https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=2613
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GrouchoCaesar
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 03:00 AM

Groan Goes The Platters Of My Hard-drives...
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I'm bored - I just got broadband connected and a 4-port router to boot, so I can use my own PC now instead of my sisters. Finally got a cable to connect it to my machine this morning, and here I am.

So I've backed up all my critical stuff, installed spyware-blockers, firewalls, and I'm up to installing the inevitable virus-checker.  Done, that, set it to scan... and it's been going a while now.  Just before I started writing this meanderig rant, I noticed it was up to 762,000 files and rising...

Thats over THREE-QUARTER OF A MILLION FILES!!!  When did this happen?!?

What scares me is I've still got 200Gb free, and I've just got an all-you-can-eat ADSL connection...

GrouchoC

(Final Talley... 824,239 files... nearly 300,000 of them images.)


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ahjah
Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 08:10 AM

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Hey, what's all this images :grin:  :wink: ?
I'm looking foreward to getting my ADSL in about two weeks, and I already know the next thing I'll need will be a bigger HD :roll:  :prrr:


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GrouchoCaesar
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 10:10 AM

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Ummm.... would you believe biological art studies....? (Ahem)

Actually, just a HUGE bunch of scans, photos and CGI renders. A lot of them are pinups - the  paintings, not the cheesecake.  Plus science fiction, scenery backdrops, technology... the usual.

Back in the dark ages I used to play around with video title production and whenever Igot hold of a CD-ROM of pictures I'd back it up.  Guess it just grew 'n' grew 'n' grew...

GrouchoC


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Tormie
Thursday, 30 November 2006, 04:32 PM

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Well, actually when I reach the limit I take some DVD and start to transfer the stuff I downloaded on them, it's very boring but I've to do it often, the bad thing is that I forget a lot of things that I've saved  :oops:  :oops: , I need some more organization here  :uuh:


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GrouchoCaesar
Friday, 01 December 2006, 08:39 PM

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Since I am highly paranoid about what's out there in Dataland, I've made it a cast-iron rule to back up, and back up often.  I think I've been through a couple of CD Burners that way, and my DVD Burner is starting to get a little iffy as well.  Good excuse to upgrade to Dula-Layer, though!

I think I've got 800 discs of so stashed all over the place...  I use a little freeware program called Catfish to keep track of what's on them, or I would go nuts.  Even so, I still lose track of some stuff.

GrouchoC


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Tormie
Saturday, 02 December 2006, 01:37 AM

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Good hint with that catfidh (What else for Garfield?). I'll take a look


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GrouchoCaesar
Sunday, 03 December 2006, 09:24 AM

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It's well worth the look - the software is small, fast  and simple.  And the  price is great!

[url=http://www.equi4.com/]Catfish 1.9 - better than closing your eyes and randomly picking a disk!

I've been using it for 6 years now... no complaints.

GrouchoC.


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Posy
Sunday, 03 December 2006, 09:24 AM


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Oh.   <condition> GrouchoCaesar. your age is safe with me.    </condition> You are too old for me.


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GrouchoCaesar
Sunday, 03 December 2006, 09:25 AM

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Oh... my little bit babe... you break my heart!


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Tormie
Sunday, 03 December 2006, 05:46 PM

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:uuh:  :uuh:  :uuh:


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GrouchoCaesar
Monday, 11 December 2006, 06:40 AM

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On a related note to my introduction of this topic, I have a question.

How obsessive-compulsive is it to try and suck down the entire freebie content of Renderosity?  I mean, really?  It's not as if I actually need all the files I've been snarfing down.

Seriously though, have any of you out there been through the "gimme, gimme, gimme!" stage?

(It seems to be fading now I've finished with 'Rosity...)

I wouldn't mind it, but for the fact I've been so busy finding stuff for Poser that I haven't actually [i]used[/i] the program in about a week now!

GrouchoC


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Tormie
Monday, 11 December 2006, 03:00 PM

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Take all the freebies has sense because we can't know if the freebies will be available in the future, a lot of them disappear because the site is no more existing for example. This is the reason why we try to host here all the Posette's freebies that is possible to obtain from the authors  :)


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Posy
Monday, 11 December 2006, 03:00 PM


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Where do you want me to take it?


