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Pups was feeling exceptionally good about himself as he walked into the Emma clubhouse bar; he had on his new aviation polo shirt with the letters "TFZ_007" emblazoned above the left front pocket. He decided that since he writes about himself in the 3rd person so much, that he had a good handle on achieving a virtual detached persona somewhat like Fritz does, and today he was going to try out his "James Bond -007" personality style.
He sits down at the bar next to officer Barbie orders a double Uncle Elmer's #5 on ice for himself "and the charming lady" to his right, gives her a quick glance, then casually looks at his watch for a moment.
Barbie notices this and asks "Is your date running late?"
"No" he replies "Q's just given me this state of the art watch and I was just testing it"
Intrigued, Barbie says "A state of the art watch? What's so special about it"
'Bond' explains, "It uses alpha waves to talk to me telepathically"
Barbie says "What's it telling you now?"
'Bond' replies"Well, it says you're not wearing any knickers..."
Barbie giggled and replied "Well it must be broken because I really am wearing knickers!"
'Bond' tuts outloud, taps his watch and says "Damn thing's an hour fast".
Nonplussed, but somewhat exhilirated, Barbie just smiles, and says he'd probably need a more accurate "timepiece" if he wants to be an "undercover agent" capable of synchronizing watches and "other things" to the satisfaction of a lady "femme fatale". "By the way" she said, "I noticed the 007 codename on your shirt, and I just have to ask, what is your real name?"
'Bond' replied: "Puppy... Skinny Puppy"
Barbie seemed somewhat confused for a moment, and then said "Oh, you mean like a little short wiener dog?"
'Bond' replied, "No, that's just a nickname I kept from my younger years; something more along the lines of 'Big Dog' might be more applicable now that I'm all grown up and I'm on 'Her Majesty's Secret Service'."
Barbie, thinking this might be a guy's subtle hint that he has a lot of experience being "of service" to women in general, was titillated and said: "So, I take it you don't need a watch to 'synchronize' with a lady?"
"Bond" said: "Well, I thought it didn't matter since you can never tell when a woman is 'faking' it!"
Barbie thought for a moment about her prior experience with Shecky Greenbaum in Hollywood for her "screen test", then tacitly replied: "Well, it's only fair, since men can fake entire relationships!"
Pups gulped down his entire glass of chilled E-rations as things cooled a little with Barbie at that point. Feeling the effects of the Fritz Deter family hooch already impairing his inhibitory brain circuits, he thought he'd try out some humor to cultivate rapport by telling a secret agent joke.
"Three secret agents were having lunch, one was CIA, one was Israeli Mossad, and the other was British M-5. There was a slight buzzing sound and the Brit opened his mouth, unscrewed a tooth, put it to his ear and listened. He then held the tooth to his mouth and said "I'm eating now, and I'll get back to you."
"The CIA man's tie-clip began to beep, and he then followed the same basic scenario as the British agent."
"All of a sudden the agent from the Mossad let out some rip-roaring loud gas. 'Excuse me' he said, 'I'm getting a fax'!"
Barbie had not been drinking at all from the glass of hooch Pups had bought her, and had not gotten the joke. She gave a quizzical smile and said quietly to Pups "I wonder how he printed it out?"; then she ordered a diet cola for herself.
Pups, undaunted, decided to be a bit more direct in his circumferential humor, and tried a more ribald topic this time; "How about this one" he said with progressively slurred speech.
"On his first trip to Japan, James Bond wanted some 'action' on his first night in town, before playing golf the next morning with the Japanese Prime Minister and some dignitaries. Later that evening when he had the most beautiful Geisha girl in Tokyo charmed into his bed, she started softly moaning "Yaki-San Yaki-San" in her dainty voice as he took time for kyūkei . The manly Bond, being the confident and intelligent agent he is, assumed he had learned a new Japanese word, "Yaki-San" which he took to be an expression of joy and elation.
The next morning, on the 8th tee, his golfing partner, the Japanese Prime Minister, hit a beautiful shot on the 161-yard par 3... the ball hit the front of the green, and rolled into the cup. Everyone began offering congratulations and celebrating, and the Japanese Prime Minister started jumping up and down, and began yelling "Bonsai, Bonsai!"
Mr. Bond, ever eager to impress an international audience, realized he had an opportunity to show his command of cultural skills, and slapped his partner on the back and with a big smile, told the Prime Minister "Yaki-San, Yaki-San!"
"All the Japanese suddenly became silent and looked at Mr. Bond. The Prime Minister stopped jumping up and down, then in broken English said, "What you mean, 'Wrong Hole, Wrong Hole?' ".
Shaken, but still not stirred within, Barbie said: "So, 007 wasn't using the proper translation when he spoke to the Prime Minister; does that mean he had to forfeit the golf game?"
Pups, still somewhat cognizant of his better judgement, said: "Well, Barbie, lets just say a lot of things can get 'Lost In Translation'."
Barbie replied: "Oh, I saw that movie, starring Bill Murray from Saturday Night Live; he got involved with that girl when they were both in Tokyo. I just didn't get a that movie's message."
Pups thought to himself, "This isn't going to get too far this evening, and I'm getting too drunk anyway." So he said to Barbie, "Excuse me, but I've got to go check my e-mail, I'll see you later sometime."
Barbie replied: "Oh, no problem, I'm late for my workout at the gym down in Lilliwaup anyway, see you later too!"
And thus went the first of a series of "covert ops" by Pups' new "007" alter ego. As he walked off to check his e-mail on the command console in the new Emma bathroom he thought to himself: "James Bond wouldn't have given up so easily; this is gonna' take some practice!" :mrgreen:
GaryGB
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Hi Chris:
Rather nervous door in Britain if I do say so meself! :shock: I wonder what it is alarmed about? :?: Must be the inevitable pervasive feelings of uncertainty cause by the impermanence of all that coming and going; people look right through you, and use you as a doorway to another destination...! :? Must be like what happens with postal workers; all that mail and packages going through your hands year after year, but none addressed to yourself, as if everyone is just using you as a means to an end... it's enough to make you... GO POSTAL! :D
Sorry for the recent lapse of mentation, my brain has been recovering from a lot of driving to and from "Da U.P." and urgent "catch up" work at the office.
It does get a little worrisome when one sees the forum's vital signs go on life support in the summer for even a day, doesn't it? Although in previous years the EFFC forum seemed to slow down somewhat in late spring as did AVSIM releases, it has been more dramatic each year, and last year it went off the map for a long time until we all fanned the flames back up again this last half a year or so. I'd hate to see the same comatose state we had last summer set in here at EFFC again; for me, a day without posts at EFFC forum is like a day without sunshine! :idea:
Regarding my vacation trip: I need a vacation to recover from my vacation!
In the U.P. (Upper Peninsula of Wisconsin/Michigan), with its nearly 2,000 foot elevation "hills" it is somewhat similar in appearance to rural Washington state, Canada and Alaska in that it has post-glacial forests of spruce, birch and aspen trees interspersed with lakes, marshes and sloughs of marvellous visual splendor year round, with a higher great lakes-effect snowfall in a long winter season. The people there are friendly, somewhat stoic, and at times comically almost "redneck" in their approach to the upkeep of vehicles and buildings, and in their sales promotion related signage. My favorite sign this trip reminded me of the "AVGAS"/E-Ration pump at Emma Field as I passed a BP Amoco gas station/convenience store in Iron River, MI with this sign in large letters at the roadside:
PAY AT
THE PUMP
LIQUOR
Direct and to the point, eh? :lol: (U.P. residents and their honorary part-time residents and devotees, called "Yoopers", are known for often ending their sentences with "Eh?" like some in parts of northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada as well) :wink:
More mischief to come... :twisted:
GaryGB
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Emma Field Lean & Mean Militia intel accidentally spots an amazing secret underground rocket base concealed under the Melbourne Lake drainage marsh by the EFFC Ultralight base above the Waterfalls. :shock:
Before L&M recon troops get over to the rocket base (they had to finish watching a movie with great aviation footage on the 60 inch satellite TV with surround sound at the clubhouse), the rocket blasts off, scaring the crap out of Uncle Elmer! :twisted:
Who is behind this suspicious new development at Emma?!!! :?:
GaryGB
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Hi Madaz:
How about these notable statements: :roll:
Quoth the Burning Bush: I Am That I Am!
Quoth The Beatles (in "I am the Walrus"): I am he, as you are he, as you are me, and we are all together!
Quoth Rene Descartes: I think... therefore I am.
Quoth Curly of "The 3 Stooges": I keep tryin' ta' think, but nuttin' happens!
Quoth Francis Bacon: Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
And a few for Pups: :wink:
Quoth Agnes Repplier: Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."
- Steven Wright
GaryGB
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Hi Chris:
Maybe we should make a humor topic with links as a sticky; there's so much comedy here now, though, that one might have to index and hyperlink the entire EFFC forum! :shock:
GaryGB
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Another exceptional creation, Pups! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'll have to come up with a good reply after I take a few days off for the US Memorial Day holiday weekend; gotta' leave here shortly.
My weekend will be 4 days long in the scenic rural forests of the Upper Peninsula (Da' U.P.) of Michigan and Wisconsin, so I'll probably come back "Chock Full O' Nuts" and ready for some more mischief at the Good Ol' EFFC!
PS: I'll do some target practice out in the wilds! :wink:
Take Care Everyone! 8)
GaryGB
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William should have known better, it's Woe is I.
Hey Pups:
...Or in your case "Whoa" is I!
The plural of Syllabus is...? Yes yes, I know you can use syllabuses as well - but in "proper English" one should talk "syllabi" and the plural of forum is likewise fora, addendum and addenda, memorandum and memorandaHey Chris:
Quoth the 3 Stooges:
"Ona-cona-pona-sana... Onomatopoeia... Pectin!" :shock:
Quoth Fred Flintstone:
"Yabba-Dabba-Dooo!" :P
Which of course brings us now to the really pressing topic of: CARTOON LAWS OF PHYSICS ! 8)
Cartoon Law I
Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation.
Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over.
Cartoon Law II
Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly.
Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely. Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease.
Cartoon Law III
Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter.
Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction.
Cartoon Law IV
The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken.
Such an object is inevitably priceless, the attempt to capture it inevitably unsuccessful.
Cartoon Law V
All principles of gravity are negated by fear.
Psychic forces are sufficient in most bodies for a shock to propel them directly away from the earth's surface. A spooky noise or an adversary's signature sound will induce motion upward, usually to the cradle of a chandelier, a treetop, or the crest of a flagpole. The feet of a character who is running or the wheels of a speeding auto need never touch the ground, especially when in flight.
Cartoon Law VI
As speed increases, objects can be in several places at once.
This is particularly true of tooth-and-claw fights, in which a character's head may be glimpsed emerging from the cloud of altercation at several places simultaneously. This effect is common as well among bodies that are spinning or being throttled.
A wacky character has the option of self-replication only at manic high speeds and may ricochet off walls to achieve the velocity required.
Cartoon Law VII
Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel entrances; others cannot.
This trompe l'oeil inconsistency has baffled generations, but at least it is known that whoever paints an entrance on a wall's surface to trick an opponent will be unable to pursue him into this theoretical space.
The painter is flattened against the wall when he attempts to follow into the painting. This is ultimately a problem of art, not of science.
Cartoon Law VIII
Any violent rearrangement of feline matter is impermanent.
Cartoon cats possess even more deaths than the traditional nine lives might comfortably afford. They can be decimated, spliced, splayed, accordion-pleated, spindled, or disassembled, but they cannot be destroyed. After a few moments of blinking self pity, they reinflate, elongate, snap back, or solidify.
Corollary:
A cat will assume the shape of its container.
Cartoon Law IX
Everything falls faster than an anvil.
Cartoon Law X
For every vengeance there is an equal and opposite revengeance.
This is the one law of animated cartoon motion that also applies to the physical world at large. For that reason, we need the relief of watching it happen to a duck instead.
Cartoon Law Amendment A
A sharp object will always propel a character upward.
When poked (usually in the buttocks) with a sharp object (usually a pin), a character will defy gravity by shooting straight up, with great velocity.
Cartoon Law Amendment B
The laws of object permanence are nullified for "cool" characters.
Characters who are intended to be "cool" can make previously nonexistent objects appear from behind their backs at will. For instance, the Road Runner can materialize signs to express himself without speaking.
Cartoon Law Amendment C
Explosive weapons cannot cause fatal injuries.
They merely turn characters temporarily black and smokey.
Cartoon Law Amendment D
Gravity is transmitted by slow-moving waves of large wavelengths.
Their operation can be wittnessed by observing the behavior of a canine suspended over a large vertical drop. Its feet will begin to fall first, causing its legs to stretch. As the wave reaches its torso, that part will begin to fall, causing the neck to strech. As the head begins to fall, tension is released and the canine will resume its regular proportions until such time as it strikes the ground.
Cartoon Law Amendment E
Dynamite is spontaneously generated in "C-spaces" (spaces in which cartoon laws hold).
The process is analogous to steady-state theories of the universe which postulated that the tensions involved in maintaining a space would cause the creation of hydrogen from nothing. Dynamite quanta are quite large (stick sized) and unstable (lit). Such quanta are attracted to psychic forces generated by feelings of distress in "cool" characters (see Amendment B, which may be a special case of this law), who are able to use said quanta to their advantage. One may imagine C-spaces where all matter and energy result from primal masses of dynamite exploding. A big bang indeed. :mrgreen:
(see also: http://remarque.org/~doug/cartoon-physics.html )
GaryGB
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"Romane ite domum" Gary?
"The life of Brian"
...along with Ocelot Spleens...
Hi Chris:
You win the prize: "Centuwian, thwow him down!" :D
PS: When are you going to do some stunt flying between the twin peaks of Mt. Washington overshadowing our matching clubhouses at 'Emmas'? :lol:
GaryGB
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1) I had a serious talk with Pups
and he's agreed to not talk in the third person anymore. I haven't even the foggiest where he's picking up those bad habits.2) That was super funny!
Religion is/can be such a touchy subject, and even mentioning it carries risks. You handled that really well! 
3) It appears that Pups got away with it! Gary's excuse is even better than Pups', either way though, Pups is impressed with Gary's posteriori knowledge; and feels that Gary would have made a good epistemologist. Putting his $1.98 Funk and Wagnall away, Pups returns to his post...
4) 'Holy Roaming Empire' Pups cries out!
Gary is also into Latin and is an obvious fan of the Pythons.Hi Pups:
1.) With all them universes out there/in there, yer' a multi-dimensional kind of guy like Fritzois!
2.) I like "just a little bit of Peril', so always I push the envelope; the post office is the only complainer thus far.
3.) I know some subjects like the back of my... 'posteriori'. Now that you mention it, I've also heard people talking about the consequences of some of my transgressions behind my back: "He pi$$ed 'em all off just like that"; so thats what they call the study of my behavior... 'Epistemology!
4.) I was hoping to coax Chris into revealing his true expertise here; in a pinch I'll help keep the ball rolling!
PS: regarding the purported number of universes "in the universe", I have of late been rather taken with the attitude of the Discovery Channel's MythBuster ADAM SAVAGE, who said: "I reject your reality, and substitute my own!"
(PLEASE see: (a must see) http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbsters.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters
Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"-- :roll:
GaryGB
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Not much pomp and circumstance, and no cap and gown when one graduates from the "School of Hard Knocks" either. :wink:
GaryGB
I went to that one too..
But for some strange reason I never learned some things till after I graduated..
Hey Madaz, looks like we used to go to different schools together! :lol:
GaryGB
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Bang goes another keyboard!!! I was daft enough to have a bottle of becks poised at an unfortunate angle!
Curse thee, sir! (And we all know how to spell and pronounce that word!)
BTW - Magnanimous? Isn't that some form of erupting rodent? My spraying efforts with the KA26 worked then! :lol: :lol:
Hee Hee Heee! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hiya' Chris!
One might think of 'Magnanimous' as a curvaceous Nanny with a magnetic personality wearing a swedish maid outfit and toy Mickey Mouse Club ears! :twisted: (Britney Spears got her start as a featured artist in the Mickey Mouse Club!)
Ya' gotta get one of those keyboard covers I mentioned (see: http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.p3&start=45 )
If this 'up-chuckle' problem keeps 'coming back' on ya', one might be concerned about having a case of "Eructal Dysfunction"! :shock:
PS: I wouldn't be too sure about spraying to get rid of what the Wabbit calls "them damn foreigners" (moles) out on the Emma fairway! (see: http://www.themoleman.com/ ) :wink: :!:
But an admirable flying performance with a very cool aircraft nonetheless (and ya' still deserve the BMW)! 8)
I guess since Wabbit's out of town with Cecil, this behooves more 'drastic' measures for mole abatement, huh? :mrgreen:
Maybe Chris can teach Gary and Pups his version of the "Big Bang Theory" and "Eliminating Moles in a Calculated Manner"! :idea:
(serendipitously related site: http://www.moleday.org/ )
GaryGB
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Hi Pups:
In a magnanimous act of grace, Gary seeks to emulate the attributes of the high and mighty (and in doing so, tries writing about himself in the 3rd person like Pups; hope Pups doesn't mind!). He looks down at the Earth below from 12,000 ft high in the heavens above Emma Field, and with his fledgling omniscient X-ray vision, sees Pups abruptly http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=52204 )
Gary then sees Pups kneeling down before this, the most sanitary of pedestals at Emma (to which the computer is connected at the right hand side of the 'throne') and as Pups assumes a position of prayer, he appears to be suddenly aware of just how "filled with the spirit" he has become. Moved to the very core of his being, he is overcome with uncontrollable waves of contractions in the pit of his gut causing him to exuberantly pour out the innermost things he had been ruminating over since Fritz served him that "gourmet mexican burrito with mole sauce" at lunch. Over the less noisy replacement fan in the newly outfitted clubhouse bathroom, passers by could now hear the apparent religious experience taking place therein as exclamations, exhortations and affirmations were hurled out interspersed with "Oh, God... not again! and "Jesus, I promise not to drink Uncle Elmers #5 again, if you just please make this stop!"
"Flushed in the face", and finally feeling emptied of himself, Pups humbly sits down on the high tech sanitary pedestal and notices a series of pop-up messages on the screen from Gary flying high above the field in his satellite internet connected Lake Amphibian. The message reads:
"Peace be with you; to you I give the 'peace of my mind' which sets you free from your anguish."
"Between the Alpha and the Omega there is indeed a Beta.
And since I did come here in Peace;
Truth be told,
As your heart has gone Gold,
You are hereby a candidate for release!"
"Blessed are the cheesemakers, for the barcheese shall bring peace to the very bowels of your being; go get some right now!"
"And do not grieve over the implications of using 'hieratical' rather than 'hierarchical', most of the hits for that word on Google show 'its' use to be widespread on college campuses among computer savvy individuals and Macintosh users!" (please notice they're listed separately here! :twisted: )
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When not in Rome, use that word and you'll hear: 'Romane Ite Domum!' " (Chris: name that movie !).
Feeling a changed person, Pups went back to the bar, sat down and turned on the big screen satellite TV to watch the hockey game, as Gary flew off to do touch and go's on the waters of Lake Cushman. Maybe today won't turn out to be such a bad day after all. :roll:
Forgiveness must be good for the soul too! :mrgreen:
GaryGB
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YeeeHaaa! That's what I'm talkin' about! Outtasite, Chris! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'll have to think up a good response to that one! :shock:
Great work Chris... hope to see some more soon :D
PS: When will it hit the theaters? :P
GaryGB
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Hi All:
The issues related to backups certainly can get bewildering; sometimes I think I understand the best way to set things up, I get busy, and when I come back to it can't remember it all; ...back to square one!
Based on today's discussion though, I'd think I'd like a modified "Francois' Backup Scenario" 8)
1.) 1st backup is immediately copied (mirrored) onto another physically separate drive in one's main computer whenever anything is written to one's main working drive at all times when computer is on.
Pros: FAST restore times if main drive fails; no need to re-install everything and re-configure. Minimal risk of restore from Ghost or other such drive image programs failing due to not being current enough when crash occurs.
Cons: Extra hardware and CPU interrupt required to write to the mirror drive may slow down one's effective machine throughput. Multichannel 3rd party add-in hard drive controller cards used instead of embedded motherboard controllers can help offset this. Besides, your drives can safely be relocated to another machine along with that controller card if your motherboard dies or is upgraded later on!
2.) 2nd backup is copied by streaming over a safe data link (optically isolated or other fast wireless) network or motherboard data/card "bus" extender into another physically separate but otherwise identical computer during "idle" times when computer is turned on; if necessary, computer delays a requested shutdown until data transfer is completed.
Pros: Next fastest restore times if main drive fails; no need to re-install everything and re-configure.
Cons: Extra hardware and CPU interrupt required to write to the communications link into the duplicate machine may slow down one's effective main machine throughput. Some risk of restore from the duplicate disk and Ghost or other such drive image programs failing due to not being current enough when crash occurs on main machine (data transfer may not have been completed yet due to slower I/O to/from a separate machine than that to/from a hard drive located directly on the bus of the main machine itself). If the windows registry is not up to the second, and a data file is not complete and current when a main drive fails, a restore from the incomplete copy disk might prove largely worthless depending on what's missing that didn't yet write to that cloned computer's drive.
3.) Data files are copied to a re-writeable DVD during "idle" times when computer is turned on using a good backup program and "packet writing" software such as Roxio/Sonic Easy CD/DVD Creator (old 'Direct CD' is now called 'Drag-to-Disc') or Nero Burning Rom's equivalent called 'InCD'; such programs make your CD/DVD burner appear as a "drive" that can be simply copied to, as an additional "emulated drive letter" with command syntax, or common explorer "copy" functions (like copy and paste or drag and drop).
Pros: Failsafe backup of ones critical data files (for those who know which ones to select for their backup programs to handle!).
Cons: You'll have to re-install everything and re-do your drive if this is all you have, but at least you'll have your data! Until DVD burners get to huge capacities like 40gb in size, Ghost or equivalent image files burned to sequential discs would only help people with smaller installations of windows and application programs achieve a system restore setpoint. The image file creation and burning process is so slow that one could not hope to even capture a very current system restore setpoint. Probably it would best be used to create an image restore setpoint of a freshly completed Windows install with one's latest motherboard chipset drivers, hardware drivers, and CD/DVD restore software on CD's or DVD's to at least save that hassle!
I'd certainly welcome other suggestions and critiques here, anyone... :D
PS: Hey Pups, does your use of a "hieratical" folder system on your E drive mean that it is the sacred ground on which you place your most precious data, and that one must deal with that drive letter in an attitude of supplication while wearing the appropriate ceremonial garments? (see: http://dict.die.net/hieratical/ ) :wink:
GaryGB
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H Madaz:
Some real good ones there! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm going to remember that one on Acupuncture, and use it the next time I get "needled"! :twisted:
GaryGB
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Hi Francois:
Some good points there; the RAID needs to not only have distributed full copie(s) of the data, it needs to be redundant so that if 1 or 2 drives crash, the original can still be re-created.
I shudder to think of people using their fancy new embedded RAID controllers in a RAID 0+1 (2 drive main+2 drive mirror for speed) or even a RAID 1 (single drive main+single drive mirror) without external backups. They are likely to hit a wall then they need or want to migrate their drives to a different motherboard and controller, and they're dogmeat if they have even one of their mirror drive(s) crash.
No thanks to the motherboard manufacturers' bonus feature of an embedded RAID contoller for me; I'll insist on 3rd party add-in RAID cards I can move with the drives!
A multichannel bus I/O, multidrive capacity RAID card (in theory) should allow faster "interleaved" access times to overcome the CPU interrupts required for the mirror writes in addition to the main drive writes, while also providing truly redundant copies of one's data. Add to that the faster running times while the system rebuilds itself in the background while one works throughout one's day with a minimal slowing of system responsiveness. A techie's dream... until lightning strikes or a bizarre poorly designed and unprotected power supply sends a jolt through the controller cards for the drives themselves and they're toast!
I like your idea of external redundancy; I have seen weird bus connector cards that allow extending ones bus into another computer. But that would still run the risk of a surge getting into that machine as well, so it would have to be optically isolated in the circuitry; I don't know if 3rd party gigahertz ethernet network cards or embedded NIC circuits are opto-isolated either.
Hmmm... broadband RF wireless or faster opto-isolator bus extenders streaming backups to your clone machine anyone? Gotta be a simpler, more cost effective solution to this out there! Something to ponder...! :roll:
GaryGB
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Hi Francois:
Yes, my Father's side of the family is from France, somewhere before the US Civil War, which would be pre-1863 AD, and since my Father's Father's Father (great-great grandfather?) fought against slavery in the US Civil War, I'm guessing he might have moved here with his parents in the early 1800's if he himself was not a first generation ÉmigrÉ. :roll:
Interestingly, they came from somewhere in southwestern France by way of Holland. I don't know how long they were in Holland before they emigrated to the US, but while they were there, they adapted the Family name to blend in. My father said he changed his Family name back to its original spelling when he left home as a young man going off to seek his fortune; that was back in the early 1900's. 8)
But, I guess the good news is that we of French descent are robust and virile; my Father sired me at the age of 63, and passed away at the age of 87, having been born in 1890! :D
GaryGB
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My C-disk of my most important PC crapped out two days ago and I am still trying to pick myself off the floor and getting reorganized.....
sorry for some 'absence......'.
F.
Hi Francois:
As you may recall, I feel your pain :oops: (see: http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=49551 ).
At least this presents you with an opportunity to make this an even better organized machine than the last one; ...I always tell myself that "I'm gonna get organized" when I have to copy data onto a new hard drive! :) Little by little it gets better each time, but still a rather scattered arrangement just like the operating system does with filewrites done in haste; how nice it would be if really smart software could "defragment my information" and not just my file storage clusters! :D
I have been considering the best approach to solving/preventing this kind of scenario for quite some time, having "gone down in flames" numerous times myself, with and without backups! Even with backups, its just too much of a time-consuming, stressful, pain in the a$$ to restore manually. :?
I think I am close to a decision, and it will probably be a complex RAID configuration with a sophisticated 3rd party multichannel controller add-in card for portability between motherboard upgrades (so much for embedded controllers; you're usually screwed if your mobo dies, or you try to move your drives to another controller!). I just can't afford to be down too long, and I don't have the patience to work with a slow recovery mechanism bogging my system down during my day, much less tying me up for days or a week reinstalling and reconfiguring things manually. If the computer is the means for one's livelihood, I figure it should ultimately be the "top dog" in the business budget as soon as one can afford it. :roll:
Understanding the various existing and emerging new types of RAID configurations can be mind-numbing, but I do at least know I will be ending up with a multi-drive array which is redundant, with an auto-swapping spare drive. This should allow fast operations during the day, and if any 1 or even 2 drives fails, the data can be automatically reconstructed by the controller from the distributed data locations on the other drives, and the new drive is written quickly on the fly as I still get work done. :idea:
Promise Technologies and Highpoint seem to be top contenders for aftermarket high-throughput add-in cards to do this with less costly Parallel or (more recently) Serial ATA 7200 RPM IDE drives. I suppose one could use 10,000 RPM IDE or even SCSI drives, but I don't think they have the heat dissipation problems solved, nor do they have the speed and longevity margins over 7200 RPM IDE drives that they should to justify the expense and risk of shorter service life. :wink:
Well, Francois, hopefully you won't have to do data recovery from your old disk, but if you do, I can recommend "R-Studio" from R-Tools Technology Inc. at http://www.r-tt.com/ as before. 8)
"Best wishes for a speedy recovery, and I hope you'll be feeling better soon"! :mrgreen:
Kind Regards,
GaryGB
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'A black hole has no hair!'
Oops, :shock: he probably would have gone down in the 'anals' of history for that one, were it not also for the fact that "Wheeler and Kip Thorne helped to prove that it is not possible for cylindrical, magnetic field lines to implode. This revelation helped to eliminate the idea of a naked singularity". :oops:
That is to say, it appears he covered his a$$ there in more ways than one! :twisted:
I wish I had your ability to use words and humour. My gifts lie elsewhere, but hopefully one day I'll be able to use words like you do.Well Pups, you appear to have your own exceptional mastery of complex subjects, 'verbiage' and humor already; you're well on your way to imparting a sense of curiosity, if not confusion, in people about the meaning of things when you write to be read, just as I do here all too often! :D
Heck, I'm already a target for the verbal transgressions against people's expectations of commonplace behavior I've committed in this forum; at least I'll have some sense of being understood by somebody when they finally start going after you too! :P
Nah... Just kidding, don't pick up my bad habits! "Keep it simple" is a better policy, relatively speaking of course. :roll:
Just make sure you don't get too caught up in figuring things out, because that's when you may experience the "Sound of One Hand Clapping" as Life slaps one in the face, and you realize that the "Tongue Tastes Itself" when bitten as Life strikes one on the chin with a "Love Tap" in the form of a 'reality check'. Not much pomp and circumstance, and no cap and gown when one graduates from the "School of Hard Knocks" either. :wink:
Keep KEWL! 8)
GaryGB
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Hi Guys:
I'll have to visit over there sometime enroute to France to research my family tree. Perhaps we can go out for some good local beers, "Dutch treat" of course! :lol:
Nah, Just kidding... I'd have to treat such nice fellas as yourselves! 8)
GaryGB
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No Pun In-10-Did(*10.)
:shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Hi Madaz:
Ya' had me going to the very end there with the punch line! :roll:
Now that was a really good one, sort of a pun within a pun! :D
An exemplary contribution to the fine tradition of double entendre at EFFC! :P
Looking forward to some more! :twisted:
GaryGB
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It filled Gallileo with mirth
To watch his two rocks fall to Earth.
He gladly proclaimed,
"Their rates are the same,
And quite independent of girth!"
Outstanding Pups! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I "hadron'ed" on and on, but you put in a marvellous showing there as well! 8) Some mighty fine intellectual repartee. :idea:
We may just cure Chris's insomnia if we keep this up! :roll: If he finally condescends to "go the distance", and dignifies one of these outrageous threads with the favor of a comment, we'll know our insidious plan is working... :twisted:
Speaking of Galileo, whose mirth appeared proportional to watching the rate at which his 2 rocks fell to Earth with symmetry independent of their girth (unlike most guys), I bet he'd win a "cojones" contest against Bill Dick's 10 lb. 'salmon' balls! :shock:
Rather ironic though, that Galileo, who contributed to the rejection of blind allegiance to authority (like the Church) or other thinkers (such as Aristotle) in matters of science and to the separation of science from philosophy or religion, reportedly ended up nearly totally blind in his last 6 years of life. Kinda' brings to mind the caveat "don't play with yourself or you'll go blind!" :?
PS:
(Gluons are massless bosons which mediate the strong force between quarks. Gluons attract one another, and may form quarkless bound states called glueballs.)At long last, I understand that a plethora of Bosons is actually what causes head colds (Booger Theory) :!:
Now, if I can just grasp the difference between the states of matter when Chris' term "Bork" applies, and Pups' term "quarkless bound states called glueballs" applies, I'll be a lucky man indeed... and probably less congested too! :wink:
GaryGB
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Psssstttt.. don't tell 'em.. these are Americans...... :wink:
Hi Guys:
Now ya' got me curious! :D
Surely ya' don't mean Limburg, Netherlands as a producer of Limburger cheese ? :?:
Must've been something else (flowers ...or their byproducts?) 8)
<"Limburg is the easternmost province of Flanders (which is one of the three regions of Belgium), and is located west of the Meuse river. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Liège, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp." ..."Not to be confused with, though related to the Netherlands province of Limburg.">
(see: http://en.wikipedia....g_%28Belgium%29 ) :wink:
GaryGB
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That is LimbUrger, you stupid wabbit !! :twisted:
No match for Fritz's superior knowledge of cheeses, and embarrassed that he had skipped school that important day when 'Limburger' cheese was being discussed, the Wabbit enrolled in Fritz's same Seattle Community College "Home Gourmet" class, and learned the correct spelling of the special Emma Field clubhouse bar cheese. There he also learned the horrible truth he had so foolishly missed during his "undergraduate" coursework... :?
"The bacteria used to ferment Limburger cheese and other rind-washed cheeses is Brevibacterium linens; this same bacteria is found on human skin and is partially responsible for human body odor!" :shock:
(see: http://en.wikipedia....imburger_cheese )
He also learned to never pick up a keyboard when tired, and to never trust a search engine's spelling hits to check one's own spelling, as others may be similarly misinformed! :cry:
GaryGB
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:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Excellent Chris!
I like that as a new official nickname alternate to being an Emmaite wandering in the wilderness of flight sim. Sort of a state of elevated status one achieves after mastering the art of "Touch and Go" as it were.
Almost makes one break out in song: "...God and Simmers reconciled....!"
PS: Was that an AMD FX62 "AM2" socket mobo you were referring to in your shopping list above? Sounds awesome, I'd like to hear how it runs when you get it built! I'm building my shopping list over this summer and fall as the computer hardware market stabilizes just before the christmas holiday shopping season starts, so when FSX comes out I'll know what my best price/performance will be when I buy. Please keep us posted!
GaryGB