Re: Got my Season 7 Game of Thrones DVDs

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.

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.

> 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".

> 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!

> Seriously, when I was in my late 20's a friend of mine
> who was going for his doctorate in education wanted to
> practice giving me a few standard IQ tests to gain
> experience. I believe he was majoring in special education
> but I guess those retards also get IQ tested. Anyway,
> of the three tests I participated in (some of it was verbal
> and some written) I scored 145 on one, 157 on another
> and 165 on a third. Of course, I was in my prime then.
> Now, about forty five years later, I've undoubtedly lost
> a few points but I'm still squarely located in the genius
> range. I bet Nads and kensi's IQ tests can't compare.
> 
> I recall how amazed my friend was when he tested
> my memory recall. What he did was say, "I'm going
> to read out loud a series of random numbers. All you
> have to do is remember as many as you can in the
> correct order and say them back to me."  He started
> out easy with five numbers and worked his way up to
> twenty. At ten, when I repeated them correctly, he
> raised his eyebrows, at fifteen correct, he rolled his
> eyes, at twenty he almost became apoplectic. When
> I repeated all twenty back to him in the correct
> order, he was so shocked. He said not one in ten
> million people could do that.  Try it.  See what your
> feeble intellects can do with it. I bet seven or eight
> at the most. Skeet would be lucky to remember five
> correctly with his burned out marijuana brain.

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.

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.

> 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.