What do you say when:
Thanks to hard work by our technical support personnel:
Crap And Crapability, Cool Or What and egilh are now up and running again. Let's just hope I don't face the same faith as Sony Executive that had to pay $850.000 for enslavement
I was looking for a simple 5 1/4 adapter for one of me 3 1/2 hard disks but I couldn't find any so I ended up buying the ViPowER 10LSFU. If it works I'll buy one for the other hard disk as well, do their testimonial and post until the disks get full :-)
Ok, I admit it: my 'server' is running the cheapest hardware I could find that gives me the performance I need. I can understand saving money on some high performance design details but the PC case?
I really want to me the guy who designed the PC case of my server. It looked OK enough when I installed the parts but I discovered a major flaw last night when the PC went down hard enough to refuse booting again (which explains why this post is 24h late). I opened the case and started poking around, looking for possible problems when I touched the cause ...
The house still smells burned flesh! I made the mistake of touching the 2 hard disks I have mounted in the 3 1/2 inch bay. (2 HD + 1 floppy) After tending to my hand I had a look at the disks again and discovered that they hard disks are mounted so close to each other that they touch. No air circulation between them at all. That explains why I started having bad sectors earlier this month when I did a major defrag on both disks. They heated up and I got a major hard disk thermal problems on my hands.
Prime PC Case designer: Please bend over and accept two hot hard disk in the rear slot
From ShitBegone, the only toiletpaper with its own blog I know about
ShitBegone is the American dream. A young man from Wisconsin made his way to New York City, the Big Apple. There he set out to forge his own future, making his name in the world of toilet paper. ShitBegone is a journey of discovery, an assertion of responsibility, and an expression of joy. It is the embrace of life. It expresses dedication and hope for a better world, for each individual and for all humanity
The page goes on to cover the finer points of wiping:
Some people crumple them, but the better way is to fold them. When you crumple toilet paper, just like if you crumpled a piece of writing paper, it gets sharp edges and corners. Paper feels smoothest when it is flat
Surprised to see that it doesn't mention the international aspects of toilet paper. A friend of mine works for one the largest toilet paper producers in the world. Over dinner (!) he elaborated on the different toilet paper preferences in different countries; soft versus rougher and textured version for better grip.
Via [Cool Tools]
Better be careful if you use your IBM ThinkPad on your lap:
IBM said on Thursday it will recall about 553,000 AC power adapters worldwide for several models of its laptop computers because of potential fire and electrical shock hazards
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The 56-watt adapters can overheat, cause damage to the circuit board and melt through the case, the company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said
Via [Slashdot]
Microsoft just released the new Windows Media Player 10. At the same time they also released a Preview Release of the Music Download service. The Music Download Press release service says:
In addition to the new U.S.-only service, MSN is also working with industry partners in several international markets to offer music services that meet the specific needs and desires of the consumers in those regions. Through these relationships, an MSN Music offering, built on industry partner technology, is currently available in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Korea and Australia.
So far so good; finally a music download service that can be used from Italy as well. iTunes doesn't want to sell songs to me and Rhapsody requires me to buy a subscription. I had a quick look at Wippit but they have few songs.
Now to the crap part. The Windows Media Player 10 download page doesn't allow me to download the player to my Win2k3 laptop. Using the display all link I managed to find the real download link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=34505 It downloaded in no time but the setup only runs on Windows XP. My trick for working around broken Windows XP software did -not- work :-(
It takes more than broken software to make me give up, so I decided to download "Hey Ya!" by OutKast from the online store. I don't have the latest media player but at least I should be able to buy and download songs. Or so I thought. I can select the song but as soon as I click on "Confirm", the site redirects me to the Windows Media Player 10 download page (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx) Bug or Feature?
I have a bit of allergy/cold at the moment so I bought some sugar free Halls to feel better. I did a major mistake and left the pack of Halls in from of me while I was debugging a GIS
system I'm working on. I went in 'debugging trance' and when I came out of it 30 minutes later there was only one Halls left. Boy did they work, but not in the way I expected. Turns out there is a small writing on the side; un comsumo eccessivo puo avere effetti lassativi. In other words; they're a great laxativeI have to learn to RTFM
before I do something.
