Posted by Jason
Sun, 28 May 2006 23:10:00 GMT
I bought a Maxtor OneTouch II from Yodabashi Camera in Akihabara while I was in Tokyo.
The drive worked great for more than a month. I soon made the stupid mistake of making it my only main place to store my data. Soon after, it seemed to die; it was recognized as a USB device, but not as a USB mass storage device and Firewire didn’t work at all. But whenever I turned it on, the hard drive seemed to be working fine. It made perfectly healthy hard drive noises, and it did not click at all.
Instead of screwing around with the warranty (which most likely would have resulted in the loss of my data), I decided to extract the drive and try it as an internal hard drive. And sure enough, it works. So it was just the enclosure that was defective. The moral of the story – buy the enclosure and the hard drive separately! And buy two – I was lucky that I didn’t lose any data, but next time I probably will. I plan on buying another enclosure and hard drive purely for backup.
A couple relevant links:
A review I found expressing the exact same problem I had
Taking apart a Maxtor OneTouch II
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Posted by Jason
Mon, 22 May 2006 21:30:00 GMT
It has been a while… But it is time for an update.
First and foremost, I have been playing the Google Maps API. This is my first real creation. My goal is to create an application for the creation/editing/viewing of similar presentations. It will be unfortunately similar to Wayfaring, but the whole animation thing is unique. Anyway, I’m starting work on that… Once I get into the Rails backend part, then I’ll hopefully get to implement my test recorder idea at the same time. But first things first, I’m starting to work on the editor first, which will be mostly Javascript.
Next, I’ve finally ditched my old Apache/FastCGI setup in favour of Lighttpd and Mongrel. The conversion thusfar has been quite easy. I was resisting the whole Lighty movement for the longest time because I wasn’t sure if it was configurable enough for me, particularly in the virtual hosts area. Well it turns out it’s more than good enough. I like the lighttpd.conf format too. And while I like FastCGI (and will continue to use it to power my forum), Mongrel is simply a better fit for a Rails application. I’ve still got a few loose ends to tie up in my Lighty/Mongrel configuration, but I really don’t see myself reverting back to Apache.
As you can see, I’ve reverted back to the default Azure theme for this blog… SublteSpeed just wasn’t working for me, so in the process of moving to Mongrel, I ditched it. I intend to change the design (as well as the design of my web site), but it’s a low priority.
Most importantly…
The Oil’s cup run is probably the greatest thing happening in the world right now. Not exaggerating. The only sad thing is that I’m not in Alberta to experience it. But it aint that bad… When I wear my Oilers jersey downtown I usually run into a couple vocal fans. And I’ve been booed a couple times, but that’s cool too.
I’ve been buying a lot of records. Garage sales, antique warehouses, and record stores. Here’s just the latest garage sale haul:
Finally
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