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Even girl geeks deserve a personalized floppy. This one is for Susie. She's hung it up at her desk at work. She works for a gaming company so can't take pictures of it in situ, but she is now the envy of the office (queen of the geeks!).
Pattern: Floppy Disk Cross Stitch by Grace K (andwabisabi on Etsy).
Start Date: February 23, 2011
End Date: February 28, 2011
The Roxe Jam has taken place in Cardiff's Sevenoaks Park since 2007.
The Jam is to pay tribute and to remember Roxe, a Cardiff Graffiti Writer who sadly lost his life in 2007.
The event takes place every summer and attracts graffiti writers from around the UK and occasionally further afield.
Today we'll have a look at what a HDD looks like from the inside. Featuring a large (5.25", "full height"), ancient 2GB SCSI disk, manufactured by Seagate, obtained via the ancient art of dumpster diving. Modern drives use the same basic principles.
It took about 38 screws to take this thing apart... NOTE: don't try this at home. You'll obviously lose all data and may be injured by magnets, small parts or evil extraterrestrial cats. You have been warned.
MAD was a program I was writing to let me do drawing on a BBC Micro. This was a disk containing a version I had re-written for the Archimedes. Eventually, I found better software which I used instead.
www.recyclart.org/2009/05/diy-floppy-disk-bag/
Very funny way of reusing floppy disks ! See how to do it yourself at the instructables
A bit less portable than those recently rendered extinct by the ipod. Just as this old instrument was by the player piano
How to set up RAID 10 array for high performance and fault tolerant disk I/O on Linux
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