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What is your worst drive failure story? I just caused a head crash on my hard drive in the dumbest way - I got pissed at something and hit my laptop. Not only is this incredibly embarrassing, but it was also amazingly avoidable. My last backup was probably 4 months ago. On a similar topic, is there any way to read information off the disk after a head crash? I know you can pay like 600+ bucks to get it professionally done, but if the disk spins and the head reads, shouldn't you be able to get some of the information off? The weird thing with my drive is that if I open my computer with Disk Utility, I can still see it, along with the "Macintosh HD" drive, but I can…
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Tornados
by Guest fiznuthian- 5 replies
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http://www.wunderground.com/blog/shauntanner/comment.html?entrynum=268 Look out Tornado Valley.. Tornado spawning storms are nightmarish.
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This is the directorial debut of Christopher Nolan's cinematographer, Wally Pfister. Nolan executive produces. It looks like a promising scifi thriller based on a current philosophical question: can consciousness be reverse engineered? If I could play Quake for an afterlife that would be nice.
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I want to see OPN on the 27th and Shackleton on the 28th. I'm throwin around couchsurfing requests but if there are any watmm montrealers that would be down to host me for the evenings of may 26th, 27th, and 28th that would be swell. I'm a good cook. I can sleep on the floor. plus, MUTEK!!!
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So apparently theres a lot of sites on the internet that will pay you for doing surveys. I know its not that much money and i dont plan to make this a full time job but it'd be nice to have a couple extra bucks for gear. I also sort of like filling out surveys. So my question is, are any of these legit? Anyone have experience or problems with these? What site should I join? Thanks
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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27117669
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Productivity Apps
by Guest Gary C- 8 replies
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So I've had a good experience with Habit Streak Plan. The "science" of the app intrigued me. That by encouraging little achievable good habits, and having daily reminders and 'streaks', you can train your brain into longer-lasting good habits. I haven't smoked at all in 160+ days since I set that target so it's worked. But right now, I am in need of a very specific good habit forming app. I have been trying to use Habit Streak Plan to encourage me in a creative project. With a goal "write 1000 words everyday". But I'm having issues with the quantitative nature of that target. I find that failing is simply too demoralising and the streak has now moved so far away that …
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Almost 5,000 posts, this is not good, i would love to restart my post count because 5,000 posts does not reflect my current form. Also it is not not fair to people who been here for 10 years 0
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Everyone begged for it to come back , and there is only me and Bob in there! Come on you conks!
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I've been on these forums before and I remember reading a topic about how you leave stuff in the sleeve and it's bad for it, am I doing it wrong or should I just buy a turntable and if so, which one should I buy and please nothing incredibly expensive. I know that there was a topic recently talking about turntables that was bumped which was ancient but sorry to ask but you guys are way older than me and know a lot more about the subject.
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british pathé https://www.britishpathe.com british pathé: youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
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I have 8,787 videos in my history but I can only get to 20 of them (the 20 most recently viewed) The button is there for 'watch 8,787' but I can't click on it. Any idea what's gone wrong?
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Great job guys, keep up the good work! As if you have a choice anyway http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/218858/the-duh-report-study-says-america-is-an-oligarchy-not-a-democracy/ From the study: Also, does anyone else find it kinda ironic that as we come upon the 25th anniversary of Back to The Future that we're now more like the alternate, then-present Biff Tannen world rather than the 2015 depicted?
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MadameChaos has organised a night of WATMM-fuelled live and DJ sets so I thought it'd also be a good idea for a possible meet up with you lovelies. Here's the poster (hopefully it hotlinks, otherwise I'll look like a right twatintheface) More details here - http://forum.watmm.com/topic/81757-electronic-underground-club-night-cafe-1001-30th-jan/ (and for those that facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/333257100145681/341258762678848/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity ) Directions and stuff to the place here - http://www.cafe1001.co.uk/ So it's the last Thursday of this month, see you folks there ...
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WATMM PGP Club 1 2
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It is now very important that all internet-using people know how to communicate securely, even over insecure channels like gmail, and with no fear of being spyed upon by e.g. the NSA. Fortunately there is a way to do this. It is called PGP. This thread is a brief explanation of PGP and how to use it, with an interactive component. Your challenge is to send me an encrypted message! HOW PUBLIC KEY CRYPTO WORKS (VAGUELY) Everyone makes their own public key and private key. You keep the private key to yourself, but advertise the public key widely (website, email signature, etc.), so that anyone who wants to message you securely uses your public key. The encrypted…
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Night Owl or Early Bird? I used to be a night owl, loved watching Letterman in the summers during high school. Discovered to my dismay duh as you get older you need more sleep. I usually pass out in my girl's lap on the couch.
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Jesus was the first zombie.
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I got my blood type tested the other day. Two different coworkers said "What was your type? NO WAIT! Let me guess first!" These were two completely different conversations, so they both independently had the urge to guess. Now just to clarify, neither of these coworkers were Korean or Japanese, and neither subscribed to the blood type horoscope theory. I asked them if they associated anything with blood types, like appearance or personality traits. Basically I wanted to know how they were guessing. One said "Probability" and the other said "I'm just blind guessing". But what's up with that? At least when you're guessing someone's age, it's based on how old…
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guess a dead people and win a prize
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http://radio.com/2014/04/17/detroit-electronic-music-festivals-return-postponed-until-2015/ I seriously thought I was moving closer to an awesome electronic music festival, waited a whole fucking year for it to come around again, and now it's fucking cancelled?! WTAF?!
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mary ann or ginger? 1 2 3
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? the question ginger on the left. mary ann on the right.
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I'll start it off... "I came twice" Sent from a mobile device using Tapatalk
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Nobody can accuse Shia LaBeouf, erstwhile star of the Transformer movies and burgeoning arthouse adventurer, of not being keen. After revealing that he took acid to prepare for a tripped-out scene in new film The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman and drank moonshine while filming John Hillcoat's upcoming prohibition tale Lawless, the 26-year-old actor has now claimed he secured a part in Lars von Trier's controversial new film Nymphomaniac by posting sex tapes to the Danish arch-provocateur. The tapes reportedly featured LaBeouf and his girlfriend Karolyn Pho, whose reaction to such salacious material falling into the hands of the most unpredictable film-maker in Eur…
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So my Beyerdynamic DTs are busted, was going to pick up another pair through my warranty, but if anyone has a better suggestion, then I'm all ears. My max budget is about 150.
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https://www.ukiyoeheroes.com/products-page/giclee/ Some of my favourites:
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