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1TB disk drives
3:52pm, Thursday 26 April 2007

Hitachi is shipping 1 terabyte disk drives. How long before the time to fill a disk drive exceeds the drive's MTBF?

cdparanoia to the rescue
11:25pm, Tuesday 24 April 2007

outputting to track15.cdda.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [       + +++++++++++++++++++++| 038183 00 ] == :^D * ==)   

outputting to track16.cdda.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| 041819 00 ] == :^D * ==)   

outputting to track17.cdda.wav

 (== PROGRESS == [++++++++++++     +   +++      | 048379 00 ] == :^D * ==)   

Or, to put it another way, Daddy has just managed to make a working copy of the Michael Rosen CD which had some big scratches on it and wouldn't play. The children will hopefully be very grateful in the morning...

Grumble of the day
4:23pm, Wednesday 28 March 2007

RSS feeds which are actually Atom. I know, I should write use an Atom-capable feed aggregator; but I wouldn't buy a tin of beans expecting to find cheese inside.

(www.wondermark.com, I'm looking at you!)

Dear HP, I love you
11:04am, Monday 5 March 2007

I have a nice HP keyboard at work. Its best feature is the removable numeric keypad, which I promptly removed and lost, leaving me with a sensibly-sized keyboard. I wanted another one the same for at home. Tricky; it seems HP only made them for a short time. I found one on Ebay and bought it. When it arrived I was surprised to find it was a different layout to the keyboard I already have (UK vs US; \ ` ~ and other symbols are in different places, and there's no # key). But it's the same model and part number as the keyboard I already have! Dear HP, please investigate the concept of unique part numbers.

What a commute
4:21pm, Friday 2 March 2007

Based on xkcd's map of the Internet... here's where I am. What a commute! (eyas is my Bytemark mail/web/DNS server.)