rant

Post by **hubird** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:02 am

what about Dutch ex prime minister 'KOK'

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:08 am

On 2003-06-13 09:02, hubird wrote:
what about Dutch ex prime minister 'KOK'

Kok in Polish is 100% a hairdress - if a woman has got long hair she prepares a hair roll on the top

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:29 am

Samplaire, I think your Miss Integration picture shows that east and west are in fact very far apart

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:59 am

It was not a miss contest. It was something like a pro-Europe meeting/demonstration

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:31 am

my rant of today is that Honda renamed their model "Honda Fitta" before release in norway.

Gordon Gekko · Post by **Gordon Gekko** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:05 pm

jesus spirit, don't post anymore pictures like that or i will have a heart attack

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 4:01 pm

Quite tight pants

I heard a story about a Mercedes or BMW (I am not into cars), wich had the name MRD. It wasn't a big hit in France, as it would be pronuced very similar to *hit.

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 7:54 pm

A bit like a Korean car sold in Australia called the KIA (

"Killed in action" )

next to nothing · Post by **next to nothing** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 9:05 pm

except "fitta" is actually the "p" word for cat in norway, and not ment in a cat way.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 9:51 am

I Tought I taw a Fitta Tat...

I Diid, I Diiid tee a Fitta Tat!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:22 am

Yesterday, 2 of 3 of my hard drives died. Maxtor 30GB ATA133 (the best of my old projects) and WD 80GB 8MB (containing all samples, and projects in progress) are no more. Damn. Checking on HD recovery now... ):

[update] The freezer restored the WD drive!! Thanks Nestor!!!

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Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:05 am

I have been thinking a lot about data security during the past days. I think I have come to a solution, wich unfortunately is too expensive to me :/

Ingredients:
Music PC must have LAN thru the chipset - not going thru the PCI-bus. Intel makes some 865 and 875 boards with this.
Another PC with a LAN and RAID card. This will be that PC, that stores the music data.

Too bad, I am not in the financial leage to buy a new music PC + RAID controller + several hard drives. But I think the idea is doable.

I realy hope you get back your data!

Post by **hubird** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 2:37 pm

He Atom, good luck with your HDs.
You have some troubles with them last year, you must be more gentle to them I guess

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 5:51 pm

my hardware supplier recently informed me to expect no more than 3 years lifetime on a Seagate Barracuda 5 after I told him I found the 'test drive' getting rather warm.
What the hell does he know ? Seems I missed a survey

ranting, Tom

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 6:24 pm

Hubird, cheers, I had already forgotten about that (must have been quite a trauma;) You're right, and I have no idea how comes. I mean, it's not that I like to kick the drives. Last year's crashed HD had proven duty, but...

Tom, the WD is 3 weeks old, should be their latest and greatest. Looks good for the cheaper versions

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:21 pm

I just bought a seagate baracuda SATA with 120 gigs. I hope it lasts. I haven't had many drives die and the ones that do I simply format and they seem to go on for years more.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:21 pm

at0mic

Are you OCing your PC? Raising the PCI-bus raises the harddrive"bus" too. Maybe that is, what burns your hard drives?

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:23 pm

well, this is the rant thread: what really sucks on the Barracuda is that bloody Seagate label on that nice plane surface which would be a perfect place for a passive heat spreader.
They WANT to fry the drives to have you buy a new one.

cheers, tom

ps @Immanuel : that reminds me on some very early SCSI drives having a mechanical 'track zero' indicator fixed by a small scew. A super-smart dude wrote a driver to increase the head motors spead, so this thing got slashed back and forth on track searches more rapidly - and of course it didn't stand the duty for too long

Very funny in a time you paid 1 to 2 k € for a 20 meg drive. You could either sell a relacement drive or impress your customer that you were able to revitalize the thing with a screwdriver

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Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:51 pm

you can remove the label I guess. Even if you can not, you can still plaster the drive with heat sinks. The label will just not pass the heat as well as the rest of the surface - but it will be better thatn nothing. I actually think it is a fun idea.

I have now for many months thought about adding small heat sinks to my CW cards. I only wonder, if it would void the waranty :/

Glad to see you saved your data at0mic

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 3:52 pm

Immanuel, I'm running this machine at standard speeds. 21 dsp and 3 large & fast drives might need more cooling. To be honest, I removed a 60mm fan from the HD bay to make room for the WD 3 weeks ago. I've put the fan back, in front of the drives.

I've just restored the Maxtor, the last drive to backup, containing all samples!