In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm surprised it's green up there now, Brenda.
I think we set a record for how much of the US was covered in show around Thanksgiving. Luckily, that seemed to miss us.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
It's green on the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The rest of the country not so much. Alberta eastward is white.
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How you liking your first winter in your new place? :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Got my hard drive enclosure shipped a day early. Say what you will about Amazon, but they certainly are quick...
As I had expected, the manufacturer's migration program still could not detect the drive. I'm assuming that this is because of the old BIOS, but it could be a number of other things as well. I don't have any USB3.0 slots on the computer, so maybe it just doesn't work on USB2.0 either.
Oh well. Nifty little case here with an on/off switch. So I got a blazing fast 250GB external SSD now that will allow me to do a bunch of cool things when I get around to them, and will serve as remote storage that I could even use as my own "cloud" and make my own crappy little website with until then. 
The partition/backup software is AWESOME. It's by a company called AEOMI.
It turns out that I still want to make more tweaks, some controller configs on some things and install a few more programs before I make my "official" backup for this system, but it will be a breeze when I'm ready to do it and even with my limited resources it's up to doing the task in the background without slowing down youtube streaming. And now that I already have it backed up once, if anything goes terribly wrong from now until then I can just make another clone. :)
Because I'm using the free version, I have to make the clone from scratch every time. If I paid 50 bucks for the paid version, I would be able to do it much quicker since it would do a scan and only change the differences in the clone image.
I had about 210GB used on a 320GB drive before cloning, and it made a compressed file around 135GB... so the compression is an added bonus.
But the kicker, and why I think this is so awesome?
Once the cloning process was finished, I have an option in the sofware to "View the Backup in Explorer".
Now, I thought that was just going to allow me to simply look at the file names and verify that the program had actually done both partitions of the drive. Nope...
The program will actually mount whatever partitions are in the image to Virtual Drives that you can not only view, but you can actually run any of the data that are in them too! It's a bit slower to run the stuff because of the compression, especially on my old system. It reminds me of using Doublespace back in the days of Windows 3.1. But unlike those days, even a computer as slow as mine has a ton of memory compared to the 90's, so once they're loaded into memory I can run music or videos off of that Virtual Drive backup as if it were an actual hard drive. Unbelievable.
This computer is running so good now compared to before. For about a year I hadn't been able to do things like plug a controller into it to play games, and once it had been left on a day or so I had to constantly kill my internet and bring it back up since it was running so slow. All of those problems are gone now. No more device conflicts. And the drive I've got in there now passes all the SMART tests with no errors.
I was also able to figure out how to correctly configure my project with a new OS install, and everything works as it did when I had originally set it up. This was the single reason that I hadn't done anything about this until now, and now I know exactly how to set it up again at any time in the future without losing any of my work. (Not only that, but now I can install it on my brother's PC's as well, as I know they're going to get a lot of enjoyment out of it).
It was a lot of work getting there, but now that it's all backed up it's work I won't ever have to do again with that computer until it dies. It's also the roadmap to how I'm going to set up any new computers I put together in the future. I learned a lot. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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That's awesome, SIX! You're an incredibly quick learner.
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So, nothing to do with anything Brenda, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered that in my experience, one way to help keep a positive outlook in winter is to stay toasty and dry.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
That's awesome, SIX! You're an incredibly quick learner.
I give all the credit the cheap coffee at ALDI.
All joking aside, I was never much for learning from a set curriculum. When I'm interested in something or I'm looking at getting out of paying for expensive repairs or having somebody else do something I could do, look out.
Now if I could only translate that into getting a decent job...
I'm going through old programs I've saved over the years now... There's a ton of them, and more than a few that were cracked and had viruses just waiting to be triggered. Boring stuff, but I'm trying to declutter my virtual hoard. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, nothing to do with anything Brenda, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered that in my experience, one way to help keep a positive outlook in winter is to stay toasty and dry.
Dry is easy here now that I've waterproofed the house...
Toasty is an issue though.
I've got to settle for "well... at least I'm not freezing my balls off".
meh... I'm used to it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
How you liking your first winter in your new place? :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm liking it just fine. I'm nice and cosy. So nice not to have to worry about getting things done. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, nothing to do with anything Brenda, but as I was thinking about it, I remembered that in my experience, one way to help keep a positive outlook in winter is to stay toasty and dry.
I'll be able to do that. But still have a bit of the winter blues. Got hit last night but dealt with it.
Christmas cards starting to come in and I am mailing a few.
Christmas tree waiting to go up and I will.
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