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I guess I should formally declare you the winner then. Care to give the solution for completeness?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Damnit! I was trying to give the others a chance! (And maybe a little clue...)
I cannot crack these FUN CODES(8)
Anagram: FUNCODES == CONFUSED
And ok, I'm up tomorrow...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just for that, you may well win tomorrow...it's in the rules[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm totally "fun codes" on this.
1. Where is the definition?
2. How is this a definition for an adjective.
3. "These" would hint at a noun and in plural even!
This looks like there are now no rules at all for the construction of a CCC.
Please explain!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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It's a bit of fun.
I don't really understand what I'm doing.
People worked out the answer.
F*** it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Closest I could get was "I cannot crack" being the "confused" bit, "these" indicating anagram, and "FUN CODES" being the words to anagrammatize. But, I got the anagram straight away and post-rationalised the beginning so that bit was pretty much a guess.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I cannot crack these fun codes, the fun codes are crossword clues, the whole thing means confused.
Crack these means what follows is an anagram.
I just made all that up, but it makes sense to me. If it's not good enough because of some struck laws of clue setting I didn't adhere to then I'm more than happy to not bother anymore.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Hey! Relax! We got it didn't we? And I wasn't the only one...
SOme of DD's were a lot less understandable, even with his explanation.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Legless.
injured.
maimed.
These are not answers to the CCC, but just guesses on how you will leave Alton Towers.
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But they pay well if they break you.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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What are the crowds like? A mate of mine went a couple of weeks ago & got a refund on his priority ride tickets as it was so quiet he didn't need them.
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No queues as yet.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yeah, everybody's at the air shows!
What? Too soon?
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I have narrowed down my choices (not everything available here in northern Thailand) to this piece of kit.
But, before I let fly the simoleons, I'd appreciate knowing your experiences with, and/or opinions of, this gear, and its integration/whatever with Acronis.
thanks ! Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Link to specs???
Personally, I need a 20 Tb disk for my DVD-backups. But I'm not made of money, so fat chance I can find something like that...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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Specs on WD's site available as a PDF, but the NewEgg reviews will tell you plenty without a download: [^].
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I have a couple of these: Seagate USB3 4tb[^] which are about the same price as the WD, and which I use with AOMEI.
I've had the Seagate USB drives for a few years, and not had a problem - even on ones which have been dropped off a desk I don't have bad sectors, and they are pretty reasonable speed wise.
And AOMEI (the free version) backs up my 1TB PC HDD to about 350GB, which given it's about 2/3rds full is good enough for me.
I can't see why either should be unavailable via the internet where you live!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks, Griff, I made a note about AOMEI previously, and will carefull consider using that instead of Acronis.
The WD MyBook is available mail-order from the site attempting to become the NewEgg of Thailand, but it was cheaper to buy it direct from a local shop ... and their price was about US $20 cheaper than NewEgg's current price. However, I would have paid up to 10% more to buy locally because ... well, it's a culture in which personal relationships over time really do matter, and, said local shop has done some big favors for me, and serve the expat community here very, very well.
My experience, and that of many others living here in Thailand, is that SeaGate drives, on average, fail with much greater frequency than WD. Such "personal heuristics," are, of course, always suspect
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I'm with OG AOMEI is free and the newer versions of Acronis, 2013-2015 are crap don't know about the newest version. As far as drives I've not had problems with WD or Seagate and I've used them both.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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I've got 3TB externals, both Seagate and WD MyBooks - they are unplugged most of the time, only on for transferring files from primaries to archive one, which propagates to the others. When archiving is done, all get powered down.
So 2 years in, I've had a Seagate fail, but no WD drive failures, and I replaced the failed Seagate with a WD MyBook drive.
Less than 200 hours of run time over two years and the Seagate simply wouldn't spin up one day.
Don't use the proprietary software on them; pick your own encryption scheme that can work from any source/device is my suggestion.
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I've stopped buying Seagate drives about a decade ago; all Seagate drives I've purchased are dead. I was given a "dead" PC a year or two ago; even though the machine itself was fine, both of its drives (both Seagates) were FUBARed. One was still under warranty, so even though I wasn't the original owner, I got that one replaced - it's sitting unused in a box.
I wouldn't trust a Seagate these days even as an offline backup drive.
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I have six of them. One in my NAS, one in my VM host, then a backup of each, sitting next to those machines, and another of each as offsite backups. In other words, I took two out of their enclosures and they run 24/7, and the other four only get to run a few hours each week every other month just to sync them (my backup scheme amounts to robocopy and a batch file).
I used to swear by Acronis to do full-drive backups, but the last time I tried their "newer" versions (back in 2012-13 or so) I found their software to be rather invasive - I don't need it integrated into the OS, I just wanted something I could fire up as needed. Full-drive backups aren't my thing anymore, but YMMV. I just ignore Acronis these days - you don't have to use it.
I didn't buy them all at the same time; two of the drives (bought as a pair) are actually from HGST; the other four are WD Green drives. Despite what people say about them (spinning down to save power?), I haven't had any issue with them. I've never heard them either spin down or back up.
I do have one word of warning: If you intend to use something like TrueCrypt to encrypt a drive in one of these enclosures (as I do for my backup drives), then you won't be able to take the drive out of the enclosure and mount it directly in a PC - the enclosure itself has some circuitry that assigns the drive a different ID, so if you take it out, TrueCrypt will see something's different and refuse to mount it. You can always reformat it and use it as a brand new drive - you just won't be able to get data that was encrypted with TrueCrypt while the drive was in the enclosure. I can live with that constraint.
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Thanks, Dandy,dandy72 wrote: I took two out of their enclosures And you took them out of the enclosures because ? ... then what was the point of buying the drive in an enclosure ?
I appreciate your comments on Acronis and TrueCrypt; wasn't planning to use either.
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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