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Does anyone have experience installing ATAPI drives in 3.5" half-height
FireWire enclosures? A
generous acquaintance donated (er, "long-term loan"ed) me a 4 GB
Travan ATAPI tape drive to replace my dead Sony SDT-5200 pseudo-DDS-2
drive. But it doesn't fit very well in my G4: I had to install it upside
down and its use precludes my simultaneously connecting an IDE
cable to the factory installed CD-RW drive. I have a choice of:
- hacking up the inside of the case so the drive will fit
right-side up (the bay is designed to accommodate a Zip drive, which
has its IDE and power connectors on the opposide side)
- trying to somehow fit a FireWire/ATAPI bridge board into one of
the external SCSI enclosures I have (the space above the tape drive
you see in the picture at right is empty)
- installing the tape drive in an external FireWire case, which is
still a lot cheaper than buying a new internal tape drive.
This enclosure
looks like the faceplate comes off, which might make it work, but the Web page doesn't mention any compatibility with non-hard drives.
Suggestions appreciated on how to achieve this goal; I just had a hard
drive failure and the thought of not being backed up scares me. I
wish I could afford a real tape drive right now.
11:15:38 PM | 
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You can always count on finals week as a fertile ground for uiuc.test posting. This exchange cracked me up:
Erik Newman wrote:
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> john marriott inflicted upon usenet the following:
> > Just let me know when, I have a super soaker 2500 that hasn't gotten
> > much use lately. I'll fill it with anti-herpes spray. Failing that,
> > some sort of acid.
>
> Trust me on this one. Spraying sorority girls with a Super Soaker is
> good for a $105 disorderly conduct fine in the city of Champaign.
and you forwarded poor mary to abuse!?!
10:41:33 AM |
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A number of my friends who host with csoft.net have been complaining about the service recently. It's definitely, er, cheap. This morning I read they cut off Les Orchard's 0xDECAFBAD.
I use pair.com as my Web host and could not be happier. The cost is quite a bit higher than that of csoft.net, though, and I've heard sporadic complaints about their shared MySQL servers (which I do not use).
The upshot of all this is that for the best reliability, I still need to move this weblog onto my own site. Some day when I have more than 15 minutes to spare, perhaps. In the meantime, I've still got 94% of my 40 MB free.
10:20:39 AM |
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Now I've made the changes below, form submission (clicking the 'Delete' button) also results in a new window opening. Need to fix somehow, hopefully in an elegant fashion. I wonder if CSS will work?
8:02:28 AM |
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A great tip: I use Radio's News Aggregator and always open links in new windows (or new tabs), so the aggregator page remains visible. Sometimes I forget to Command-click a link, and end up replacing the aggregator page without intending to.
The post I linked to doesn't describe exactly how to modify Radio's templates, so here's one way to do it:
- In the www folder, insert as the first line of system/pages/news.txt:
#meta "<BASE TARGET='_blank'>"
- Then, in #template.txt, add after the <head> tag:
<% metaTags () %>
That's all! Now your News Aggregator will always open links in new windows, without you having to remember to click with the middle mouse button or while holding down modifier keys.
5:56:03 AM |
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