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Monthly Archives: December 2003
Double Double Hard Drive Trouble
Earlier this year we got some 200 GB ATA 133 hard drives for one of our older machine. It was having a slow noisy head crash, sounding a little more like a dentist’s drill every day. It was only a matter of time before everything on its hard drive went away for good, so we backed it up to the server, slapped the new drives in, formatted them, and copied everything back.
In the process, we discovered that the machine we had put the drives into only had an ATA 66 interface. It could still use the drives, but only 137 GB or so of the total 200 would be visible. Kind of a waste, but better than having a drive that was slowly shaving itself down to aluminum confetti to the tune of Aphex Twin’s “Ventolin”.
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Tagged Technical Notes
I’ve got a receipt
Yes, I know… No entry for yesterday. Give me a break… I double posted for the last few days before that, right? Anyway, I was busy installing some new hardware in my work machine, and then we headed off for the huge movie get together, so by the time I was thinking of posting yesterday it was already almost today…
So.
Return of the King. Not a bad movie…
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Tagged Personal Blather
Would “Whoops!” cover it?
So, I’m working with some MPEG-2 compressed video clips that need re-editing. Fortunately, Apple has a Quicktime component for dealing with that compression. Unfortunately, that component seems to have stopped working for people as of sometime yesterday. There’s a fairly simple workaround though… Just reset the date for the system to any day before the 15th of December.
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Tagged Uncategorized
Hey, a quiz!
I don’t post these often, and it doesn’t even have a shiny graphic for the results, but there’s a philosophy quiz over at selectsmart that seems fun. According to it, I’m rather like John Stuart Mill.
Tagged Quizzes
It’s time for the rack!
It’s amazing how many parts of winemaking involve things that share names with medieval torture devices. Both grapes and witches get pressed, for example. And in some unsanitary dual-purpose world, I’m sure that racking wine means something other than using a siphon to move it from one carboy to another.
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Durable Snow
Sunday morning we had the first really good snow of the season. About three inches of nicely packable stuff.
Tagged Art
Plastic feet
So, I’m back at work today… I woke up late last night to the realization that I was absolutely famished. This was a good sign that I was recovering. The fact that I’ve kept the food down is even better. Illness has not yet left the house though… My wife is down with, I hope, a milder version of what I had. Maybe I softened it up before handing it off to her for the coup de grace.
None of which has anything to do with plastic feet. That’s a bit of work related oddness.
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Tagged Personal Blather
Something old, but nifty
Lore Sojberg has updated his old Cyborg Name Generator and given it a site of its own… He’s also done something freaking brilliant by hooking it through Cafepress, so now you can get a shirt or a mug with your cyborg name and character on it.
Tagged Personal Blather
And don’t call back…
So, I’ve been sick as a dog all day… Actually, I’ve been worse. I guess that’d make me as sick as whatever the dog caught it’s original illness from. Or something. All I know is that my bucket and my bathroom are my friends.
And telemarketers are not.
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Tagged Personal Blather