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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Pride on October 05, 2005, 06:58:21 AM

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Post by: Pride on October 05, 2005, 06:58:21 AM: Did everyone miss me??? :bigsmile:
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Post by: Vulgate on October 05, 2005, 08:46:28 AM: where did you go?
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Post by: Pride on October 05, 2005, 09:46:51 AM: Raliegh North Carolina...

Havent you noticed that when I am gone the boards are dead???
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Post by: Fabio on October 05, 2005, 09:56:12 AM: :blamepride:
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Post by: cuzzNkev on October 05, 2005, 01:19:28 PM: Was wondering what was smelling..
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Post by: Pride on October 05, 2005, 01:51:25 PM: (http://www.westcoastmccsale.org/Mirror.jpg)
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Post by: The Shoctor on October 05, 2005, 02:52:02 PM: HOLY Crap!@!!!
THIS PICTURE PROVES YOU ARE A VAMPIRE!!!!!!!1111one

:couch:
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Post by: Valkerie on October 06, 2005, 09:33:42 AM: haha Yea I think that is cool as crap. Is that photoshopped or just the way you were standing in front of the mirror?
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Post by: Pride on October 06, 2005, 10:04:55 AM: I didnt take the photo.... notice the shadow on the ground... the guy is there.
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Post by: VonDouche on October 06, 2005, 12:09:52 PM: my computer tanked.

windows doesnt run right after a reinstall, cd drives (2) wont read my mobo drivers, Fudge i hate computers.
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Post by: The Shoctor on October 06, 2005, 12:29:12 PM: I had issues with the NEW nvidia drivers. I hate computers too.
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Post by: Valkerie on October 07, 2005, 07:41:16 AM: Yea well at the last LAN my computer(or the computer i was borrowing) decided to do the uncontrollable automatic rebooting. I was mad because afterwords i had to spend the majority of the night reinstalling games and ect.
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Post by: Pride on October 07, 2005, 07:46:28 AM: before coming to a lanparty... make a ghost image!
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Post by: cuzzNkev on October 07, 2005, 08:13:42 AM: I did this on my last new install/rebuild. I havent needed it yet, but it is so nice knowing that it is there.
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Post by: louber1115 on October 09, 2005, 01:20:39 AM: Do you mean a separate backup drive kinda like RAID 0?

I'm interested, as it seems computers do like to tank at big lan parties.
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Post by: TekieB on October 09, 2005, 08:09:24 AM: Quote from: "louber1115"
Do you mean a separate backup drive kinda like RAID 0?

I'm interested, as it seems computers do like to tank at big lan parties.

Its a cd/dvd set that you make with a program called norton ghost. It makes a bootable "image" of your hard drive in its current state. So to reinstall you just stick these cd's in, and all your stuff/settings are still there. Quicker than a manual windows install
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Post by: The Shoctor on October 09, 2005, 11:37:41 AM: Radio 0 is not a backup! Raid 1 and Raid 5 have redundancy, but it will not protect you from bad installs, drivers, or you deleted things. They will only give you redundancy if a drive fails.

Please take a look at this.
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/markeditorial.html?sess=no&prodkey=quick_explanation_of_raid
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Post by: l4mby on October 09, 2005, 01:25:42 PM: pride was gone ? wow, didn't even notice. =P
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Post by: Ryom on October 09, 2005, 05:23:57 PM: If you are willing to spend $100 or so you can get a very decent backup. Grab one of the USB or Firewire connected external drives that have retrospect backup bundled with them. Schedule a daily incremental backup around the times you aren't using the PC (sleeping or at work and such)

Any raid OTHER than Raid0 is simply fault tolerance, not backup. If a drive fails, you aren't Fudgeed and can continue operating w/o shutdown until you replace the dead drive... unless you have hot swappable drives :)

Raid doesn't protect you from accidentally deleted files and viruses... daily backups do. Raid reduces the impact of hardware failure only, backups reduce the impact of user failure and hardware failure.
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Post by: sully! on October 09, 2005, 09:32:02 PM: Quote from: "Ryom"
backups reduce the impact of user failure and hardware failure.

I like that. I'll have to remember that one :2thumbsup: