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Lblitzer posted:Haha what? That's a crazy deal. All I got was a 40gb SSD for the same exact service for a friend. Those things are tanks. I normally just get a handle of 17 dollar whiskey....
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HKR posted:I normally get a pat on the back and a "thanks, couldn't have done it without you"... Yeah, I got a hug for recovering data from a failing hard drive which tied up my laptop for 4 days running ddrescue. Bitch the liquor store does not accept hugs as a form of payment, especially not second hand hugs.
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Comradephate posted:Yeah, I got a hug for recovering data from a failing hard drive which tied up my laptop for 4 days running ddrescue. I typically call Best Buy, get a quote, and divide by 4. When restoring an entire HDD, they charge by the GB so the price gets absurd pretty quickly VVV Modern Pragmatist fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Jan 11, 2012 |
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Jan 11, 2012 20:10
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Modern Pragmatist posted:I typically call Best Buy, get a quote, and divide by 4. I take a Best Buy quote, say "Those guys don't know what they're doing" and charge the same.
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Bob Morales posted:I take a Best Buy quote, say "Those guys don't know what they're doing" and charge the same. Haha, always a good choice. Was for a (formerly) close friend. She got lovely with me about how long it was taking, and then even shittier when I told her if she took it to Best Buy it would potentially cost several hundred, or even into the thousands. Lesson learned though - when a friend says he/she is having trouble recovering data from a hard drive, I will plug it in to my caddy, if it doesn't read immediately and let me copy the files, then "Sorry, there's nothing that can be done." are the magic words.
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I have a...peripheral problem.  (not pictured: 2 IBM model Ms, fully restored)
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Granite Octopus posted:I have a...peripheral problem. please tell me you've heard of synergy and have a good reason not to use it?
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Synergy is great! But these days I only use one computer. Currently my desk has 2 keyboards on it; USB apple keyboard for the iMac, and a bluetooth keyboard for the iPhone. It was only when I uncovered these excess keyboards that I decided to take a photo. For archival purposes only.
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Granite Octopus posted:Synergy is great! But these days I only use one computer. Currently my desk has 2 keyboards on it; USB apple keyboard for the iMac, and a bluetooth keyboard for the iPhone. I'd consider getting Google Voice, and trying a setup where you use your computer while at home, and phone while away from home.
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Dominoes posted:What do you use the keyboard for on the phone? No google voice here unfortunately  I just use it for typing iMessages to people, and sometimes for taking notes. Typing using the on-screen keyboard can get annoying.
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Granite Octopus posted:I have a...peripheral problem. How much do you want for one of those compact wired keyboards? Seriously. edit: poo poo, you're in Australia.
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Granite Octopus posted:No google voice here unfortunately Dominoes fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Living a little bit like poo poo, but I don't mind. It's set up so that I can't really see any of the cables when I'm sitting down, and denial is easier than cable management
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Thanks to backgrounds switching every 5 minutes, Jack pops up once in a while to distract me from work.
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Bob Morales posted:Thanks to backgrounds switching every 5 minutes, Jack pops up once in a while to distract me from work. That sounds somewhat creepy. Though that shouldn't talk much as I had this as my background for months. 
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zero0ne posted:That sounds somewhat creepy. Though that shouldn't talk much as I had this as my background for months. Would clicking on the interweb icons pull up each webpage?
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Granite Octopus posted:I have a...peripheral problem. What desk is that and where did you get it? I really need a stable desk.
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Ephphatha posted:What desk is that and where did you get it? I really need a stable desk.
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Dominoes posted:Plugging the Geek Desk; large, straightforward desk with a motor that lets you sit or stand. While absolutely awesome, we have 7 of them here at work, and we're getting more... They're $750 minimum. Ephphatha: The desk of choice if you want stable and affordable is the IKEA Galant. It'll run you about $200 for the largest size. My Galant is home to a 36" LED TV, 2x 22" widescreen LCDs, keyboard, mousepad, clamped microphone boom, and other random poo poo. I've never felt like it was unstable with all that on top of it. Everything has been moved around since I moved out of that house, but here's the last picture of my setup: 
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I just got back to my dorm, and I don't have any pictures of my desktop back home, but I can show my cramped desk at school. No dorm picture is complete without an empty beer bottle. Baxate fucked around with this message at 06:39 on Jan 15, 2012 |
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Wanted to remove the lamp from my desk but still have light behind my monitor, soooo... Done with the flat, round Dioder lights from Ikea and some sticky tack. Next up is mounting the Mac Mini underneath the desk and doing a better job hiding the lights' cabling.
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Behold! The land that cable management....forgot!
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Behold! The land that cable management....forgot! That's a lot of recordable media.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Behold! The land that cable management....forgot! Nice catte
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^^^^ I prefer to think of Fidel Catstro as a footwarmer that shits. Triikan posted:That's a lot of recordable media. Doesn't include the 2 100+ binders in the closet, a handful of spindles in the closet, or these:  (right hand case is entirely recordable) Yeah, this is what happens when you don't throw anything away/collect bootlegs for 14 years.
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Reason posted:Not really a "desk"top, more a table top I guess. baxate posted:I just got back to my dorm, and I don't have any pictures of my desktop back home, but I can show my cramped desk at school. UC(SC?) student spotted. What's wrong with your laptop keyboard?
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It's nice to be able to sit back more than 4 inches from your screen!
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This is where I spend some most of my time. The "always on/ever vigilant" shelf + COD  Geek Shrine  Detail 1  detail 2 
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prom candy posted:Love the Unicorns poster in back, do you have that album on vinyl? It's one of my alltime faves.
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I have it on vinyl and CD  Do you have it as well? The record is pink. I got the poster when I went to go see them open for Hot Hot Heat in Toronto in late 2003. They didn't show up and some guy working there claimed that they trashed a strip club in Montreal the night before. I never did get a chance to see them live
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prom candy posted:I have it on vinyl and CD Only on CD. I was going to see them on their last US tour but missed out and found out they had broke up. I don't even care to see Islands just because the Unicorns were such a staple for me growing up. I would have been so pissed to not see them, but Hot Hot Heat aren't bad!
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We left midway through the Hot Hot Heat set, I wasn't a big fan of theirs at the time. French Kicks opened at the same concert which was cool in theory but they were super drunk and played like poo poo. Then I got a super bad migraine on the way home and it was pretty much the worst concert I've ever been to, but at least I have that sweet poster! Ended up seeing Islands in Toronto a few years later. Great show but totally not the same, I never got into them the way I did with The Unicorns.
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Bob Morales posted:Thanks to backgrounds switching every 5 minutes, Jack pops up once in a while to distract me from work. What desklamp is that above your left monitor?
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Laserface posted:This is where I spend some most of my time. Holy crap, a Skyline 2000GT-R Bit Char-G?
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So because my Ikea tabletop is a piece of poo poo (protip: don't screw in the Galant cable organizer into a Vika particleboard top, regardless of if the Ikea salesmen say it'll be fine), when I press down on my normally silent Mac keyboard, it wobbles a bit and is apparently loud as poo poo, which pisses off anyone in an adjacent room. While I've been considering just saying gently caress it, embracing the loudness, and getting a mechanical keyboard, in the meantime I've been doing this to quiet it: Problem is, the notebook of course slides around like crazy. Are there any rubber keyboard mats that can go under it to both hold it in place and silence it?
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