Russian radio.

[reddragdiva]

• apiphile live on stage. I fling my legs in the air for her POUNDING BRAIN.

• NotN: Downloading keeping "billions" inside the UK; Y2012 problem: Mayan calendar runs out.

The Zen Touch hard disk is a Hitachi 1.8" with the interface of a 2.5" that is unlike anything else on Earth and is all but unobtainable at sane prices, but CompactFlash adapters are another matter. Not that that's a financially sane option either, but hack value! Is restoring this thing to rather more shock-proof function worth twenty quid? Possibly! In any case, the precise correct CF adapter is seven quid and would certainly be of use elsewhere. Now to find seven quid.

(Tech these days is built for obsolescence and disposability. Fixing and then using something discarded by two other people in turn feels like beating the system. The trick being absolutely minimal expense, and that on things that will be useful elsewhere later.)

(Of course, you end up with boxes of worthless rubbish that might come in handy.)

Today has been a quiet day of sleeping, tapping on computers and playing bad '80s pop music. arkady is making silver rings for dolls.

p.s.: "Jumpin' Jack Flash" by Aretha Franklin, with backing from Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, as featured in the Whoopi Goldberg movie of the same name, is absolutely immaculately horrendously bad, wrong and shit and a comprehensive musical summary of everything wrong with mainstream '80s pop culture.

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[(Anonymous)]

I need to make a throwing out list of all the electrical tat I don't use.

Got at least 3 CRTs in this one bed flat, and 7 (?) sun boxes..

[reddragdiva]

CRTs are the most unlovable item ever, as far as I can tell - literally worthless, as a new £100 LCD will pay for itself in 3-6 months by comparison. Hard to even freecycle. Putting 'em out on the pavement is where our last two ended up.

You can usually get a better price on eBay for the bits of Sun boxes as opposed to complete boxes - there's always some nutter who's got the "keep old tech going" bug worse than you (or me).

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

What's the URL for said adaptor? My Thinkpad (x40) uses the same unobtainium drives...

[reddragdiva]

This is an adapter on eBay that claims to do the job for £7.

I've also asked the seller for precise dimensions with two CF cards fitted for this beast. Two 32GB CF cards in an X40 would make quite a nice toy indeed.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Two 64gb cards even moreso!

[gths.livejournal.com]

Well, now, that's an interesting idea. My fubared iRiver thing (the H340) has one of those stupid drives (or at least something equally as hard to find) which of course is dead now. What annoyed me about that was that I had only just replaced the battery in it before the drive died. So I might look into that too.

[reddragdiva]

Precise dimensions of the two-card adapter with two cards fitted are (per seller) 50 x 43 x 11mm. The 20GB Hitachi drive is ~7mm thick, the 40GB drive is ~9mm thick.