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[todd51]

Hey everyone how are things? I didn't do too much today but go to one class. I then proceeded to take a nice nap in the afternoon and I went to the bar tonight to have some drinks. Now I'm at home and I have the apartment all to myself since my friends went back home for the weekend.

Hope everyone had a good day!

 

[MacHeadCase]

Whoah! That is such a cool avie, MO! I totally love it!

 

[TenderSurrender]

Hey everyone

Love the new av' mathogre, looks very cool ^_^

Is it being over paranoid that even though I've just backed up the whole of my macs documents (including many music projects working on for bands etc) that I want to back it up onto ANOTHER external drive just incase?

~~ TS ~~

 

[MacHeadCase]

Good morning (afternoon?) TS. The odds of your first backup crapping up are uhm... small. A second copy? Well it is after all, all your school stuff and it's quite important! Why not use another media like for instance, burn a DVD, that way you'd have a copy on an external hd and a copy on DVD?

 

[bobtomay]

TS, nope - especially if you can't afford to lose any of it - but MHC's suggestion of a hard copy on DVD is not bad if you don't have another drive.

My kid makes movies - am getting him set up to do the same right now with a single external drive and also burning a copy to disk in case of catastrophy.

 

[MaDDoG]

;DNice bit of Pi there MO .... not like you to have something mathematical Who would have guessed/calculated that? If I had to sum you up, I would calculate that you are plus average intelligence, minus stupidity, divided amongst your peers, and more than equal to most, but never for a fraction of the time.
Sorry thats about as matematical as I can be.

P.S. Hiya MHC......

 

[mathogre]

Thank you MHC, TS, and MaDDoG! I figured it would add up. ^_^

TS, paranoia? Nah. Equipment fails, and I'd even renew any recordable optical media occasionally as they fail too.

 

[mac57]

OK, straw poll. Who on this forum (a) knows what MO's siggy picture is a picture of? (b) knows what the thing in the picture is used for? and (c) knows how to use it for that purpose?

I am just old enough to have used one of these things (I am being very careful not to say the name yet), actually still have one in my desk drawer, and in a pinch can still use it! Anyone else?

 

[Ryan13]

I guess 14 years old is too young for me!

 

[Stretch]

Its a slide rule for math calculations, but I have no idea how to use it.

 

[mathogre]

Thank you mac57! ^_^

Stretch got it right, obviously so to some.

As with you mac57, I have a couple and can still use them, at least a little. I spent more than a little time just playing with mine as a kid, looking at and understanding the relationships between the different scales. It was a view of math mostly unavailable to people today.

There was also one other thing I learned with the slide rule, and that was to ask, "Does my answer make sense?" I work with amounts of data today that couldn't possibly be hand calculated. Dump it into the computer and get the output. The computer did it, so it must be right, right? "Does my answer make sense?" always remains a part of my final check on results.

 

[fearlessfreap24]

i will have a pineapple juice and parrot bay please.

 

[TheCustomer99]

Well, I've finished my first week of classes at Northern Illinois University, so I'm back home working now. My economics courses are interesting, especially my Monetary Policy class because my professor has very colorful lectures, but at least he gives Monetary Policy an entertaining spin. I also had to retake my college algebra class because I got a D in it two years ago at community college, but since then I've taken business calculus and gotten a B and business statistics and gotten an A, so college algebra is a breeze now. If attendance wasn't required, I'd definitely only show up on test days.
Hope everyone else had a good week, and I hope to be at the IRC Sunday night.

EDIT: After I posted this, I went to reboot our Internet Center computer here at RadioShack and I got the wonderful Blue Screen of Death. May the Internet Center rest in peace (2002-2007).

 

[iKitten]

Mathogre and Mac57, I recognized the slide rule but didn't remember what it was called. My dad had a math minor and was a corporate pilot ~ he had one of those in his desk.

 

[todd51]

Hope the first week of classes went well for you TC99. I got a D in college algebra the first semester of my college career, and well..its mainly because attendance wasn't required. I partied a little too much my first semester and realized I needed to get my priorites straight. Now I've raised my GPA drastically and spend a lot of time with school and work.

I'm having a pretty good weekend despite the fact I thought I was going to be bored since all the roomates went back home. Last night I went out and had a few beers. Today I got to sleep in, watched a bit of Terminator 2 on Starz, now I'm doing my daily dose of Internet surfing. Oh and I got all my laundry done except for washing my jeans, I ran out of quarters.

 

[Stretch]

I'm leaving guys, got most of my stuff moved, bring the rest over now. Maybe I'll find an open wireless network, if not I'll see you when I get my internet up.

 

[MaDDoG]

Slide Rule - sort of an anologue computing device which used to be used in engineering mainly I think. I remember mucking around with one years ago.

 

[TenderSurrender]

Hey

Sorry for the late reply, got carried away working on my mates car, sounds nice now though ^_^

Im VERY paranoid about the data im backing up, coursework as well as paid work for bands is on the backup HDD, but i feel, its still not safe. I would go on to optical (DVD/CDRW) but I have a habit of loosing them/scratching them. At least with an external HDD, its fairly hard to loose it

Perhaps a second external HDD only attached when backing up? or do you genuinly think going onto DVD is the way forward as a secondary backup?

btw, night night everyone, long day ahead of me tommorow

~~ TS ~~

 

[iRye]

I finally brought my mac to theapple store!

 

[mac57]

I guess there is no point in starting a "Show Us Your Sliderule" thread!