Ursa_Eagle Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 I'd get a mac if I had enough disposable income... iPod + iTunes = another good thing about macs and ipods: one of my friends actually managed to screw up his powerbook (he knew he was screwing around with it and acknowledged that it was his own fault), and somehow managed to boot up off his iPod to restore his system (don't ask me how, but he did it). That's just plain sweet. Quote
fleblebleb Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 If you put in enough security measures to be safe, then you can no longer do anything. Hey, it makes perfect sense, security is intended to get in people's way right? Â Allison, if you had enough of a system left to get a blue screen then that means your file system was intact, which means all your data was fine... until the reformat. Â Screwdriver + a friend with an intact machine -> plug your disk into friend's machine -> recover your stuff since only the OS was warped. Â But, now it's too late because paying somebody to recover what was left after the reformat is prohibitively expensive. Oops Quote
fleblebleb Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 Actually, any computer problem you can fix with a screwdriver is a good computer problem Quote
erik Posted April 30, 2003 Posted April 30, 2003 fleblebleb said: Actually, any computer problem you can fix with a screwdriver is a good computer problem  ALL MY COMPUTER PROBLEMS ARE FIXED WITH A REBOOT, A KICK AND 14 'F' WORDS.   Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Fejas said: I don't know what you mac dorks are talkin' bout, macs crash too... I had an plder mac that went ca-put... I assume by plder you mean older? There's no comparision between older macs and today's lineup running bsd. I have a system here that's been running for 243 days currently w/o a hitch Quote
erik Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 iain said: Fejas said: I don't know what you mac dorks are talkin' bout, macs crash too... I had an plder mac that went ca-put... I assume by plder you mean older? There's no comparision between older macs and today's lineup running bsd. I have a system here that's been running for 243 days currently w/o a hitch  YOU HAVE MORE THE ONE COMPUTER??  Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 I have never had to buy a computer but I have 4 right now. Just got to work for the right people or be a student Quote
Fejas Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 same could be said about a PC though... I got a brand new dell last may, and I never have had to reboot, a few end tasks hear and there but that is the programs not the machine... and yes P=O... Quote
ChrisT Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 iain said: Fejas said: I don't know what you mac dorks are talkin' bout, macs crash too... I had an plder mac that went ca-put... I assume by plder you mean older? There's no comparision between older macs and today's lineup running bsd. I have a system here that's been running for 243 days currently w/o a hitch  I concur. Also, I believe the i-Pods are like mini hard drives and that's why Ursa's friend was able to boot up his PowerBook from one. Quote
Ursa_Eagle Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Allison, I just remembered about a program called "Lost and Found". I had a massive crash a few years ago: File Allocation Tables (FAT) got all kinds of screwed up. I used this program to retrieve some data that would have been lost. I thought I was so lucky that I had backed up my system less than a week earlier, but this program would have gotten it back. It ignores the FAT (what you get rid of when you a quick format), and just looks at the files on the disk directly. Some formats will go through and completely remove all the data, and if this happened then you're unfortunately SOL. Anything that's been written over since you formatted the computer (by installing your OS, programs, adding files, etc.) will be gone, but there's no way to tell what has or hasn't been written over. You'll need access to another computer with enough space on their hard drive to get everything that you need off of yours. If you need any help, PM me. Quote
allison Posted May 1, 2003 Author Posted May 1, 2003 Me and the Dell guy (in Nashville) did a full reformat. Not a quick one. Â Is there any hope? Â I do have both a second computer (it is a Mac tho) and a second HD on my PC. It's a small one, only 2gb, but there is nothing on it. Â I guess I should have either logged on on my other computer and let you guys talk me out of it or taken it to a shop. I don't know anything about computers. Â Â Quote
Figger_Eight Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Notice nobody on this board who owns a Mac ever complains about theirs. Hmmm....wonder why Quote
snoboy Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Figger_Eight said: Notice nobody on this board who owns a Mac ever complains about theirs. Hmmm....wonder why  Hmmm.. Maybe they spent so much on a slow machine that they are embarressed to complain about it! Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 I'll take the Pepsi challenge with my dual 1.42 g4's any day of the week holmes Quote
Figger_Eight Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 snoboy said: Figger_Eight said: Notice nobody on this board who owns a Mac ever complains about theirs. Hmmm....wonder why  Hmmm.. Maybe they spent so much on a slow machine that they are embarressed to complain about it!  Hmmm...if I remember right, the G3's were classified as a supercomputer and weren't allowed to be exported to China. Yeah...that's pretty slow Quote
johnny_destiny Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Dru said: believing a system crash was meant to get you is a sign of paranoia???? SIGNS OF PARANOIA ARE SIGNS OF A GUILTY conscience. If one trusts in the Lord Our Heavenly Father we would find paranoia slipping from our grasp as we would find that our treatment of the human race in general would be following the Golden Rule. Thus we would receive His blessings each and everyday. Seek Him and you shall find freedom. Gd Bless. JD Â Quote
ctuller Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Figger_Eight said: Notice nobody on this board who owns a Mac ever complains about theirs. Hmmm....wonder why Only because the millions of us that did have problems have already trashed them and moved up to a real computer. Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 funny how so many musicians, artists, power users, programmers, and scientists disagree with you Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 sorry dude, I have to tow the party line around here lest I get fired from my job Quote
iain Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 ChrisT said: you work for apple? more like I "deal" with apple as I used to be an apple cert technician but now just do web stuff. making good use of those geo and bio degrees eh? Quote
ctuller Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Sweet. I'm getting great use out of the Anthropology/Sociology degrees I got. Quote
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