Comments on: Transfering Your Settings http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/ World of Warcraft Gold, Tips, Tricks, and Discussion Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:55:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Gavin http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2565 Gavin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:49:57 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2565 Oh and, what's up Gavin, I'm Gavin :cool: Oh and, what’s up Gavin, I’m Gavin :cool:

]]> By: Gavin http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2564 Gavin Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:48:55 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2564 Sorry to hear about your lightning experience. What a nightmare. Think for a moment about just how much energy is contained in a lightning strike. Now look at your "surge protecting" power strip. Do you really think it's going to mean beans? Nope. Lightning is nasty stuff. Even the protectors that offer you some kind of insurance deal if lightning fries your machine won't help. That's simply a marketing gimmick based on the low chances of such a thing happening. If you want even a slight chance of surviving a lightning strike to the pole outside your house, you're going to need a real UPS or some such device. Even still, we're talking LIGHTNING here people. :smile: If you live in an area with a lot of lightning, get yourself an external HD, back up to it regularly, then disconnect it from everything when you're done. For the extra paranoid, leave it at your friend's house when you're not using it for an "offsite" backup. It protects against burned down houses and such. If a meteor hits your city... well you probably have bigger concerns than your WoW settings and some photos. :razz: Sorry to hear about your lightning experience. What a nightmare.

Think for a moment about just how much energy is contained in a lightning strike. Now look at your “surge protecting” power strip. Do you really think it’s going to mean beans? Nope. Lightning is nasty stuff. Even the protectors that offer you some kind of insurance deal if lightning fries your machine won’t help. That’s simply a marketing gimmick based on the low chances of such a thing happening. If you want even a slight chance of surviving a lightning strike to the pole outside your house, you’re going to need a real UPS or some such device. Even still, we’re talking LIGHTNING here people. :smile: If you live in an area with a lot of lightning, get yourself an external HD, back up to it regularly, then disconnect it from everything when you’re done. For the extra paranoid, leave it at your friend’s house when you’re not using it for an “offsite” backup. It protects against burned down houses and such. If a meteor hits your city… well you probably have bigger concerns than your WoW settings and some photos. :razz:

]]> By: Matt http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2261 Matt Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:53:05 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2261 Similar incident happened to me, I had a surge protector unfortunately it malfunctioned. An electrical storm rolled in I said, "eh what harm can it do I've got my surge protector and my internet is run through it I'll be fine." Well half an hour into the storm the electrical pole behind my house was struck. The transformer blew and I watched through my clear computer case as my power supply exploded in a blue electrical arc. That storm fried my power supply and most of the low voltage wiring in my computer. All of the led's that made my clear case cool were fried and there was no chance of recovering anything on the hard drive, considering it was melted. So I lost several days worth of designs I had been working on from home and I also lost several hours of tweaking my ui, oh and two days of wow until all my new parts came in for the new system. Similar incident happened to me, I had a surge protector unfortunately it malfunctioned. An electrical storm rolled in I said, “eh what harm can it do I’ve got my surge protector and my internet is run through it I’ll be fine.” Well half an hour into the storm the electrical pole behind my house was struck. The transformer blew and I watched through my clear computer case as my power supply exploded in a blue electrical arc. That storm fried my power supply and most of the low voltage wiring in my computer. All of the led’s that made my clear case cool were fried and there was no chance of recovering anything on the hard drive, considering it was melted. So I lost several days worth of designs I had been working on from home and I also lost several hours of tweaking my ui, oh and two days of wow until all my new parts came in for the new system.

]]> By: Slavrix http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Slavrix Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:53:46 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2236 no thats the porn you download mate no thats the porn you download mate

]]> By: jurandr http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2218 jurandr Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:28:10 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2218 If you don't want to go out and get an expensive external hard drive or thumb drive, you can always use your existing mp3 player ;) I keep my WTF and interface folders on my mp3 player in case I feel like playing at a friend's house. Just be careful where you save it at, so you don't ruin the player If you don’t want to go out and get an expensive external hard drive or thumb drive, you can always use your existing mp3 player ;) I keep my WTF and interface folders on my mp3 player in case I feel like playing at a friend’s house. Just be careful where you save it at, so you don’t ruin the player

]]> By: Spun http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2196 Spun Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:24:10 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2196 lol on the crit....yea ouch on the comp taking such a large hit. My friend's comp got hit as well but he wasn't as lucky and had to send it in for repairs tho looking at his comp youd think it needed to be repaired once it got out of the box go go $500 wal-mart crap windows vista for the lose...and thanks for the tips i'll forward this to my friend and start backing my files up more. lol on the crit….yea ouch on the comp taking such a large hit. My friend’s comp got hit as well but he wasn’t as lucky and had to send it in for repairs tho looking at his comp youd think it needed to be repaired once it got out of the box go go $500 wal-mart crap windows vista for the lose…and thanks for the tips i’ll forward this to my friend and start backing my files up more.

]]> By: Wargkin http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2192 Wargkin Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:10:51 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2192 i currently play on a laptop (i used to go to uni) so the memory is only 100gb...i bought a 500gb freeagent portable hard drive from harvey norman, just plugs straight into your usb and your powerpoint.. was a real lifesaver when i madly installed vista -.- im not smart ok? :P but wherever i go i hav fully updated copies of all my games, files etc comes in handy at lans :) i currently play on a laptop (i used to go to uni) so the memory is only 100gb…i bought a 500gb freeagent portable hard drive from harvey norman, just plugs straight into your usb and your powerpoint.. was a real lifesaver when i madly installed vista -.- im not smart ok? :P
but wherever i go i hav fully updated copies of all my games, files etc
comes in handy at lans :)

]]> By: Isalan http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2181 Isalan Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:42:57 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2181 Lightning crits Lawbringer's Hard Drive for 2345725802. Lawbringer's Hard Drive dies. Lightning crits Lawbringer’s Hard Drive for 2345725802. Lawbringer’s Hard Drive dies.

]]> By: Jack http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2180 Jack Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:59:04 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2180 I pretty much use this same method every time I create a new char, cuts my mod setup time down from about 45 mins to 5. Also, it does suck when the power goes out and kills your rig haha, but a UPS is overkill for a lot of home users, the best protection is a good surge protector on your house and on your powerboard, and regular backups to an external HDD. Anyway, good to see you got it back up and running, I formatted 3-4 times this weekend as well after having a particularly vicious virus write itself into my HDD boot sector hehe. I pretty much use this same method every time I create a new char, cuts my mod setup time down from about 45 mins to 5.

Also, it does suck when the power goes out and kills your rig haha, but a UPS is overkill for a lot of home users, the best protection is a good surge protector on your house and on your powerboard, and regular backups to an external HDD.

Anyway, good to see you got it back up and running, I formatted 3-4 times this weekend as well after having a particularly vicious virus write itself into my HDD boot sector hehe.

]]> By: tatsumasa http://dominateyourserver.com/2008/08/30/transfering-your-settings/comment-page-1/#comment-2179 tatsumasa Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:19:20 +0000 http://dominateyourserver.com/?p=454#comment-2179 my computer seems to be a magnet for viruses cuz i get one about every two to six months. at that time i just do a complete system wipe and restore to get the virus (and god knows what other clutter) off of it. what i suggest is an external hard drive that you simply copy your needed files to every few weeks or so. it takes about a day to get all my stuff back on and installed (including the biggest program ever, wow) but it's worth it to get the computer cleaned out to where i know everything that's on it and how everything is sorted. externals aren't that expensive either :wink: my computer seems to be a magnet for viruses cuz i get one about every two to six months. at that time i just do a complete system wipe and restore to get the virus (and god knows what other clutter) off of it. what i suggest is an external hard drive that you simply copy your needed files to every few weeks or so. it takes about a day to get all my stuff back on and installed (including the biggest program ever, wow) but it’s worth it to get the computer cleaned out to where i know everything that’s on it and how everything is sorted. externals aren’t that expensive either :wink:

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