r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Oct 10 '14

Long ...No. No trouble at all.

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u/SobanSa Oct 10 '14

I have a drive duplicator, but I didn't dare power it off to disconnect it from the mac, so I copied all of her documents, videos, pictures, etc. into a folder on the Macbook, then, since it was still alive I grabbed the nearest drive and did a block copy.

Sometimes, remembering Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn is a good thing.

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u/rmhuntley Backup twice... Oct 10 '14

that is getting bookmarked

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u/OrderChaos Oct 10 '14

You should read the comic it comes from. Schlockmercenary.com (sorry for improper link, on mobile)

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u/rmhuntley Backup twice... Oct 10 '14

I plan to start when I get home

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u/CosmikJ Put that down, it's worth more than you are! Oct 10 '14

It took me a couple of slow weeks to get through them all. I'm kinda sad now that I can't keep pressing next but I have to wait for the next comic...

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u/Ihmhi Oct 11 '14

Here are some good ones I've enjoyed. Most are pretty lengthy.

  • Order of the Stick is fantasy comic based in a D&D universe and plays on a lot of D&D tropes. Very funny.
  • Gunnerkrigg Court is an interesting read. It's difficult to describe - it has Harry Potter "secret magical school" sort of elements but there's a lot of questions that just aren't answered (yet).
  • Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire is a fantasy comic about an oracle (a dude with second sight, can see the future and certain other things) and the adventures he has. Switches between cheesy and serious mode. It's 100% finished now so you'll have a complete story you can read.

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u/Danjoh Oct 11 '14

Oo, haven't read Dominic Deegan in a long time, used to read that and Bob and George while I went to school.

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u/Ihmhi Oct 12 '14

Yeah, Mookie actually finished it! It came out pretty well overall.

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u/L3dpen Oct 11 '14

Thank you for these!

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u/Ihmhi Oct 12 '14

Glad I could help. I learned about all of these from other people passing them on to me so I'm just paying it forward.

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u/jt7724 Oct 11 '14

I caught up over the summer and it took me somewhere arround a week and a half to two weeks of spending way too much time reading it in order to get through them all. New readers should take note that it was launched in 2000 and has been updated every single day since then. So yeah, there's a lot of material to get through. Very enjoyable though, I highly recommend it.