DT-Side Chat Thread v. The Blu-Ray is out so I changed the friggin' title

[hefdaddy42]

Not much.  Things are progressing along.

You?

[BlobVanDam]

Meh, about the same here. I never get much done. I blame DTF.

[wasteland]

Just got back from a trip to the city I'm going to move to in a few months. I was checking out the facility where I will live. 

[DebraKadabra]

We are going to get a shit-ton of rain over the next 24 hours.  I just hope my basement doesn't flood.

Any of that unwanted rain would be most welcome here in Texas.

[hefdaddy42]

We are going to get a shit-ton of rain over the next 24 hours.  I just hope my basement doesn't flood.

Any of that unwanted rain would be most welcome here in Texas.

YOU CAN HAVE IT

[Super Dude]

Good God, that Torts practice exam was brutal (or I think it was...I don't even know anymore). Bosk, what was your favorite 1L course?

[DebraKadabra]

YOU CAN HAVE IT

AWESOME THANK YOU

[hefdaddy42]

No flooding...yet.

[?]

Looks like we got some of that unwanted rain too

Anyway, WEEKEND!

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

I'm interested to now how the traffic flow on the site was yesterday? I've have a gut some kind of record was set around 5pm (CET) and after or maybe not. 

[Scorpion]

No flooding...yet.

We've had quite a lot of rain as well, but we aren't as lucky. Our whole town is pretty much underwater:



This is pretty much what's left of the main city. Note that there is normally a street going through under the bridge. The river is a good six to seven metres higher than normally.

[wasteland]

Holy shit, that looks like Venice on a high water day. Did your house suffer any damage?

[Scorpion]

Nope, I'm on what's the highest hill of the town, so that was lucky - we didn't even have our electricity turned off. However, pretty much the whole city is a wreck now and I'll probably be down in town a lot during the next few days helping out people that have suffered from the flood.

[wasteland]

That's great of you, bringing some relief to those who weren't as lucky as you. What's the name of your city?

[Scorpion]

Well, I'm actually from Dresden, but the flood's okay here. I go to boarding school in Meissen, though, that's where the shit hit the fan.

EDIT: The flood is apparently not rising anymore, this is what it currently looks like:

[?]

Those flood pics... There are often some spring floods in the part of Finland where I live, but never in my hometown.

[TheAtliator]

being in southern CA my entire life, I've never seen anything like that! I don't think even in pictures! Do people just stay in their houses all day? How are all those cars out?!! Does everything just get destroyed and taken away when it goes under??!

[Scorpion]

Well, the town goes on for quite a bit behind the center, there's a lot that's still (or again) above the water, and schools and public buildings have been made available for people to bunk out there (provided they don't have any relatives they can go to) after being evacuated from the flood zones. Since the flood took its time, there was enough warning for everyone to leave, so there haven't been any casualties or anything of that sort.

Most people don't stay in their houses all day, in fact, you see a lot of people, on the streets helping other victims of the flood, building dams, filling sand bags to secure doors and windows... that's also where the cars on the bridge come from, they're from voluntary helpers. You can't see it on the picture, but the other side of the river is much higher up and you can still access the bridge from there - you just can't cross the river.

[TheAtliator]

That's pretty fascinating. thank you  Best of luck to everyone!

[Scorpion]

Thank you.

[?]

Another thunderstorm... WHY MUST THERE BE ONE EVERY DAY?!

[MoraWintersoul]

Bro decisively dragged me away from the computer three hours ago

[BlobVanDam]

Bro decisively dragged me away from the computer three hours ago

Why? WHY?

[MoraWintersoul]

Bro decisively dragged me away from the computer three hours ago

Why? WHY?

The dude likes his smell of Diablo III in the morning it's good he did, since I was forced to have some study time and will have lots more in the afternoon and evening

[BlobVanDam]

Bro decisively dragged me away from the computer three hours ago

Why? WHY?

The dude likes his smell of Diablo III in the morning it's good he did, since I was forced to have some study time and will have lots more in the afternoon and evening

It's not so bad if it's for his own computering, I was just concerned it may have been just for the sake of getting someone away from a computer.
I don't understand the concept of communal computing though. I have 5 computers just in my room alone. It was 6, but my dad's computer recently died from senility, so I donated one of mine.

[wasteland]

Do you use all of them regularly? I have one proper PC and a laptop, and I almost exclusively use the latter.

[BlobVanDam]

Do you use all of them regularly? I have one proper PC and a laptop, and I almost exclusively use the latter.

Nope, mostly just the one main PC which I do everything on.
I also have a Mac tucked away in the corner which I use fairly regularly for rendering, test installing or running stuff I don't want to do on my main computer, and the occasional Mac only program.
I have an old laptop which I use fairly rarely, although it comes in handy as the only XP machine I have.
Then the other 2/3 computers are my dedicated render machines, which I used to use a lot, although haven't used in a while because for some reason my power goes hinky now when I have 3 or 4 computers on at once.

[MoraWintersoul]

The horrors of communal computing: a few years ago we got a second computer for the room so we all just switched back and forth between all three of them. Then both my brother and my sister gradually started saving all their stuff to only one of the computers, started refusing using the other one as well, so I get to use either of them only when they're not doing something, and I have to have my stuff spread out across both - some 80 gb of music (it used to be way more, but then I cleared out) on my brother's computer and the 60ish or more gb of DT bootlegs on my sister's computer (and that will sadly not increase as I'm pretty sure she's super mad at me for clogging hard drive space with "useless stuff"). And since my bro can't get his computer to access my sister's, I have to have all my documents/pictures/gifs spread across both.

I know I need a laptop, I'm just opposed to getting one since I'll never get off the internet then

[wasteland]

Well, I use my regular PC for large uploads, because I live in the belief that it would get less  hurt than the laptop would if I let it running for two days in a row.

[MoraWintersoul]

Treating your laptop with love

[wasteland]

Treating your laptop with love

Yeah, but that didn't prevent him to lose pieces like a leprous 

[BlobVanDam]

Well, I use my regular PC for large uploads, because I live in the belief that it would get less  hurt than the laptop would if I let it running for two days in a row.

Neither one should really have a problem with it, although a PC has better cooling and is more durable, so long time probably a wise move.
I tend to do all of my big uploads on my Mac, just because my main PC is too damn loud to leave on overnight. I do often leave both on overnight often rendering on a deadline.

I'd hate to have all of my data spread out across multiple machines. Much easier to organize and back up on the same computer. I have at least two backups of most of my stuff, although my 2TB external is updated a lot more frequently, because my 1TB externals don't fit everything.

[wasteland]

I have my bootlegs spread among two 500GB and one 2TB hard drives, and I live in fear of one of those (or all of them!) to just die out, so I have been planning to do a general DVD backup for quite a long time. My parents say I'm crazy and have tried to hinder my efforts, but at least the most precious of them have been stored away of the HDs.

[BlobVanDam]

I've thought about making DVD backups, although with the size of a DVD, it would take a while, even for the essentials, plus you have to split it all to fit. And then you still have to worry about how durable they are.

Redundancy is always good though. The more backups you have, the less chance of losing data. My externals have saved me a couple of times. First, when my 500GB drive died (which had all of my TV shows and movies on it), then when my 320GB drive started failing, I was able to back it up and migrate over to a new drive much easier. I've luckily never lost any notable data in the entire time I've had my own computer. I still have backups of my floppies from my old 486!

I'm most worried about the irreplaceable than just mere pain in the ass to replace. If I lose TV shows, or music, those files exist elsewhere, so I could replace them, even though it would be a hassle. But then I have all of my own work, that doesn't exist anywhere but on my PC. I don't know what I'd do if I lost any of that.

[Super Dude]

Another thunderstorm... WHY MUST THERE BE ONE EVERY DAY?!

Yep, I tried to warn all a y'all.