My download folder just hit 4 GIGS!! What about yours?

did i mention i just build this machine in the middle of december with a blank hard drive and i only have a 56k dial up?

Lead me to wonder what do the other techs download (at home), and how fast do they get
what they want?

out of the 4 gigs it goes something like this

Movies 1.2 gigs , takedown and gladiator
Programs um i mean demo software 2.4 gigs
security utils 300 megs
some of the other misc i stuff i download
certification practice exams,
hacking and cracking utils, (can be great for the forgotton password)
a little of every thing here for me. so the question is how much have you download, and how much space does it take? and what kind of connection do you have to the internet

My download directory is about 8GB large. The system was built this past November with a nice 45GB HD. By the way, I have cable service.

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MiGeL :)
"You're dating fingercuffs?"

ever hear of cd-r's

I had to go out and buy a new 17g drive, then a month later I had add another 20g drive, then a week later I went out and got a burner.
moral of story- never advertise your ftp on IRC

I have learned a wonderful thing, its called delete or uninstall. I keep my home computer pretty clean and burn most stuff since I format my computer about once a week. I'm an MCSE2K in training so I have a new OS on a different computer of mine all the time and I don't believe in dual boot when studying. Why dual boot when you can just build another PC?

I am constantly clearing the folder to CD-R.
I d/l mostly updates and some trialware.
I find Download Accelerator Plus to be a pretty good program to speed downloads over a dial-up connection. It also supports auto-resume if the connection drops.
http://www.speedbit.com ver 4.0.0.2



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"I Love Cats......
.......They Taste Just Like Chicken"

4X650mb Cdr's

about 2.6Gb
https://forums.windrivers.com/

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You spend your whole life believing that you're on the right track,
only to discover that you're on the wrong train.

Very seldom get over a gig, I try to keep stuff burned to CD.

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It's a dog eat dog world out there, and there isn't enough dog to go around. So get as much dog as you can, before all the dogs gone.

Right now,
about 5 GB, but that includes Games, and "trialware", also, programs that I host.

3.41 GB on a drive dedicated to DL's, 10CDR's and 3 CDRW on the go soon to be converted to CDR. 2.7 GB of MP3's, the rest actual files. Parctice test ect on seperat system, and on 2ndary OS amounting to 1 GB (MCSE + I NT4.0 on the go, to be upgraded to WIN2K)

Which Download folder?

Movies? 12GB

Photos? 2.5GB

Drivers and Utils? 7.6GB

Funny stuff? 1.5GB

Misc. 534MB

Have I over organized again? Sorry bad habits die hard.

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Who the hell is General Protection and why is he messing with my comuter?

I got 2drives, a 4.3 just for Windows/office etc, and a 12gb drive, split in the middle. 4 GB is taken with Copies of software etc which I will burn off when I get a CDRW, and 2 GB with Downloaded stuff, some movies, and util progs. (56k Modem by the way!)
The other 6 gb has only 200mb free, and contains all my work, scans, and game installs. Man, I need to buy a 40gb drive which should last me a few more years!

Any good CDRW name to look out for.. i heard RICOH were a good make..?

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A General Protection Error has occured - Time to go home...

All MP3's downloaded go onto the Linux MP3 server in the basement, it currently has about 9.2GB worth of MP3's on it.

Other downloads go to the download drive in the NT server, which currently has 8.25GB of drivers and software.

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I have no recollection of any set of words, that when grouped together, form a favorite saying!

O' I have about 30gigs of MP3's, Apps, Games and Porn. I got it on my Win2k Server. It rocks!

Most of it's MP3's. I'm a collector. I have an easy 10gig worth of them.

soory folks, but I got ya all beaten, come back when u have 25x10gig hot swappable drives full of crappy misc downloads that you cant be bothered to organise or delete "just incase theres something u need"
https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Windows, what you throw your PC out of

6 gb in total downloaded over a 56k dialup. (over 2 years or so)

1.2 is MP3's.
800mb is Vids (funny clips etc)
900mb images / wavs' etc
2.5 gb software, demos, cheats, hacks, patches, etc
500mb of utils, and a few ghost images (I know, not downloaded, but that's where the space has gone..!)

I always download at work, dump onto x drive, and then download at home, saves wasting time browsing for what your after..

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A General Protection Error has occured - Time to go home...

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soory folks, but I got ya all beaten, come back when u have 25x10gig hot swappable drives full of crappy misc downloads that you cant be bothered to organise or delete "just incase theres something u need"
https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Got it!....There is a dude I know that works at and ISP who has a couple of 40GB Seagate Cuda's filled to the brim, all with MP3's.

He could make your download collection look like Monopoly money!

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I have no recollection of any set of words, that when grouped together, form a favorite saying!

[This message has been edited by 3fingersalute (edited January 19, 2001).]

Allrite, i jsut hit a 12 gig MP3 folder and a 16 gig Movie folder, not to mention warez i have downloaded, for a grand total of about 32 gigs of download, all on a fresh format in november. Yes thats correct i have no life!! lol

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"And You Say Self-Important Egomaniac Like It's A Bad Thing" Maxim

Hmm latest count is 12gigs FULL on my "Storage" Partition

Last nite, before formatting i had a 6gig c:\mirc\download directory, yah thats an awful lot of shareware https://forums.windrivers.com/

Needless to say i have a 40gig drive, a burner AND dsl. so half my ****e is burnt to cd as it is

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Not a bad effort at all!

I have kept almost EVERYTHING i have ever downloaded or created on my PC since my first 286 I have had one HDD crash and lost everything but since then I have accumulated about 80 gigs of stuff. I don't want to burn stuff to CDR because it's much much easier to visit the archive HDD than to hunt through piles of CDs looking for Winzip 8. When I run out of ro0m I buy another HDD. I have everything backed up on CDR though because I'd be pretty homicidal if I lost it all.

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Oh yeah and that's all through a 56k connection, on a shared household phone line! No wonder I have no friends!! No actually that's why I got myself a mobile. The rest of my family have no friends or life... Oooohahahahahahaaaa!

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Oh yeah and that's all through a 56k connection, on a shared household phone line! No wonder I have no friends!! No actually that's why I got myself a mobile. The rest of my family have no friends or life... Oooohahahahahahaaaa!

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Those are some pretty big numbers. Mine probably seems insignificant. But, I think filling 40gigs in one month is bad. Worst part is I don't even know what I dl'ed [other than in general.]

Going from 56k to DSL didn't help. After DSL the hard drivs fill up like an unatended litter box...

I have 20+ cd's of porn, ah I mean, educational videos showing the mating habits of .... 26 gb of MP3's, 4gb of un burned ahem.. educational videos, 15gb or so of backup software (mostly trialware) and several gigs of text files, all in all about 60gb worth of downloads. I downloaded 12 gb last week alone.

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Death is lighter than a feather - duty heavier than a mountian.

About

86 cdr's of nice quality anime *guess that makes me an anime otaku!*
51 cdr's of movies (err...nevermind)
13 cdr's of mp3's
150 cdr's of "evaluation programs"

Yes I know I should feel bad, but I just can't bring myself to stop DL'ing everything!
Hotline is light-years better than IRC!

Well... lessee...

7 PCs at an average 16 GB per PC, = 112 GB

Plus, 450 or so CD-Rs and CD-RWs (650 MB x 450 = 292 GB or so)

So, 112 GB + 292 GB = 404 GB or so

I do have cable service, and often download full ISO images of Linux, etc. I also have 5 older PCs (not included in above listings) that I use to play older DOS games that won't work right under Win 9x, and they are also for hacking around, testing, playing MP3's, whatever. I am also going to build a P-200 MMX machine with an old Pack Bell desktop case that I got for free to play MP3's, and control a mobile entertainment system for my conversion van (TV, VCR, DVD, stereo, etc. Maybe play a few games with it when parked, too... thinking about doing a wireless dial-up thing via cell phone for Internet usage as well, but unsure how to implement that).

Damn, I just realised... I really have too many computers! No wonder I don't have any room in this house! :-)

LOL

20 GBs of mp3s and rising. Cable modem at work. https://forums.windrivers.com/