Firewire burns out… nearly<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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 \u00a3800 worth of kit in one go. Luckily after a sequence of unplugging and plugging into different machines they started working again.<\/p>\n
So let this be a lesson, not enough power on the firewire bus to thrash four hard disks at once.<\/p>\n
Holiday in danger<\/b><\/p>\n
Argh! The wuckfits at lauperr<\/a>‘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.<\/p>\n Xjournal<\/b><\/p>\n Just testing out XJournal <\/a>which is a LiveJournal client for the Mac, seems pretty cool so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading oops<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}