 pm
I make a preposterous amount of money for someone with my responsibilities and all I can think is that it's a ridiculous waste of time because I spend the day working in order to go home and do nothing I really care about, and instead spend a bunch of time taking care of objects I don't really want at all but am sort of sentimentally attached to.

Yes, money's great, and it lets you have choices (for example, I will be making the choice to find out why I keep getting pneumonia, and for Christmas I am going to buy myself a good pair of boots).  However, I seem to be giving up the big things I want in life in favor of a bunch of little perks, and I feel like I'm slowly dying internally.
I think this is the second time I've asked somebody on the boards this question today, or possibly just in the last couple of days, but are you secretly me?

EDIT: Although the boots and pneumonia are off, I do have a nice thing to buy myself come Christmas and I do have a recurring medical problem that I'm trying to get taken care of. Mostly I'm asking about the rest of the quote, though.
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Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« Reply #67274 on: November 05, 2013, 03:29:15 am »
occurs to me that vector needs mirrors

loadse mirrorse

to make it more obvious, it is so she can enjoy watching herself enjoying the nice things

hell i'd be up for that too but once you go 3d it gets creepy and shit
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