April 24, 2008 Archives

2008/04/24 06:17:00

storage and cgi

I finally got this external usb drive box I got from newegg working. It had been sitting on top of my computer, ignored, for a week or two, because I am inveterately lazy; but I finally got it to approximate a working state. I knew the drive worked, because I plugged it into magnesium (the windows computer, and the only computer with SATA ports) and formatted it, but when plugged into the box it did its paperweight impression.

It turns out that the widget for mashing the drive into the interface ports mashed with insufficent authority, so I just pulled the interface board and mashed manually. It isn't elegant, and it sure as hell isn't portible, but it just works, and that's good enough.

I also got tired of the "video coming soon!" note on the water simulation page, so I dug out the old blender files. I figured posting the original file would be lame, (and expensive, it's a 130 meg avi) so I resolved to render it again. Which I'm doing! As we speak. Check back in a few days, or not, I guess.


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