| Time |
Nickname |
Message |
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00:03
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Smiley |
So yeah, major ass suck |
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00:05
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Smiley |
my job kind of depends on lots of random stuff |
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00:05
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BlueMax |
yup sounds like butts for you |
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00:05
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Smiley |
because the company is going thru budget cuts etc |
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00:06
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Smiley |
and I'm currently on 6 month contract finishing 9th march |
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00:06
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Smiley |
so they letting a laod of people go, including me |
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00:07
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Smiley |
cept _everyone_ thinks this is stupid, as I'm awesome (quite honestly I am... :/ ) |
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00:08
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BlueMax |
totally not tooting your own horn :P |
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00:08
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arkhive |
if you are in NYC area StackExchange is hiring |
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00:08
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Smiley |
BlueMax: lol. |
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00:08
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Smiley |
arkhive: I'm not even in teh right country |
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00:08
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Smiley |
and I really like it where I am :/ |
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00:08
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Smiley |
just depends on so much randm shit |
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00:08
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Smiley |
such as a girl who handed her notice in then withdrew it not returning |
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00:09
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arkhive |
oh. damn. what country you in? |
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00:09
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Smiley |
UK |
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00:09
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Smiley |
normally it wouldn't be an issue, they'd keep me on, I'd become rich etc. |
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00:09
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Smiley |
cept because of the _current_ budget cuts happening to fall just as my contract ends, I get screwed |
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00:09
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Smiley |
hopefully I get something else in another part of the company and return on like 3rd april once they realise they have no actual staff left. |
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00:10
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Smiley |
(there is like 8 people on long term leave, but they seem to ignore that fact.) |
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00:10
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Dud1 |
I know a girl who quit one job to go to another. She was at the new job 3 and a half days. went for lunch and txted them saying lol im not coming back. She is looking to try get her first job back (not going to happen). |
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00:10
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arkhive |
http://stackexchange.com/about/hiring |
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00:11
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Smiley |
Dud1: this girl's father in law won the euromillions |
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00:11
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Smiley |
gave her 1 milliion gbp |
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00:11
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Smiley |
she's spent most of it |
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00:11
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Smiley |
she handed her notice in after going awol for a month |
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00:11
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Smiley |
then she's withdrew it and is now (appently) claiming sick pay. |
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00:11
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arkhive |
london has some jobs (just tryin' to help) but they are sales and financ3e |
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00:12
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Smiley |
people who know her out of work say she isn't going to come back - but I can't just believe that and not do anything about it in the mean time. |
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00:12
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Smiley |
arkhive: heh, can't move. baby on way, etc. |
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00:12
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Smiley |
wouldn't move if i could tbh, too settled here. |
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00:12
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arkhive |
ah |
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00:13
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arkhive |
a lot of people i went to high school with are having kids now. and that's 23 -24 ish years old. seems young. |
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00:13
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arkhive |
i don't know though. lol |
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00:13
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arkhive |
congrats on baby btw |
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00:13
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Smiley |
I'll be 30 on end of Jan. |
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00:14
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Smiley |
right now hopes are iether she decides she isn't coming back, and they let me know |
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00:14
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Smiley |
or theres a job I've asked about for a team being formed currently |
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00:14
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Smiley |
or i get into the next bunch of customer service guys and work on the phones for awhile (Ewwww!) |
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00:15
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arkhive |
what do you do now? |
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00:15
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Smiley |
if that isn't possible then it's working else where :/ |
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00:16
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arkhive |
not where but like type. |
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00:16
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yipdw |
note to self: do not ls on a directory that occupies 58 megabytes |
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00:16
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Smiley |
arkhive: I work for Severn Trent Water monitoring alarms for the network |
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00:17
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arkhive |
ah |
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00:18
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arkhive |
best of luck man. i hope it all works out :) |
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00:28
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Smiley |
me too :< |
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00:28
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Smiley |
just so confused atm :/ |
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07:24
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joepie91 |
The head of the largest bank in the US said Thursday that bitcoin is a "terrible store of value," in part because international governments, bankers, and other officials are unsure whether they can trust the digital currency. |
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07:24
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joepie91 |
head of bank says competitor is awful |
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07:24
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joepie91 |
news at 11 |
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08:22
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BlueMax |
man it's good to see pirate music is still going as a thing |
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10:59
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godane |
so i think something sane will have to be done with my upload of abc news videos |
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10:59
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godane |
i think i will not be one video per a item |
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11:00
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godane |
i say this cause i think cause there are so may segments and crap that i would be best to do one of videos = one item |
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11:01
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godane |
but then again i may change my mind on that one |
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12:07
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joepie91 |
https://vpsboard.com/topic/3332-average-bandwidth-use/#entry49834 |
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12:07
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joepie91 |
this is kind of disappointing actually |
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12:07
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joepie91 |
I expected to have used more traffic |
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12:13
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midas |
the 4TB drive is paying off i see. |
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12:34
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joepie91 |
midas: :) |
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12:34
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midas |
;-) |
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12:34
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joepie91 |
midas: /dev/sda2 1.8T 682G 1.1T 39% / |
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12:34
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midas |
still grabbing ftp.microsoft.com joepie9? |
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12:34
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joepie91 |
yeah |
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12:34
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midas |
nice |
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12:34
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|
midas |
wonder how big it will get |
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12:35
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joepie91 |
pretty big, probably |
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12:35
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joepie91 |
and their FTP is slow as shit |
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12:35
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joepie91 |
lol |
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12:35
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joepie91 |
considering to maybe throw filezilla at it |
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12:36
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midas |
€˜ftp.uni-muenster.de is pritty slow, only 200KB/s |
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12:36
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midas |
gatekeeper.dec.com is _very_ slow |
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12:36
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midas |
about 80KB/s |
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12:36
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midas |
if not 0 |
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12:43
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midas |
rest is pulling in at 140Mbit/s |
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12:51
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joepie91 |
right, using filezilla now |
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12:51
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joepie91 |
8 threads \o/ |
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12:53
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norbert79 |
Filezille rocks although I prefer WinSCP despite it can do SCP too |
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12:53
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norbert79 |
filezilla |
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12:56
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joepie91 |
not a terrible fan of filezilla, but hey, it does threaded transfers |
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12:56
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joepie91 |
:) |
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12:56
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norbert79 |
Good enough for me :) |
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13:00
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godane |
i'm riping maximum pc cds with ddrescue |
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13:00
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godane |
i ran this to fix 6kb error block: ddrescue -d -r3 -b 2048 /dev/sr0 maximum-cd-2001-03.iso logfile |
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13:01
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godane |
it had to be done twice so they would be no errors |
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13:05
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joepie91 |
65G ftp.microsoft.com |
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13:05
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joepie91 |
so far |
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13:05
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joepie91 |
godane: did you eventually get 0kb error size? |
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13:07
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godane |
yes |
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13:08
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joepie91 |
awesome :) |
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13:33
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godane |
funny how 2001-09 and 2001-10 of maximum pc cds only have NEW has volume name |
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13:42
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godane |
so november 2001 maximum pc cd is under 400mb |
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13:42
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godane |
but has stuff like half-life sofware developers' kit version 2.2 |
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13:46
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godane |
i'm starting the uploading |
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14:00
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SketchCow |
When we come in and look, we find a lot of these very poor mastering jobs with cover CDs. |
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14:38
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Dud1 |
I have some misc old cds at home, would I just copy the contents, compress them (with 7zip?) and upload them? |
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14:41
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midas |
SketchCow: how much storage does Archive.org have anyway? |
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14:46
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joepie91 |
Dud1: are they damaged? |
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14:46
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joepie91 |
("damaged" includes "all scratchy because of frequent use") |
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14:47
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Dud1 |
I don't think so. But I wouldn't have all the cds in a set (I might have cd 1 and 3, but not 2) |
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14:47
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joepie91 |
something is better than nothing :) |
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14:47
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joepie91 |
anyway, what OS are you on? |
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14:51
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Dud1 |
Windows 7 |
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14:59
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joepie91 |
Dud1: ah, hm |
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15:00
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joepie91 |
Dud1: well, you can use something like cdburnerxp to make an ISO |
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15:00
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joepie91 |
but if a disk is damaged you're pretty much screwed |
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15:00
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joepie91 |
I am not aware of a ddrescue equivalent for Windows |
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15:00
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joepie91 |
Dud1: and just upload them as ISOs, don't compress them :) |
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15:01
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Dud1 |
I have a mac on a vm and been meaning to install some linux distro on a vm as well. |
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15:05
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joepie91 |
Dud1: that'll only work if the VM has direct access to your disc drive |
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15:06
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joepie91 |
direct hardware access, not just "I can make the drive appear in the VM" |
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15:06
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joepie91 |
(iirc) |
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15:07
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Dud1 |
Right okay, I'll try grab what I can. What's the story in term of copyright etc? Copy them anyway? |
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15:12
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DFJustin |
copy all the things |
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15:18
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midas |
Dud1: archiveteam does not care. |
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15:18
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midas |
archive.org will hide them if needed |
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15:18
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Dud1 |
Okay nice to know thanks :) |
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15:39
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joepie91 |
awesome: https://twitter.com/KevinCapolino/status/426712999525490689 |
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15:39
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joepie91 |
(also, fwiw, if you have damaged CDs/DVDs and do not have the hardware or setup to recover them, you can ship them to me and I can work on them :P) |
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15:48
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midas |
lol, it searches isohunt! |
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15:50
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joepie91 |
searched* |
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15:50
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joepie91 |
lol |
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15:51
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joepie91 |
midas: coming to think of it... |
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15:51
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joepie91 |
what I remember of the code behind this application, tells me that there is absolutely no valid reason for it to work without crashing |
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15:52
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midas |
hah |
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15:52
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midas |
"on error resume next" |
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15:52
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midas |
fixed! |
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15:53
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midas |
noooo |
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15:55
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joepie91 |
midas: no |
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15:55
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joepie91 |
bad |
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16:00
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godane |
so i found abc news now: time tunnel segments |
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16:15
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sep332 |
mac 128k teardown http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Macintosh+128K+Teardown/21422 |
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16:20
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Schbirid |
http://usvsth3m.com/post/74285062011/you-wont-believe-why-the-victoria-line-is-currently NSFServeradmins |
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16:21
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Baljem |
luckily they managed to clean it up quickly enough in time to reopen the line in time for start of morning service today |
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16:21
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|
Baljem |
through the application of some very hastily-purchased sugar |
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16:22
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|
Baljem |
ugh, too many in-times there. whatever. it's POETS day, I've already mentally left the office |
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16:28
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Schbirid |
i currently use 64 kilobit/s internet .( |
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16:56
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godane |
so 2001 maximum pc cds are uploaded now |
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19:15
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sep332 |
hm, gmail is down. |
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19:16
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SketchCow |
Gmail IS down |
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19:16
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SketchCow |
I loved watching every social channel I have flip out |
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19:16
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sep332 |
i'm not lyin' |
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19:18
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sep332 |
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/ is serving 503's |
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19:22
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RedType_ |
gmail is owrking for me but contacts and chat are not |
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19:23
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sep332 |
my "google apps" email has that problem |
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19:24
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RedType_ |
oh yeah i guess i use gapps |
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20:34
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sep332 |
well that got stranger http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/24/gmail-glitch-is-causing-thousands-of-emails-to-be-sent-to-one-mans-hotmail-account/ |
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20:45
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yipdw |
insert snark about running your own mail server here |
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20:48
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sep332 |
and the second link fills in material <at> asvd.sasf.ch automatically |
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22:40
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Coderjoe |
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/t1/968_10152167854484320_1291639399_n.jpg |