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Originally Posted by redbird4848
LR, those pics are awesome. I don't know what fractals are, sounds like something you get on your body.
I need to learn how to back up all my computers programs. Do I just buy a CDRW? We are heading towards spring and you know what that means. DONDERSTURMS!
My last computer was fried. Literally. Lightning hit the tree outside our house and the lightning ran into the ground and hit the phone line and blew out one entire wall of electrical outlets.
The phone jack was blown across the room. I can't find the pic of my computer, but here is a pic of the shed that was at the base of the tree. BTW, the tree lived.
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Fractals are a geometric shape of a sort. They can occur naturally or with help from computer programs. They are a series of similar shapes that replicate each other, like the patterns of cracking in a dried-out mud flat. When you back up far enough, you can see how each little bit resembles a bigger bit, and so on. Or some plants, the commonest example, I think, is a fern frond. All the little segments of the frond replicate the entire frond. Someone about 20 years ago did a marvelous book of photographs of naturally occurring fractals, with the exception of snowflakes, if I remember right. Plants, mountains, deserts, waterways, ocean waves - lovely stuff. I've wished many times I could take pictures of things like that, or just about anything else, but all I have to do is touch a camera and it dies. And if it doesn't die, what I do get would embarrass a tourist!
I prefer a flash drive for back up. I have a 4 and 16 gb, and they do fine. They are small and portable - about the size of a small fat pen, so when I'm feeling particularly paranoid about losing things, I can drop them in my purse or pocket and that's that. My techie friend has all his diagnostic programs on one. I think it's considerably cheaper and easier than CDs, but that's just my opinion. Also, it's a lot more difficult and expensive to get writeable CDs where I live. One pack of 5 costs about what both of my flash drives did, and they aren't nearly as portable.
I REALLY don't want to think about lightning strikes!
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01-16-2008, 11:24 AM
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