Friday, 10 May 2002
Freefall was really great again today. I no longer answer my phone at home, FWIW. 
12:27 AMThursday, 9 May 2002
Some decent Tradewars 2002 tips. (There, I admitted it, I'm addicted. Thanks Lee, really.)
Turned out my external hard drive didn't die, my G4 stopped recognizing FireWire devices after I installed the tape drive. Probably plugged something in incorrectly. So scratch the below idea.
Wednesday, 8 May 2002
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.
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.
You can always count on finals week as a fertile ground for uiuc.test posting. This exchange cracked me up:
Erik Newman wrote: > > 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!?!
