{"id":21,"date":"2008-08-03T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T06:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2008-11-06T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T12:56:37","slug":"fun-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padizio.com\/blog\/2008\/fun-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"

My schedule is completely thrown off. I spent Saturday in Saugatuck, MI<\/a> with friends raislak<\/a>, zarniwhooper<\/a> and husband, asta77<\/a>, and my wife<\/a>. We had wine, burgers, and fun, and then arrived back at home around 5:30ish.<\/p>\n

Side note; all those friend links are to livejournal. Can’t just follow the trend, pauld, can you?<\/em><\/p>\n

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Not being big day-trippers, Teeny and I were quite tired when we got back. So we decided to take a nap. I woke up at 1:30 am, Sunday. Oh my. Hence, this strange ramble.<\/p>\n

So I replaced 4 (four) hard drives on Friday night. Oh, the carnage! I now have a Western Digital 30 GB, IBM Deskstar 120 GB (the actual dead drive), and two Maxtor 100 GB SATA’s on the floor of my office, with a very happy Western Digital 500 GB SATA drive in my old Mac<\/a>. By the way, this Mac is a dual G4, 500MHz each, and is over 8 years old. With 1.5 GB of RAM, however, she still cranks out blogger posts all like snip-snap<\/em>. So why mess with a good thing?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, this may be the final stop for this machine. It is currently running Leopard, via the very tricky Install Via Target Disk Mode from a PowerPC Mac Mini. But because I now only have the Serial ATA drive available (using the Sonnet Tempo<\/a> card), I don’t have Target Disk Mode available to me. In fact, to get this install up and going, I used the fabulous Carbon Copy Cloner<\/a>, and the power of prayer, to see my old Deskstar’s contents onto the new drive.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen a lock-up now in 36 hours (yay!), but I am now in NIOTM, Nothing Important On This Machine, mode. If for whatever reason this machine is no longer bootable, and I have some key piece of not-backed-up data, I’m 100% screwed. So, nothing goes on this machine that is absolutely vital to my day-to-day. Fortunately, when, not if, I forget this rule, I’ve got Time Machine and a 1TB Time Capsule to save myself.<\/p>\n

That said, the machine is running very smoothly after all the hullabaloo. Also, my power bill should be a slightly happier sight, because a) I shut down my computer for a significant chunk of time (days!) and b) I’ve replaced four (4) spinning hard drives with a single HD. In addition, that single HD is a WD “GreenPower” drive, which means that it spins down on its own to 5400 RPM when I’m not using major disk I\/O, and spins up to 7200 when needed. How much power does that save? WD says 40%. I’m sure that’s not accurate, but I know I’m saving power by not having the other three drives, so I feel a bit less like an ecological disaster. At least until I put these other drives in a landfill.<\/p>\n

By the way, it’s now required that every hard drive box list the number of MP3’s you can store on a hard drive. That is a very important<\/em> modern metric for space. Of course, along with that number, you need a disclaimer proving that that number is essentially arbitrary. My box’s disclaimer says,<\/p>\n

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“Examples of the number of photos, songs, and any other files that can
\n be stored on a hard drive are provided for illustrative purposes only.
\n Your results will vary based on file size and format, settings, features,
\n software, and other factors.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s sexy. Mine holds 125,000 MP3s, and if I can’t fit every one of those on there, I’m suing. So, where can I legally aquire 125,000 MP3s, people?<\/p>\n

Don’t forget to listen to Twit 154<\/a> in which Dvorak will joke about Greenwashing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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