Does Family and friend use Your CDRw/PC more than you?

[spaceman]

Egads!Ive burned2 discs w.my rewriter,my sister and grrlfriend come over and i now have over 2 gigs worth of wav files on my pc!(converted).
Does anyone suffer from a similar fate?
The old"hey whats up,im coming over to hang out aka:Im going to use yer pc for hours while you site there .

 

[billandopus]

There's an easy way to

1- benefit from this behavior
2- or stop it

by:

exchanging burning/converting for sexual favors (ps. not from your sister!)

 

[Rent]

I've kept my computer in my room. If anyone wants to use it, they better make damn sure they check with me first or I rip 'em a new one

I use my burner to help friends and backup games otherwise its more of a "on-demand" thing.

 

[jinglingxl]

my damn roommate burned like 10 cds last time while I was not there. and yes, he was using the blank cds that I paid for. :|

 

[AznBruin03]

hehe. know how you guys feel. I had to burn tons of stuff for people back in the day when burners were rare(over 4 years ago.. dang i feel old...).. lucky for me, most my friends have burners now..

 

[Stallion]

Our baby sitter does the same thing. Her and another gal came over and burned CD's all night. I think in the two years we have had it we might of used it twice. The thing that really chaps my butt is when she started to use our scaner/printer/copier. She scanned and printed so much crap we had to get new cartriges and those only lasted about 3 weeks. Needless to say after about $75 worth of new cartriges we had a little talk with her.

Don't even get me started on the fact she rewinds her videos in the VCR when I have asked her to user our video rewinder. And many other habits that drive me up the wall.

 

[MrCraphead]

Stallion, get another babysitter man! I'm sure there are plenty of other girls that will do a better job and not abuse your stuff!!!

 

[ArkAoss]

heh, yeah, i had people try to use my pc when they come over, but I usually have them bring theirs, and we can network and play games, or for my girls that don't have a pc, i let em come over and i have a whole nother system. . im tellin ya, girls act really nice when you have a system so they can play solitaire between nookie, other wise if your actually trying to do stuff, like make them cd's or print them pictures, they'll distract ya. . . if they don't have their own machine. . .

 

[Saint Nick]

The glory that was the year 2001

 

[Arkaign]

what about when . hamburghers are eaten and there buns are gone. taht is worse then cdS?

 

[preslove]

there compootre be broken?:fds sls ffs, tell the bitchs ta git there oen machin!


/thisthread'sspelling/grammar

 

[hanoverphist]

There's an easy way to

1- benefit from this behavior
2- or stop it

by:

exchanging burning/converting for sexual favors (ps. not from your sister!)

what if shes hot?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Nobody else has a password for my main PC.
Even if they did, I use a blank dvorak keyboard, so they wouldn't get very far.

 

[CZroe]

I'm putting my USB powered BD burner on actsofsharing.com even though I'm finally going to start getting some use out of it myself.

The glory that was the year 2001

THIS!

 

[Ken g6]

I didn't even have a CDRW until 2003!

 

[CZroe]

I didn't even have a CDRW until 2003!

Yeah. You were the one bugging us to use our computers and leaving crap on our drives in 2001 after burning your CDs.

By 2003, we had all moved to burning DVDs and you were likely doing the same mooch thing with that.

FWIW, I got my first CD-RW drive in Jan 98 (discs were expensive) and my first DVD-R drive in 2002.

 

[Leros]

I used to burn music cds for all my friends. Now everybody knows how to do it themselves. I was going through 50 packs of CDs several times a year.

Now, I don't think I've used my cd/dvd burner in over 3 years.

 

[Ika]

holy necro batman.

 

[Mike Gayner]

Nobody else has a password for my main PC.
Even if they did, I use a blank dvorak keyboard, so they wouldn't get very far.

I love it when people continue to conversation like it was started just today.

Thread necro is my favourite thing.

 

[erikistired]

holy necro thread. i was like...vcr? wtf? then i read the date. wow.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I love it when people continue to conversation like it was started just today.

Thread necro is my favourite thing.

Ehhh ... I don't read the date on Fridays.

 

[bobdole369]

She scanned and printed so much crap we had to get new cartriges and those only lasted about 3 weeks.

HA! cartridges that last 3 weeks! With girls printing up a storm!! HA! 2001 was so naive.

The only cartridges they sell anymore contain negative ink. I put one in and printed, and it took some of the ink off the pictures on the wall!

 

[brianmanahan]

yes!

i hand't burned anything in a decade, but a couple weeks ago my grandma wanted me to burn her a holiday music CD

i had to blow the dust off of nero before starting it up

 

[CZroe]

Love a good necro.

HA! cartridges that last 3 weeks! With girls printing up a storm!! HA! 2001 was so naive.

The only cartridges they sell anymore contain negative ink. I put one in and printed, and it took some of the ink off the pictures on the wall!

10 years later: Yore doing it rong!

My printer takes NINE of the smaller 80ml carts, which are still gargantuan compared to most printers. The larger ones are 700ml (0.7 liters). I extract ink from those to refill with OEM ink.

yes!

i hand't burned anything in a decade, but a couple weeks ago my grandma wanted me to burn her a holiday music CD

i had to blow the dust off of nero before starting it up

A few days ago I got a very specific adapter to use some old Plextor drives with modern PCs for the ReDump archival project. Had it in my Amazon cart for months then saw it was on sale for Prime Day. Plextor is still king.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

It took me the longest time to convert from OS install via CD to OS Install via USB.

I think I converted... about 3-5 years ago?