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Is there an online system where you are that you can log on and rearrange the location to somewhere more convenient?
Did that for the wife when it was going to clash with a holiday and was able to choose a location a couple of miles away instead of the original place that was much farther away.
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( Censored! ... ) This long a wait? 40 mi.? When I got mine ( month ago ) it was 4 mi. and I think the worst possible in the county would have been 10. Now it's drop in at ( list of supermarkets, drug stores ) so 5 places in 2 mi.
We had different luck. ( Pfizer ) I had a sore shoulder and a bit extra tired for a day the first, less than that the second, she got one wiped day the first and 2 miserable days the second.
( But Lou, got the first, pulse jumped to 140. No take second )
Good luck.
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I've been cleaning up my work area but one thing that I never seem to get a handle on is the pile of old hard drives. And I'm guessing that many of our crowd have the same issue.
The thing is that whenever I get a new computer and get rid of an old one I pull the hard drive. The plan of copying out important stuff (really?) before I wipe the drive. That's the plan, but the reality is that I don't quite let go. Did I get everything I need? Why not check one more time later...
and the drive joins the other drives somewhere in a closet.
How many retired hard drives have I accumulated? About a dozen. Occasionally I actually finish and get rid of some. Or more truthfully a small EMP event confined to my closet and storage might actually be a good thing for me and save me some wasted time and space.
Do others in this group have similar behavioral issues like this?
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I've got three sitting on my window sill, and two platters in use as coffee mug mats.
I keep noticing the three and thinking "I must wipe or destroy those" but ... find the time, Griff!
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Is there anything that can be done with old hdds ?
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Redundant, offline backups?
Although I fully realize that, eventually, keeping a 500GB drive around is pointless.
I must have 40+ "spare" hard drives right now. By now I've given up all pretense that I'll ever do anything with the IDE ones. At least I don't have a single SCSI drive anymore...
I still have people who show up every once in a while with a laptop with a dead hard drive. More often than not, I'll just give them one of my spares, which is still larger in capacity than the dead one I'm replacing for free.
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I purchased a Sabrent external drive reader -- it accepts SATA and SSD drives. Essentially, it turns them into stable flash drives. I use my stack of HD for backing up large data sets, such of photos.
I also have a stack of small EIDE drives that I can't read. My current MB doesn't have an EIDE connector and the external caddy doesn't have the interface. I'm afraid to recycle them as I have no idea what's on them. Could be old files backups, including financial records.
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Yes. Eventually, I drill a hole through them and discard in the appropriate bin at the waste recycle joint.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I don't drill a hole through them; I just use DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) at its DoD setting to wipe and zero them before taking them into IT at work for disposal. They have a repurposing program for old hardware (for families who can't afford a computer), so if someone can use my unneeded hardware - why not?
Unless you are storing media on your system drive, a 500GB drive is likely to be more than enough for your needs.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I like the idea that it gets repurposed at least once instead of right to a landfill.
Thanks for that tip!
Maybe that will be my motivation to clean them up!
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Yeah, speaking of which, does anybody have a running computer that can read a SCSI disk? Asking for a friend.
If pigs could fly, just imagine how good their wings would taste!
- Harvey
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Okay, Child 1 is due to go to university in October.
She'll need a laptop for writing that student shizzle that they do. I'm thinking of a minimum spec of 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD, i5 processor and 14" screen. And light.
She's reading History & French so doesn't need a dev machine and doesn't game or anything. Watches too much foreign art films though.
So does that spec sound okay?
Recommendations? NOT Dell, they're a pile of elephant and no one will ever persuade me differently.
[OT: Yea, fine thanks. Double dosed of 5G today and Bill says hi!]
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wote: Watches too much foreign art films though.
Needs intervention more than a laptop. 
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Sadly she's a linguist - like the ma - and watches a lot of French, Hungarian and Korean films.
Can't stop that, but she claims it's all art...
veni bibi saltavi
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Korean and Hungarian?! Wow, I'm impressed.
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She also speaks a bit of German.
Hungarian and English are her home languages - wifely and I - she learnt French & German at school - top grades obvs - and is self taught in Korean for the fun of it!
veni bibi saltavi
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Je trouve que c'est très bien.
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You what? She's the nutter wot speaks forn, not me!
veni bibi saltavi
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I kinda like my dell...
Ask her what she thinks she needs. Personally, I'd want a larger screen, but I'm old and blind.
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She is as tech savvy as a fish, so I'll have to best guess. I have a 15" and she thinks it's a bit too big.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I have a 15" and she thinks it's a bit too big.
Oooh Errrr!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I have a 15" and she thinks it's a bit too big.
Heh.
The Phone Generation(tm), obviously.
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What does the University suggest for incoming students? If the most prevalent laptops among the professors are fruit, you might want to have her join the dark side. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Unless it's socketed which most thin and light laptops don't do anymore, I'd probably go with 16GB of ram. Maybe she'll never need it; but if she does buying it now will save a buying a new laptop in 2 or 3 years.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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+1 for the 16GB of RAM.
8GB is fine if you boot up Windows 10 and leave it running and not do anything all day, but given how memory-hungry browsers are nowadays, 16GB buys you a little more future-proofing.
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