Who has an extensive collection of PNDs?


FaeMinx

FaeMinx

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This morning... I lost all the data on my primary 32GB SD Card. :(


I know... I'm a fool for not backing up and I feel terrible.


I've managed to recover most of the data, including my appdata folder.


However - the other 'most vital' folder - my 'menu' folder that contained ALL my PNDs that has taken me months to download at great expense (it costs me about R300 per Gig) has vanished completely! I'm trying to do a deep scan of the card now... but if that doesn't work..


Is there any kind soul out there that has a reasonably up to date collection of the majority of PNDs available - especially the larger ones (for me and my crummy data plan anything over 20mb is a large file)... that is willing to burn them to a few DVDs and post them to me?


I will of course pay for the postage, discs, and your time & service.


I would be extremely extremely grateful. :(


This is a huge tragedy for me...


I'm on my knees. Please help somebody! :(
 
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FaeMinx said:
This morning... I lost all the data on my primary 32GB SD Card. :(


I know... I'm a fool for not backing up and I feel terrible.


I've managed to recover most of the data, including my appdata folder.


However - the other 'most vital' folder - my 'menu' folder that contained ALL my PNDs that has taken me months to download at great expense (it costs me about R300 per Gig) has vanished completely! I'm trying to do a deep scan of the card now... but if that doesn't work..


Is there any kind soul out there that has a reasonably up to date collection of the majority of PNDs available - especially the larger ones (for me and my crummy data plan anything over 20mb is a large file)... that is willing to burn them to a few DVDs and post them to me?


I will of course pay for the postage, discs, and your time & service.


I would be extremely extremely grateful. :(


This is a huge tragedy for me...


I'm on my knees. Please help somebody! :(
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Ew. Ew ew ew. You have to pay per gigabyte for internet service?


I'd be willing to help you out; I have unlimited Internet service, though it would have been more convenient had you done this when I was still at the Institute... Old-school dial-up is to cable as cable is to the Institute's fucking pipe.


I'll need a few things:

  • a list of the PND's you want... "all of them" isn't going to help
  • the ruleset on shipping things to the jungle
  • the money to send things to the jungle (if it's overly expensive)


I can PM you my e-mail address if you'd like to discuss it further.


Remember, it could be worse. It could be much, much worse. So for now, be happy! :)
 
That's really great of you! I'll start making a list tonight - I'll probably have it ready tomorrow evening (I have to work tomorrow). A PM with your email would be good. :)


Thank you so much! Now there's a light at the end of the tunnel. :D
 
FaeMinx said:
That's really great of you! I'll start making a list tonight - I'll probably have it ready tomorrow evening (I have to work tomorrow). A PM with your email would be good. :)


Thank you so much! Now there's a light at the end of the tunnel. :D
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PM sent.


Do you only have to pay per gigabyte for "large downloads?"


Here is an idea I just had if that is true-- I could put up a script on my VPS which runs a wget, splits the resultant file up into 10 MiB increments, and outputs a list of wget commands and and un-splitting command for you to run on your end.


Picture the Saturday morning cartoons where our tragic hero encounters a tennis racket and is invariably split into tens of cube-shaped pieces, only to snap back together on the other side.
 
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Oh wow. Hard to forget how relatively cheap internet is here these days. I've been annoyed that we don't have any fiber connection in my village as some friends of mine have a cheap 100/100 connection.


When I read about your data-loss in the other thread, my first thought was "Who cares about losing their PNDs?, losing your appdata is way worse". Now I understand.


Good luck on getting your data back. I know the pain, several years ago (it was on my first pentium computer of 200 Mhz) I lost about 25 GB data (back then that was a LOT of data, these days it's a download of a couple of hours).
 
FaeMinx said:
[...] ALL my PNDs that has taken me months to download at great expense (it costs me about R300 per Gig)
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And I already wondered whats so bad about losing random PNDs which can be re-downloaded at any time.


Well, if everything else fails, you can send me your list and I'll send you a DVD. Only conditions: I'll only send you PNDs that do not have a license which disallows me to send them to you. Oh, and you start making regular backups. ;)
 
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Christoph.Krn said:
Well, if everything else fails, you can send me your list and I'll send you a DVD. Only conditions: I'll only send you PNDs that have a license which allows me to send them to you, and you start making regular backups. ;)
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Thank you so much! I'll have my list ready tomorrow evening. My first deep scan has failed to reveal my 'menu' folder... Going to try another program.


Of course, I don't expect anyone to send me anything illegally! :blink:


'Back it up' is going to become my mantra... believe me!
 
Caine said:
Oh wow. Hard to forget how relatively cheap internet is here these days. I've been annoyed that we don't have any fiber connection in my village as some friends of mine have a cheap 100/100 connection.


When I read about your data-loss in the other thread, my first thought was "Who cares about losing their PNDs?, losing your appdata is way worse". Now I understand.


Good luck on getting your data back. I know the pain, several years ago (it was on my first pentium computer of 200 Mhz) I lost about 25 GB data (back then that was a LOT of data, these days it's a download of a couple of hours).
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With my connection speed, if I download non stop... 25 GB... would probably take two weeks to a month.


I'm so so envious of first world countries... I intend to retire in one and die a blissed out old loon. :)
 
FaeMinx said:
slaeshjag said:
Just to clear things up. 300 ZAR is about 45 USD. That's a fortune even by "western" standards o_O
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And for someone that doesn't make all that much to begin with... in a 3rd world county... actual physical pain was felt in the pit of my stomach this morning.
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Tell me if I'm wrong, but I believe you might have understood that slaeshjag said that it's relatively cheap. What he said was that it's very expensive.


Or maybe I was the one who misunderstood (you).
 
Christoph.Krn said:
FaeMinx said:
And for someone that doesn't make all that much to begin with... in a 3rd world county... actual physical pain was felt in the pit of my stomach this morning.
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Tell me if I'm wrong, but I believe you might have understood that slaeshjag said that it's relatively cheap. What he said was that it's very expensive.


Or maybe I was the one who misunderstood (you).
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I'm pretty sure he was just adding to it-- another wording would have been "Not to mention I don't make all that much to begin with."


At least, that's how I perceived it.
 
youre damn right it would be....ive had quite a few terabytes per month moments
 
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