NewtSoup
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Decided on the clean install route. It's only save games I want to really recover and seeing as I wanted a new DE I got ubuntu on first. then gnome and now I'll start reinstalling sofware The issue with the main drive is not surface errors but a refusal to spin up. If I can get it to spin up I'll be able to get my save games off. Then the drive gets a big black marker on it saying "do not use". Sadly the drive is lost along with Babylon K, Minmus Rura Penthe outpost, Kerbin Orbital and all my Kerbal training If I plug the drive in - it spins up - chatters a bit and then spins down.. If I try and boot with the drive installed my system just hangs and won't start at all. Have to start over Kompletely. -
Took me about half an hour to disassemble my PC and work out how to remount drives in best order. Hover installation of the OS from USB took 4 minutes. FOUR minutes. That included live updates!. Then it did one more update, one restart which took all of 30 seconds. Done!. Oh I love Linux. Now I have the Gnome Desktop installed too Wen't beyond Gnome-Shell as I am planning on uninstalling Unity if that's possible ( unless that's unadvisable in ubuntu 16.04 ) Obviously it's going to take me a few more hours to get all my software reinstalled but that would be the same in Windows. Well, in windows I'd still be waiting on updates and restarts #cycnicalKrakenLover
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I am hoping that the drive with my OS on it can be coaxed back into life sufficient that I can simply mirror it onto the new drive. New SSD has arrived!. Wish me luck. I'm going in!
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I do to.. my biggest bug bear with Java was that it had no option to compile to native code. And back in 1999 when I was in Uni the so called "portability" was complete crap too. Not once did I have compiled code run on anything other than the system I complied it on I always had to recompile for Window / Redhat / Solaris whichever I was using at the time.. The uni was convinced that Java was the "next big thing" but then went back to teaching C++ after my intake. The reason I don't work in the field is - I became a lone parent in my final year with no family to help me out and I had a breakdown and never graduated. Can't get more student loan to finish my degree so I'm now working on being an actor ( but maybe I can write a mobile phone game in java that goes viral ) I'm a LOT older than I look, I come from a very young looking family - I'm actually 47
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I have quite a few games. May favourite genre is open world. So, elder scroll series and fallouts. Though i like blades of the emperor too, a real time stealth strategy. Shadows of Mordor is also fun but I need a better controller than the steam controller - it is awful. I need to reignite my programming passion and relearn java and get to grips with c++ and mono
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True for me too. Most of the games I want to play have native linux clients. Of those that don't, only two won't work in Wine - and recently I found out how to get Fallout 4 working in Wine - though I need to build it from scratch with a few patches in place ( wine that is not fallout 4)
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I'm very happy to learn how the entire OS is glued together over time, and indeed I am doing, but I want an out of the box solution with full desktop environment :). I'll grow into a full on junkie over time for the moment though I'm just going back to what I know but have a go at replacing Unity with Gnome as I said above.
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Yeah the m2 boards are quite a bit longer and my mobo won't take them but it will take the longer of the mSata, however I erred on the side of caution and just went with the reliable Samsung Evo :). As for OS - Yep it's going to be Ubuntu 16.04 LTS again but I may have a go at replacing unity with Gnome 3 while I have a clean install an nothing to lose except time.
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Still updating windows!
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Well, I just had a quick play with the Ubuntu 18.04 live and I think that is going to go on my new hard drive. I previously considered Steam OS but it just seems like a whole load of trouble unless you want a "console" that can only play Steam Games. Going to have a look at OK.. so windows is doing MORE updates and now it's forcing a distribution update on me even though I just told it "not now" and I can't stop it. This isn't going to be a fun evening.
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So you did, I'm looking at it and considering it. I'm also creating an ubuntu 18.04 live media on a USB stick. I'll have a play with that this evening. I've played with Raspbian too but I don't think I want it as my main OS for gaming. I just want reliable and works with the minimum of fuss and to not be Win 10. Which has taken a monumental 3 hours to settle down after boot! ( updates and microsoft doing microsoft stuff ) 3 hours of it downloading random junk, doing updates I didn't ask for and thrashing my poor little SSD to death. Nope it's still at it.
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Just ordered a Samsung 500 GB 860 EVO Sata III 64L V NAND from Amazon. Can't afford it but there we go. Wondered about going the mSata route but it's an unknown to me so I'll stick with what I know So now, what distro do I install? I'm so used to Debian based, I know a lot of people don't like the Debian based stuff but it does just work! I find it reliable and well supported for gaming. So I think Ubuntu 16.04 will go back on. However if anyone has some neat ideas then do let me know!
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Aaand I'm back in Windows I can't believe both my main drives have failed in the same week. Lost my media collection, lost my save games, everything will have to be installed again on a new drive I just hope the HD103 can be spun up one more time to rescue my KSP saves and the documents folders So now I'm on Windows 10 on a 256gb SSD. I guess I'll be playing Elite Dangerous for a bit. In a year, after windows has finished insisting on updating absolutely barking everything. <insert "Girl from Ipanema" here>
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I've no plan on buying a new mainboard. Mine is fine, my processor is fine. The only thing I may do is upgrade the graphics card and overclock the CPU, 3570K - I've had it run happily on the current cooler @ 4.0 ghz. The cooler is an arctic freezer pro 7 the best and quietest air cooler at the time. It is quite big though.
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My MB is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-UDH3 1.1 (you can't buy these any more, I looked ) The mSata port is designed to hold the card at both ends and is about 5cm long so it would actually fit one of these Samsung 850 Evo 500gb https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-mSATA-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B078WQKL4X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1521418688&sr=8-2&keywords=mSata+500gb I may consider getting one. The port sits right beside the processor socket and doesn't foul the memory slots. However the cooler for the processor does so I can't use all four slots - I could possibly fit the cooler back to front to open up those slots but I have 16gb ram so that's enough for the time being.
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I am an actor, just not well known yet. Done some film extra work been in a few stage plays, done work for hospitals for doctor training ( PACE exams ). Hopefully I won't end up in prison. Oh yes, my motherboard has a slot for one of these - mSata - they start at round £125 GBP these days for 500gb (~$170USD ) Some people say I wont make it as an actor and I'm too old but I will not be discouraged! I keep in mind that Morgan Freeman didn't get his big break until he was 55.. which gives me 8 years to hone my craft! It's doable!
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Not sure what you mean here.
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That's why I put my picture up in place of Valentina. Subtle hint. Didn't work.
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Monkey Feathers is from Avatar: The Last Airbender Possibly a topic for a different thread but I've often thought about expletives, how they are used and what they mean. I feel that they only have the meaning we give to them. Which is why I never call anyone "noob", newbie yes. But "noob" never because it's used in such a derogatory fashion in online gaming I find it exceptionally rude and right up there with the vernacular it's replacing.
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Reassuring - thank you. I've no idea how it works.
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Yes, me too. I'm just concerned that at some point it may cease to work. Then again it may work indefinitely but just give out more and more inaccurate information as game data changes for parts.
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Yeah I use KER a lot so I'm hoping that it will get an update soon. Otherwise I will switch to MJ if it has similar functionality to KER, I've nothing against MJ of course, I just don't need the pilot abilities so I stuck with KER for the various information and design engineer. What's important to me though is if KER does fall by the wayside I'll need to know how to move the KER modules from my save files so that I don't lose vessels / missions in progress.
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Re-Reading the data: Error 17 did not occur 2 years ago. It occurred today and the drive has had a total power on time of 2 years and 22 days.. roughly. The SMART stats indicate that the drive is basically in good health. The spin up time is occasionally too slow. There are no bad sectors and only 1 count of bad sector pending where smart thinks there might be an error. to reduce the chance of a spin up fail i'm simply not going to restart it until such time as I get a replacement main drive, unless I absolutely have to.
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Ahh the insert bootable media was occuring before I removed the 3TB making the computer difficult to restart. Computer was easier to restart after removing said 3TB drive. The boot order is USB / Card Reader Samsung 1GB 256gb SSD and the 3TB was disabled as a boot device as the computer was never to boot from it.
