Firewire burns out… nearly
Needing to copy about 600mb of files to over 50 iBooks this lunchtime I decided to copy the files to four firewire drives which we could then use to connect to all the laptops.
To save time I thought it would be a good idea to copy to all four drives at once. Sensible? I thought so. These particular firewire drives can be daisy chained so I daisy chained two drives to each firewire port of an eMac. I arranged all the windows neatly on the screen and started to copy to all four at once.
Pow! Error! Device Removal! All was silent in the room and the LEDs on all four drives ceased to shine. Frell. I unplugged one, plugged it back in again, nothing. Dead. Kaput. For a few terrifying moments I thought I had killed about £800 worth of kit in one go. Luckily after a sequence of unplugging and plugging into different machines they started working again.
So let this be a lesson, not enough power on the firewire bus to thrash four hard disks at once.
Holiday in danger
Argh! The wuckfits at lauperr‘s work won’t let her have a week off to go to Cyprus, despite her giving the required four weeks notice. What makes it worse is they have no good reason for refusing it and still expect *her* to change *her* shifts at the flick of a hat for *their* convenience. It’s not like it’s a particularly nice job or she’s treated nicely or anything. Grr.
Xjournal
Just testing out XJournal which is a LiveJournal client for the Mac, seems pretty cool so far.