Re: Got my Season 7 Game of Thrones DVDs

On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 12:50:51 -0500, benj <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 3/4/2018 10:15 AM, Sir Gregory Hall,  Esq. wrote:
>> 
>> Got my Season Seven Game of Thrones DVDs Tuesday
>> and have ripped them into .iso files and saved them to
>> both laptop's hard drives and to a 64 gig Secure Digital
>> card.
>> 
>> Now, I have all seven seasons on two laptops and SD so
>> it's unlikely I'll ever lose the use of them.
>> 
>> I don't trust DVDs anymore as I have some older ones
>> that have degraded around the edges and no longer work.
>> It seems if they start separating near the center where
>> I think the file system resides, they no longer work at
>> all. At any rate, if I want hard copies now I can burn
>> them to top quality blank DVDs and be back in business.
>
>Yes, Sir Greg, archival data storage is a SERIOUS problem. I have also 
>encountered the degradation of CDs and DVDs. I lost some really 
>important stuff (Zappa bootleg concerts etc) that way. The question is 
>what is the answer? Few are found. One is to use nitride coated "stone 
>disks", Dye disks do not keep well. I bought some nitride but jury is 
>still out an lifetime. Years ago I tried just storing data on new hard 
>drives. It was a fail. What happened was although they were brand new 
>disks just sitting on a shelf something happened to the bearings and 
>eventually they would no longer spin up. So I try to periodically spin 
>them up to keep bearings loose. However, my experience with modern hard 
>drives is they don't seem to have the bearing problems anymore. So 
>currently all data is backed up on my server with Raid which I operate 
>periodically be not continuously so I minimize the miles on the disks.

The obvious solution is many copies on many venues. 
You can't keep all your eggs in one basket. 

>>For TV stuff which takes beaucoup room, I save it on my media server 
>which is not raid to maximize space, and then store less important 
>things on these nifty USB external drives. Today you can buy about 4 T 
>for a little over a hundred bucks. I got stacks of them and do try to 
>spin them all periodically to keep them loose just for drill, but as I 
>said I've seen no bearing problems like the old disks.

Must have learned of the problem and upgraded
the bearings or type of bearings. Seems to me solid
state is the way to go. Store in a Faraday cage in
a climate controlled place. Store many copies. 

Need a money-making idea that needs an invention?

Develop and market a USB contact cleaner. If I 
don't use my USB sockets in my laptop or other
devices in a long time, it would appear that the
electrical contacts become oxidized or corroded
and the connection won't complete. It takes 
plugging the device or cord in and out, in and out
several times to clean it up enough so the computer
or device recognizes it and doesn't give error 
messages. This is not good on devices that need
to be *unmounted* first prior to just unplugging
them. So, a simple male and female, manual
USB cleaner is needed and would probably make
one rich.

>> But, really, the .iso files are superior because they are
>> quiet - no whir from the DVD drive since they run
>> strictly off the hard drive which is too quiet to even
>> hear.
>> 
>> Oh, also backed up all seven seasons of GoT .iso files
>> to my Passport Terabyte portable USB HDD along with
>> a complete Toshiba laptop HDD backup.
>> 
>> BTW, my erstwhile, off-line touch pad is working again
>> so my old Toshiba is working like new again. Sometimes
>> I amaze even my own self with my continued competence
>> when I'm supposed to be getting old and senile. It just
>> ain't happening, folks.
>
>Sorry, Sir Greg, but in this Newsgroup achievement is no measure of 
>competence. "Old and Senile" is ONLY determined by the opinions of Nads 
>and "kensi".

The Nadsi twins' opinions determine little more than the
type and quantity of pabulum they puke.

>> Am I bad or what? I can't believe Nads doesn't admire
>> me. I can understand if she has no interest in my body
>> since she's a lesbian but how can she not love my mind?
>
>Oh she has interest in your body. She desperately desires to possess 
>your manly physique not to mention your cute male fashion styles. Men's 
>clothes just don't look as good on her as they do on you!

*Her* arms are too short. Ever see a photo of Paul Derbyshire
aka kensi, Nads, Ben Bovista, Marketa Jadalova, Yoda, Andrew
Wilson, Fakey, Seamus McRae, etc?  Looks like a Thalidomide
birth defect. Very unfortunate. No wonder he's addicted to
mushrooms. Tries to forget all his lonely virgin days.

<...>

>You obviously don't understand this newsgroup and it's denizens, Sir 
>Greg. They are LIBS! Cripes! They haven't a clue what numbers ARE let 
>alone being able to remember them in order.

True! 

>For a fair test for the libs here like "kensi" and Nads, the test must 
>be modified for liberals (Yes I understand experimental psychology too) 
>where you ask them to recall 5 of their best lies in order and then work 
>your way upward. I have little doubt that they could easily work their 
>way up to 50 or 100 lies. When you are a liar, it is of utmost 
>importance to keep all lies straight in your mind so you don't get 
>caught in one. It's the ONE thing libs are good at.

Liberals are also good, actually excellent, at denying reality,
re-writing history, being hypocrites and crybabies.

>> Time to celebrate! Time to pop the cork on another $5
>> bottle of wine... (or it might be a screw top). Gotta
>> get those damned Form 1040 Instructions out of my
>> mind. Assholes don't print them anymore so I had to
>> download them as a .pdf file on my laptop. I sure
>> didn't want to waste all that paper and ink printing
>> the damned thing so I memorized it instead. Now, I
>> feel like my mind is all cluttered up.
>
>Hey Sir Greg, don't you understand how dangerous filling you brain with 
>government bureaucrat garbage is? That can easily overload all synapses 
>and blow a few plasma relays turning you into a drooling liberal. The 
>horror! See "kensi" and Nads for examples of this medical condition.

Yes, but the liberal brain is prone to being *blown*. 
Liberals mostly operate within a *touchy-feely* 
framework. They easily become overwrought when
confronted with reality but they are so dense that
they will deny reality until and unless they become...
say, victims of an Islamic rape gang and then they 
sing a different tune. Instead of singing *Kumbayah* 
they sing, *Death to Islam* and thus reveal the 
unbridled, bigoted hatred they harbored all along.

-- 

Yours Truly,
Gregory Hall

"Well, Rancho Kookamonga IP nothwithstanding (he used to 
have a Texas IP, btw), it should be patently clear to everyone 
by now who the Fake really is." --Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries

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