Video posted by Dave Haynie

[Franko]

As that video was from 2002, I wonder what quotes he would use now from the divide Amiga Community if he were too make a new one...

Reckon it would look like an epside from The World At War just without the tanks & aircraft...

(probably most if it would be taken up with quotes about the iPad and stuff like Linuk & Ubuntu... )

[Franko]

I have been back for a couple of years now, brought on mainly by nostalgia for the Amiga and I love playing with my machines but i STILL see much of the same old retoric again and again now many years later.  Instead of users helping users enjoy and understand our 'classic' hardware, so much time is wasted with just hateful arguing and 'what ifs'.  Its like a bad divorce where the parties involved just never move on.... sad. Sheesh, we lost can't we just move on.... that will never happen.

Couldn't agree with you more, until last summer when I finally went on the net I was blissfully unaware that certain so called Amiga users spent most of their time on these forums talking about everything else other than the Amiga...

I've tried to inject a bit of humour into things especially when it's got nothing to do with the Amiga but I've noticed more & more that certain folk round here a just a bunch of humourless greetin faced gits who seem to like nothing better than to moan and gripe about my posts cos it's dumbing down their claptrap about Apple & the like...

Sad thing is most of these moaning faced farts don't have anything useful or even interesting to say whether their posts are Amiga or non Amiga related...

Reckon myself they're just frustrated sad little turds, who no-one in the real world will listen to so they come here to spout their venom in the sad belief that the rest of us actually care or even agree with them...

To be honest I do like the fact that they are so dumb as to keep complaining about my posts and not using the ignore feature here that it's kinda became a new hobby for me winding the morons up and watching them constantly post complaints, give me a good laugh that does...

Anywhoo... just to inject a bit of irony here, anyone know how long an HD in an iMac should last, mines is only about 7 months old and it's failing with some message about "SMART failure occurring"... ruddy poxy piece of crApple junk... :angry:

PS:Gonna put together my own video for youtube from certain post's here and title it "Whats The Amiga Got To Do With An Amiga Forum"... just need a nice wee theme tune to go along with it... any suggestions...

[Franko]

If your drive is registering a SMART failure, realistically it's time to replace it whilst it's still operable so as to prevent data loss. It's a warning feature that I would have killed for a couple of times with Amigas over the years... Live and learn I guess.

Just spent all afternoon backing it up (500GB) and ordered a new one, the ruddy thing was bought brand new only 7 months ago to go with the iMac but to be honest I think I should have sent it back as it's been pretty flakey since I got it...

(Gawd... another day to look forward to re-installing everything... )

[Franko]

I'd take it back then. There is no way in hell that is right.



Is there no equivalent of Norton Ghost for MacOS?

I bought it online from CPC/Farnell (it was only cost me £37.49) but as they are really only "trade" suppliers when a customer like me returns something you have to fill out upteen forms and wait about two weeks for them to check it...

I've just looked at the invoice for it and I did return it to them after the first week (as it kept losing all it's data) but they returned it saying they had checked it and it was fine...

Ah well, it was only about £40 so it's really not worth the hassle again, not sure what Norton Ghost is, the only way I know how to install a Mac is using the original install DVDs then going through the tedious process of uploading all the updates over and over till you get back to OSX 10.5.8 and then reinstalling all the other apps I've bought... gonna be a long long day (again)...

[Franko]

@ the_leander

Thanks for that link, much appreciated...

Looks a lot quicker than going through the whole install/update procedure once again...

Cheers

Franko

@ Sandman

I tried making a backup with "Time Machine" but upon checking the back up there were almost 30,000 files missing compared to the amount of files on the original HD/Partition...

Seems mostly a lot of the actual OSX files are not created in the backup with "Time Machine" and I can't figure out how to get it to back up everything (especially the OS X files)...

I'll give the_leanders tip a try and see how that goes, should get the new HD tomorrow so it's gonna be a long day no matter what, just opening up the monitors case on this thing to replace the HD is murder not to mention trying to remove the LCD panel without damaging it... fun and games eh...

[Franko]

Franko, you ever come down to the West Country I wanna buy you a drink! :pint:

Just getting me wellies on now, what time times the next bus...