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Re: Computer woes and character delays
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Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:32:26 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Shiri Dori writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanna apologize. I had about 100 or more pictures of some totally awesome
> characters in my grasp, and I let them slip.
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> Let me explain. For the past year or so, Chris Maddison has been making
> minifigs, including some modified figs, and has had amassed quite the
> awesome collection (IMHO). But he doesn't have a digital camera, and
> attempts to take pictures with a normal camera didn't turn out well.
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> This February I went to Chris's house and brought my digicam. We took tons
> of pictures - for his story, you may recall - and wanted to take more, but
> my battery ran out (ugh)! We were upset at the time, but figured "no
> problem, we'll see each other again in April, so we'll take more pictures then".
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> April came to Boston, and Chris came to Boston, his minifigs also came to
> Boston. My camera was working nonstop, we were working nonstop. We created
> backdrop settings, took photos of figs and more figs, and more figs... and
> more figs. And some more. And... you get the picture. I lost count of how
> many times we put pics on my computer in order to reuse the disk, and how
> many times we needed to recharge the battery. Seriously. That many. It was
> probably somewhere between 100 and 150 pics. Maybe more.
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> On Thursday morning, we *finally* finished. Chris posted about his space
> stuff (ick!) but he wanted to keep the castle pictures offline until he has
> all his bios written out. We planned that, when Chris gets home, I'd ICQ him
> the pictures.
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> BUT... last night, right after Chris called me to say he got home safely, my
> computer - a five-year-old piece of junk, just barely running - shot some
> sparks out of it, made a loud noise, smoked up, started whirring (it was
> off!) and then died. Now it won't turn on at all, it's totally dead.
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> So there go five years' worth of stuff, including last copies of my mom's
> programs, all my ICQ history, lots of pictures and movies, and most
> annoyingly... all those pictures that we just took. Ugh! I mean, UGH... how
> annoying. And how frustrating...
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> So, guys, I'm sorry, but it's gonna be a while before you see them all... I
> don't know when, my mom is going to try and salvage the computer, and Chris
> might borrow a digicam from a friend. Otherwise though, it might be July til
> we retake the pictures...
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> So, I apologize for my computer burning up. Now, I need to get back to
> downloading all my programs...
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> -Shiri
Shiri...
The same thing has happened to me before... sounds like the power supply in
the computer.... I doubt if the HD is gone.... you might be able to take the
HD to your local computer tech and they prob will be able to transfer the
lot over to CD's.... so does this mean you wont be on ICQ for a while?
Kev...: )
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| (...) If Mr. Bunny is correct, that's not a big repair -- maybe $20-30 USD if you are able to do it yourself or have a friend that can do it for you. Even if the system is fried, you should see what you can salvage: RAM, an extra CD-ROM player (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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| Hi everyone, I wanna apologize. I had about 100 or more pictures of some totally awesome characters in my grasp, and I let them slip. Let me explain. For the past year or so, Chris Maddison has been making minifigs, including some modified figs, and (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)
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