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Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:16 pm
by McAvoy
Captain Picard's Hair wrote:Not too bad in my small corner of the NYC region (maybe half a foot), though there were obviously much harder hit areas. I heard the official measurement at Central Park was 11 inches and where my boss lives got over a foot. It wasn't enough to forestall my work day, though I was a bit bored at home and it's half a day anyway. Locales west and north of the city proper got considerably more.
I get to work and look at my laptop (a secondary PC I keep at work) and I notice a clicking sound coming from its hard drive that wasn't there before. That can be an ominous sign of impending drive failure (sometimes called the click of death) though it was running fine despite the clicks and passed a round of diagnostic tests I ran on it. (shrug) I guess for the moment I'll continue to use it but keep a close eye on that drive. It wouldn't be hard to replace if it comes to it anyway.
Better replace that drive soon or at the very least backup whatever you want to keep. I doubt that clicking sound is even remotely good.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2013 5:36 pm
by Captain Picard's Hair
McAvoy wrote:Captain Picard's Hair wrote:Not too bad in my small corner of the NYC region (maybe half a foot), though there were obviously much harder hit areas. I heard the official measurement at Central Park was 11 inches and where my boss lives got over a foot. It wasn't enough to forestall my work day, though I was a bit bored at home and it's half a day anyway. Locales west and north of the city proper got considerably more.
I get to work and look at my laptop (a secondary PC I keep at work) and I notice a clicking sound coming from its hard drive that wasn't there before. That can be an ominous sign of impending drive failure (sometimes called the click of death) though it was running fine despite the clicks and passed a round of diagnostic tests I ran on it. (shrug) I guess for the moment I'll continue to use it but keep a close eye on that drive. It wouldn't be hard to replace if it comes to it anyway.
Better replace that drive soon or at the very least backup whatever you want to keep. I doubt that clicking sound is even remotely good.
Oh, I'm quite familiar with failing hard drives, as I deal with them all the time in my work as a PC technician. Anyway, there's no information on the drive that isn't backed up in at least two other places (and I burned recovery DVDs for this laptop since like most modern PCs it didn't include any in the box). I certainly will be keeping a close eye on it. There are some drives that are noisy but run fine for years, although it's odd that this drive was silent before yesterday and just became clicky out of the blue.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:01 pm
by Jim
What snow? ... Pittsburgh got a dusting. Only had to use a broom on the walk.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 1:29 pm
by Tyyr
If a HD is making noise just replace it. Nothing good has ever come of it. Just count yourself lucky you got some warning before it went.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 9:26 am
by Teaos
My internet here is Germany has been giving me shit since I got here and now I am limited to 30MB a day on my iphone, so text only pages for me for awhile...
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:29 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
That stinks, Teaos. At least you can still access DITL.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:03 pm
by Tyyr
I would love to meet the first asshole who decided to start calling using something or watching something an "experience" and beat his ass to death. I curse his name every time I hear about a "Motion picture experience," or the "superior experience," when someone's talking about a fucking cellphone.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:59 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Tyyr wrote:...and beat his ass to death...
A singular experience.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 8:36 pm
by Mikey
Tyyr wrote:I would love to meet the first asshole who decided to start calling using something or watching something an "experience" and beat his ass to death. I curse his name every time I hear about a "Motion picture experience," or the "superior experience," when someone's talking about a fucking cellphone.
Except that it's correct. Every interaction with a stimulus, no matter how infinitesimal and whether it produces a response or not, is an experience.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 9:14 pm
by Captain Picard's Hair
I am now experiencing the installation of a fresh new hard drive in my laptop as I post from my desktop. Also, the stimulus of today's weather elicited a surprisingly positive response.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:11 am
by Angharrad
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 5:35 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
I am experiencing the sensation of the stimulus of my fingers typing on the keyboard.
Also, I work this week out, then switch to a new schedule at work and position.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:32 pm
by Uzume
Hey everyone, I wish i could post pics of Miss Terra (the new baby) for you all. However i don't want to use photo bucket. Is there another way? And please forgive my ignorance.
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:44 pm
by Teaos
Black Magic
Re: What's the latest in people's lives?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:10 pm
by Sonic Glitch
What he said.
