While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[theDright]

What is the flavor of Linux, qoou? I've heard it's an acquired taste.

 

[nutranurse]

When you can get to the desktop, you should move all your NES stuff onto something portable. This solution is obvious, but shouldn't be too hard...as long as your stuff is all in one place/organized by folders.

It's all organized and there, it's just a race to get it into something before it decides to freeze up. I'll try to put everything on my thumb-drive, but my last attempt to move things resulted in the computer, yet again, freezing.

edit: Ok. One folder down, one more to go. I got all the critical stuff at least. So it looks like I'll just be extending the hiatus for a bit.

edit edit: I may have been over-exaggerating about how forlorn my situation is. I just hate computers and the problems I tend to have with them. I'm still going to have to get a new computer, but at least I can save most of my documents from the past 4 years.

 

[theDright]

If you can save all your information, yet still don't have a computer, there are these strange places that still exist, called public libraries which might enable you to avoid extending the hiatus altogether. Up to you though, I don't know if you'll be close to one, yet alone close to a good one.

 

[nutranurse]

If you can save all your information, yet still don't have a computer, there are these strange places that still exist, called public libraries which might enable you to avoid extending the hiatus altogether. Up to you though, I don't know if you'll be close to one, yet alone close to a good one.

I'm far from any library/without a car (that's an entirely different story altogether). Moreover, I do not know of many libraries that have CS5 installed on their computers (correct me if I'm wrong, but most libraries lack software like this, right?). And as much as I love NESing I don't love it enough to spend whole afternoons in the library.

 

[Kraznaya]

If you can save all your information, yet still don't have a computer, there are these strange places that still exist, called public libraries which might enable you to avoid extending the hiatus altogether. Up to you though, I don't know if you'll be close to one, yet alone close to a good one.

what

how is he going to get his files out of his computer using public libraries

 

[theDright]

@AmnestyBosh
If he can get his files off his computer onto something portable, but can't use his computer to do updates effectively, he could go somewhere that has free, public access to computers.

@nutranurse
I guess they wouldn't have CS5 on them at the public library. The only place I could think of is a university specialty computer lab, but that seems even more improbable. Are you in the city, or in the suburbs? If in the suburbs, I guess we should get ready for a longer hiatus then.

 

[spryllino]

It's a bit much to expect any mod to go to the lengths of going to a public library to do their updates.

 

[Luckymoose]

I'm far from any library/without a car (that's an entirely different story altogether). Moreover, I do not know of many libraries that have CS5 installed on their computers (correct me if I'm wrong, but most libraries lack software like this, right?). And as much as I love NESing I don't love it enough to spend whole afternoons in the library.

Then you, sir, have a poor definition of love.

 

[Terrance888]

I spent whole afternoons in the Library doing research before for NESes.

 

[Eltain]

 

[SKILORD]

Link to video.

Who doesn't like hanging out in Libraries?

 

[Birdjaguar]

Or he can take the hard drive out of his dead computer and slip it into an external HD case and then load the docs on to his new computer from there.

 

[Tycho]

Calling all people that have Civ IV to possibly join a nice project for CIV S&T forum!

We are going to play a rather lengthy multiplayer session with as many people as possible, have everyone capture screenshots, and in the end, create a rather overarching series of stories and updates from each player. We are going to be starting this summer it looks like, so I am hoping that many people can join us for some fun, as we will be running the updates somewhat like a NES, and will have a discussion group for ideas and structures of stories of tie ins and whatnot.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Interested... I'll be back at home and able to play by the 19th of May or so. And I have many memories of NESing from university library computers when my computer got fried near the end of first year.

 

[Tecknojock]

Or he can take the hard drive out of his dead computer and slip it into an external HD case and then load the docs on to his new computer from there.

Beat me too it BJ. As long as the drives are working, and from the sound of it they are, this should work, as would just plugging them into a new computer directly. If he has a really old computer, then he might not be able to find an ide dock locally, but newegg should have some.
Running a live disk with memtest86 could help diagnose some issues. If memtest after a couple passes is clear and Linux boots up fine, then the problem is likely not core components, though it doesn't entirely rule out hardware issues, but it does make it more likely that it is a software problem. In that case, reinstalling windows should fix it.


Also, you ought to archive the most important stuff to DVDs or even better Bluray if you have a burner. Even if your hard drive is still working now, they do eventually fail.

Over Xmas, my raid five array desynced and somehow the failed drive was marked as key and would not let me rebuild my array and I very nearly lost everything. I've definitely gotten better about keeping backups since then.

 

[Luckymoose]

I've never had a hard drive failure, but I have since stopped using hard drives.

 

[Gem Hound]

I've never had a hard drive failure, but I have since stopped using hard drives.

I've had 2 now simply because they couldn't handle what I was running. Everytime it was slower until I cooked the hard drive. Nothing important in those ones.

 

[Tecknojock]

Ssds still can fail. All it takes is a blown capacitor or another component on the i/o chip or a firmware bug to take it out, and these are the types of failures that account for more than half of hard drive failure. Only about 40% are mechanical according to googles datacenter testing. Its still better to keep important stuff archived to DVDs.

Edit: I've had plenty, but I tend to keep old hard drives from broken comps for data storage and I use them till they burn out, though never for anything important.

 

[Dachs]

I don't mind him voicing his opinion; I just disagree with it. I think handing 99/100 to more than one NES is excessive? Near-perfection shouldn't be that easy to hand out. Hell, I wouldn't hand out a single A to the NES forum right now...

Yeah, I'd apply a much stricter rubric, and in my head, no NES currently ranks better than somewhere in the high eighties... of course, I judge all NESes differently based on what I desire from a NES, and what I get.

I gotta agree. N3S gets, like, a B (it ought to be like an A-, but updating speed...), and I imagine SysNES 2 would end up somewhere around there as well once it gets off the ground, but everything else? Feh.

Have there ever really been any As, though, if we go by that? I'd tentatively say AFSNES, but I am a little biased. Maybe LiNES II and the original SysNES, but I don't know enough about either of those to really say, since neither was really "my thing".

 

[Thlayli]

Really depends on how you rate some of the NES2 series. Great dependability and quality, but a bit lower on historical plausibility than we expect from modern althists.

One wonders when we shall finally see NES2 VII...