Still a use for OS 9

“This tip, while it does not always work, should be given a try first. You would be amazed at how often it does work and saves the bacon. Mac OS X hard drive issues: Sometimes you can’t see the drive or think the drive is fried. Try connecting it to a Mac OS 9 Mac.
 
I have had two massive failures over the years and this saved the bacon. My first one had to do with an early deployement of a OS X 10.1 server. The drives were mirrored by using an Adaptec card. 39160 card. Seems that the card, software and Apples RAID software did not want to co-exist together. I had a massive failure. Thought I might have to send the drives to Drive Savers. They suggested I hook one of the drives up to a OS 9 mac.
 
Lo and behold, there were my files. I copied them off and reformatted the hard drives. Used a ATTO card in place of the Adaptec and everything was hunky dory. This won’t always work but if it does it will save you time and money.”

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Roadcasting

Gibson wrote about something like this in his last novel [Pattern Recognition] …

Roadcasting is collaborative, mobile radio. It is a system, currently in prototype state, that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among wirelessly capable devices, some in cars, in an ad-hoc wireless network. The system can become aware of individual preferences and is able to choose songs and podcasts that people want to hear, on their own devices and car stereos and in devices and car stereos around them. ”

Roadcasting
http://www.hcii.cmu.edu/M-HCI/2004/roadcaster/movies/scenario.mov

Weekend trip

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Linda and I took made a trip up to Harrington, in the Laurentians, on Saturday. We wanted to see the Rouge River (Fast currents, Kayaking and River Rafting operations) and the area where i grew up. We made a short stop in Calumet to see an old friend and got detoured on a great little hike to some amazing hidden waterfalls. Was great seeing all the harrington valley and the current state of the log cabin i grew up in and the surrounding land, even stopped by the very small elementary school i went to for grades 1 through 4.