The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) VIII

kenchan

so i thinks my mbp is done transferring files to my lenovo.... took no less than 9hrs.

good thing my lenovo has a dim lcd button kinda like the sleepy corner on the mac's.

dAvenue

Moving terabytes

I finally discovered what caused my iMac to randomly freeze. And it was Norton Apparently, the idle-scan feature sucked up the last bit of available resources if another resource intensive process was active such as Time Machine . I decided to disable idle-scanning because backups are much more important to me.

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JARblue

Norton is a ridiculous resource hog... I get rid of it and install AVG free in lieu of Norton on any machine I encounter.

What's sad is I run multiple machines at home and at the office, and the ones that are the completely stable 100% of the time are the two with NO anti-virus protection at all. I use an enterprise level hardware firewall that does just fine. I keep AV protection on a few machines just in case because they contain critical data.

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dAvenue

Yeah, Norton has been that way for as long as I can remember. But I decided to give it a try because of the 360 package that includes firewall protection and there wasn't really a competitor out there [at least that I could find] that offered the same level of protection. My house is also cloaked in a personal VPN for added security We can't ever be too safe in the information age.

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kenchan

.... been trying to post but getting blocked due to excessive traffic by mr.jar vs EW.

JARblue

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eastwest2300

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kenchan

Haboob

I'm distracted by Amazon. Looking at stuff I don't need.

Don't know that I'm going to buy anything, but doesn't hurt to look...

dAvenue

#stripclub

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Haboob

Now that's a waste of money.

eastwest2300

I couldnt agree more...

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kenchan

im just moving a couple hundred gigabytes.

i did a clone of a 350gb HD onto my 500gb... inorder to cone it back to the 350gb to backup my important files (about 150gb of virtual instrument software files), i need to rid the gopro footage in that 500gb HD to get it smaller than 350gb. so i thinks...


yah, virtual window shopping at amazon is fun. you have an amazon visa card? you can accumulate points using it at other stores too and use it towards a future purchase.

Haboob

Nope, no Amazon visa.

I only have one CC. Well, technically two, but I opened one to get 0% when I bought my iPhone 5 and it's almost paid off (Dec) and I will cancel it.

I need to cancel my one with BofA and get one that will reward me or something. I don't use it much at all, but if there are rewards, I may use it more.

kenchan

yah, definitely look into getting cards that give you points. i use a united milage card and i have enough to go to japan first class, or 4 of us in business. they also have a gift catalog you can buy stuff from using your points. i can also book hotels etc.

then the amazon card, i just use it and use the points to make free purchases. like i have a new track ball coming to me this week along with a few balls for my kids. i spent $0.