Does anyone have a computer set up that I could drop a SATA drive into and see if it reads / back up some stuff if it does?

It's a 2.5" SATA disk out of a laptop.

Toyota boss Akio Toyoda has said: 'When the cars are damaged, it is as though I am as well,'.

I feel kinda bad about scratching Beppo now. If you have a Toyota, please be nice to it..

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This is an idea that came to me over Kiwiburn. We've got the autumn and winter stretching out, and it would be good to do a festival where we could make art and play tunes and the like before next Kiwiburn.

I see this starting out as quite a small event (hence the (interim) name, a Quark being a very small particle of matter).

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I'm still getting a failure to load most images and CSS from LJ.

The problem seems to be that l-stat.livejournal.com isn't responding.

Both LJ and Xtra are showing no reported errors.

Anyone else seeing or heard about this?

[EDIT] Thanks ferrouswheel for the fix. DNS issues. Changing to OpenDNS fixes.

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So, just to document this year's KB10 piece before it slips into memory.


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Kiwiburn was awesome, again ( Read more... )

I dropped my laptop as I was walking down the hill from Jodi & Will's last night. Bag not done up, visions of a stuffed hard disk ( Read more... )

I noticed elsewhere a reference to "organic soap". Quite aside from the usual misuse of the word "organic", this concept really amuses me.

Soap, you see, is made by reacting sodium hydroxide (NaOH) with some kind of fat or oil. The fatty acids in the oil react with the base to form a molecule with a water soluble head and a fat soluble tail. This ( Read more... )