Evening Reading: I Don't Care About 3D

by Brian Leahy, Mar 24, 2010 12:00am PDT

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So, Nintendo revealed the 3DS early this morning in Japan and I could not be less excited. Not only do I care absolutely zero about 3D-gaming (about as much as I care about 3D-movies), I can't imagine it working on a handheld.

Maybe Nintendo has a big surprise up its sleeve, but I think we could be looking at the next Virtual Boy here. Either way, we'll know more at E3.

You know what I am excited about? LOST!

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Formatting hard drive

Checklist of things to backup:
* Firefox bookmarks
* What else?

Mar 23, 2010 5:14pm PDT

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Formatting hard drive Checklist of things to backup: * Firefox bookmarks * What else? : kill9
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  User directory? In case there's anything in there you need. Also game saves : Mr. Goodwrench
  - I always forget this. Also fonts. : thekidd
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  *backup porn : HisKillSkill
  - On a separate drive thankfully : kill9
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  Any idea where uTorrent saves it's current state? I have files going to a drive that won't be formatted,... : kill9
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    check %APPDATA% : _jon
    - Yep that's it, thanks : kill9
  - For Windows 7, it'll be in C:\ProgramData which is hidden. : Matt Burris
- deauthorize itunes : silent77
- porn downloads. : zigzag
- ninite.com for when you need to install shit again. : SigENeaT
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  do you use offline e-mail? back up mailbox files. : eisencc
  - Nope! gmail thankfully, but that is a good one : kill9
- I completely and utterly forgot my pictures from my last W7 RC build on my laptop when I installed W7 fin... : Sailor of Fortune
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  Have all your drivers on a thumbdrive ready to install. Motherboard Video Card Sound Card DVD Drive... : sreyes22
  - windows 7 is really nice you know.. : HisKillSkill
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    don't forget your joypad and cakewalk enabled MIDI keyboard drivers too! : Klebold
    - Also your wide scsi external CD-ROM changer drivers. : hussdelrio
- Pictures! : Amneziakk
- All your media. : pop_secret
- steam account : hrdwregk
- just image it to an external drive. that way you're sure to not lose anything. : epit
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  Documents folder! Especially if you have a Bioware game. Thanks Bioware, for throwing your 5 gigs of DL... : cetra00
  - this has been commonplace for the last 5 years at least. : redfive
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    That's the best fucking place to put game saves on yuor local machine. That way you grab your documents f... : sigpro
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      I set my mydocs folder to be my dropbox folder so I never need to worry about backing it up manually. : Prozium
      
      That works too. I just hate trying to find all the (non steam based) places that games save stuff if it's... : sigpro
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      Saved games, sure. DLC? No. : cetra00
      
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      Would you rather it went to program files\ea\bioware\dragon age and you forget to back it up? : sigpro
      
      I would rather they would allow me to download it again if needed and not shit up my SSD with a few gigs ... : cetra00
      
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      can you only download the DLC once or something?
      
      Mar 23, 2010 6:04pm PDT
      
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      can you only download the DLC once or something? : kill9
      
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      I'd rather not redownload 5GB of data after I reformatted if I didn't need to. : sigpro
      
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      you're going to be downloading the full game already : RikiTiki2
      
      why do you say that? Steam is easily backed up or he could have bought the game at retail so he has a dvd... : sigpro
      
      yes, because i have games on a different drive, and c:\ is ONLY system drive so 5 gigs of dlc would be sh... : papaskot
- Make sure you deactivate all games to get your install back, and deactivate itunes if you use that as wel... : menar003
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  /steamapps/ folder My Documents : kallanta
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    You can just redownload Steam stuff. : CRasterImage
    - Transferring the whole steamapps folder to a clean format means you don't have to redownload games you pr... : The Grolar Bear
    - and it's better to download 20gb+ of stuff (in my case) rather than just backup a folder? : moshman
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  your My Documents folder : RikiTiki2
  - Better to backup the whole Users (or Documents and Settings) folder. : GreatGooglyMoogly
- Entire copy of your Windows profile (make a new account, re-boot - login to account, copy profile) - you ... : abrasion
- Wallpapers and any other image collections. : Sapiens
- weird stuff like word / excel quick access toolbar icons, however the only way is to take a screenshot I ... : gakera
- Fonts folder! : jbury

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