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My father is a genious

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    Vasily Tserekh
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    The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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      The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      :omg: There are times I'm glad my father uses a Mac. Did you see the "Dumb Things People Do?" Loung thread the other day?

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        The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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        I thought my Dad was displaying his final act of dumb stubbornness when he wouldn't get on the internet and even gave back the 486 I gave to him. He and my mom are still not connected. I run a PC (Antivirus anymore) shop and couldn't be happier about that. It is not popular but I contend a good number of the world's population should do something other than operate computers. It was all were forced onto them by the internet. I tell them when their drive is going clunk cluck cluck that computer is a terrible place to put your memories (Remember shoe boxes?) And to back them up a lot cause you just can't trust them. I'll stop here before I launch into a rant about WD scorpio blue drives. Suffice to say I have a pile of dead ones. /ron

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          I thought my Dad was displaying his final act of dumb stubbornness when he wouldn't get on the internet and even gave back the 486 I gave to him. He and my mom are still not connected. I run a PC (Antivirus anymore) shop and couldn't be happier about that. It is not popular but I contend a good number of the world's population should do something other than operate computers. It was all were forced onto them by the internet. I tell them when their drive is going clunk cluck cluck that computer is a terrible place to put your memories (Remember shoe boxes?) And to back them up a lot cause you just can't trust them. I'll stop here before I launch into a rant about WD scorpio blue drives. Suffice to say I have a pile of dead ones. /ron

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Ron Anders wrote:

          WD scorpio blue drives

          Insist on Black. Black is cool. :cool:

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            Ron Anders wrote:

            WD scorpio blue drives

            Insist on Black. Black is cool. :cool:

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            I'll second the WD Black...the only time I had a problem was because an Intel chip fried on my Prescott box and it fried the electronics on the WD Black HD...WD gave me a new one, no questions asked. I use Green drives on my HTPC...haven't had any problems with those either.

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              I'll second the WD Black...the only time I had a problem was because an Intel chip fried on my Prescott box and it fried the electronics on the WD Black HD...WD gave me a new one, no questions asked. I use Green drives on my HTPC...haven't had any problems with those either.

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              PIEBALDconsult
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              DaveX86 wrote:

              Green drives

              I considered Green, but I leave my system running and I used to run Folding@Home, so I figured it would never get any rest, ergo I opted for Black.

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                DaveX86 wrote:

                Green drives

                I considered Green, but I leave my system running and I used to run Folding@Home, so I figured it would never get any rest, ergo I opted for Black.

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                Yeah, the box I leave running 24/7 has all black drives in it too...I do allow them to spin down which saves a lot of wear but it's a pain in the butt waiting for them to spin up all the time.

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                • V Vasily Tserekh

                  The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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                  Amir Mohammad Nasrollahi
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                  SO Funny and Wonderful :D also one of my friends put usb in laptop and turn it!!! (like switch key of car) :-\

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                    The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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                    Vasily Tserekh wrote:

                    Amazing the way old people think...

                    I'll never forget trying to trying to teach my father-in-law how to 'browse' the internet. Scrolling was an issue... "why do I click the down arrow to make the page go up?" In general, the laptop was just too difficult for him...so we got him an iPad which he did much better on.

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                      Yeah, the box I leave running 24/7 has all black drives in it too...I do allow them to spin down which saves a lot of wear but it's a pain in the butt waiting for them to spin up all the time.

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                      Saves lot of heat too - my NAS does that and it's fan hardly ever moves. And heat is a killer for electronics as well as bearings - lowers the MTBF from my experience.

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                        Saves lot of heat too - my NAS does that and it's fan hardly ever moves. And heat is a killer for electronics as well as bearings - lowers the MTBF from my experience.

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                        Very true...looking forward to trying those supposed 10TB SSD drives that Intel has been bragging about :)

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                          Very true...looking forward to trying those supposed 10TB SSD drives that Intel has been bragging about :)

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                          Now I'd like four of those in a NAS, set up for RAID5! But I'd hate the mortgage I'd probably need to get one... :omg:

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                            Now I'd like four of those in a NAS, set up for RAID5! But I'd hate the mortgage I'd probably need to get one... :omg:

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                            That's for sure! ...prices on SSD's are definitely coming down some, though...was thinking of trying one for my C: drive by imaging the existing stuff off my old one...don't know if that would work or not though. I'm not quite ready to replace this box yet, but it would be nice to give it a boost.

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                              That's for sure! ...prices on SSD's are definitely coming down some, though...was thinking of trying one for my C: drive by imaging the existing stuff off my old one...don't know if that would work or not though. I'm not quite ready to replace this box yet, but it would be nice to give it a boost.

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                              OriginalGriff
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                              I know what you mean - my C is 1TB, so I'd need that size to mirror it - currently it's just over £300 for 1TB (Dabs[^]) and that's $550 Canadian. Probably more than I want to spend upgrading this system - I'll probably want a faster processor, more ram, and Win10 as well when I update next.

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                                I know what you mean - my C is 1TB, so I'd need that size to mirror it - currently it's just over £300 for 1TB (Dabs[^]) and that's $550 Canadian. Probably more than I want to spend upgrading this system - I'll probably want a faster processor, more ram, and Win10 as well when I update next.

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                                It's on sale at Newegg for $474 CDN[^]! :) I think I'll wait till it gets a bit cheaper...

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                                  :omg: There are times I'm glad my father uses a Mac. Did you see the "Dumb Things People Do?" Loung thread the other day?

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                                  In his defense, this old guy wants to know if your father can spell "genius"? :laugh:

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                                    Vasily Tserekh wrote:

                                    Amazing the way old people think...

                                    I'll never forget trying to trying to teach my father-in-law how to 'browse' the internet. Scrolling was an issue... "why do I click the down arrow to make the page go up?" In general, the laptop was just too difficult for him...so we got him an iPad which he did much better on.

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                                    Brisingr Aerowing
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                                    He has a point about the scrolling.

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                                      The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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                                      Nguyen H H Dang
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                                      My friend cannot play Battlefield cause his PC only has 2gigs of Ram, he asked me where to download more Ram ...

                                      In code we trust !

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                                        In his defense, this old guy wants to know if your father can spell "genius"? :laugh:

                                        cat fud heer

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                                        Vasily Tserekh
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                                        sorry its hard to be trilingual

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