I've gotta start thinking about what we're gonna do about a media controller once we've settled in the states. I already have a projector, so we're covered for wide screen movies for the time being. We'll need something for everyday viewing and I'm thinking that'll be an iMac 24" with an Elgato DVR attached to it. Can we keep it in the living room for everyday use? I dunno. It won't be cheap either.
I could also buy an enclosure back in the states for less than $50 from newegg.com. I would need Firewire and USB connections along with an internal fan. I'd hate to have heating problems again.
Well, I can't trust my OWC firewire drive anymore. It's a 120GB in an external enclosure I bought a while ago, I have no idea when. Recently it started to sound pretty loud, so I thought the enclosure's fan was cranking away, only to realize that it doesn't have a fan! The noise was the HD spinning up. Enough is enough!
I used to use it as network storage for all of our important files, so I move all that over to my Buffalo 250 HD. That drive had problems of it's own: over heating. It wasn't until I cracked the case open on that drive that it has begun to work reliably. It took me a while to figure that out as you can see.
Moral of the story... only buy enclosures with fan units on them.
This Schwinn might not offer a better solution, but it still looks like a cool bike. Interesting new battery technology and drive train. I actually can't tell how the electronic drive train works. Most ebikes have an obvious connection linkage with the manual drive train, but there's nothing to see from the photos on Schwinn's website.
Well, not really my house... the dept. scored a 30GB iPod, much to Katya's doing, this past month. It came from unspent budget money and we've already been putting it to good use, and there were those who said we wouldn't use it. Damn, all the teachers should have their own. Dubhgan has been showing in-class video projects, Katya and I have been playing sound files through the classroom TV's... the iPod kicks butt. We have it on manual updating so that we can share it between all of the computers. It's easier than erasing the thing each time. Making me drool over one for myself. I'm holding out for a large screen, high capacity model. Think 80GB iPod + iPhone.
I'm still trying to remember when I bought my G4. I believe it was before I started my Masters degree which would put it around 1999. It's been serving me very well since then. I've been milking it for every penny. And it was a pretty penny indeed. I don't even remember how much I paid, but it was over $2000. When I put it like that, I feel like I need to get at least five more years out of her. The screen is practically broken off, but when that goes, I'll just add on an external screen. Since I'm running MacOS Server on it, I might just do without one all together.
I just installed its first new part: a brand new 80GB drive. It was a little pain in the ass to get it in there, but in the end, it was a pretty quick job. It gave me a chance to reorganize my files and install the Server edition to start with a fresh beginning.Every partition has its own trash folder. This is necessary because it means you can delete stuff without the system copying files to one main trash directory. On external drives, this folder is in the root folder called .Trashes (note not .Trash).
You may need admin permissions to see it. If you type this into terminal, it will list the trash contents on a drive:
sudo ls -al /Volumes//.Trashes
It will ask for you password.
Normally, the trashes folder has a list of folders named by user ID. I think 502 is the default admin ID so inside .Trashes there should be a folder called 502. To see what's in there, you would just do this:
sudo ls -al /Volumes//.Trashes/502
to empty it, you would type
sudo rm -rf /Volumes//.Trashes/502/*
Again to save typing the name, you can drag the volume to the terminal but don't drag it from the Finder sidebar. This will just remove the drive from the sidebar. If you don't mount volumes on the desktop, add the computer to your Finder sidebar (or go menu>computer) and access it there.
You can also use tab as an autofill so if you type /V (for /Volumes... above) and then tab, it will fill in the rest of the name.
In general, it's not a good idea to use sudo rm. Save it for those times when it's absolutely necessary. You can actually erase important stuff that way. This is why it's good to drag stuff to the terminal too because if you accidentally left a space out between the first / and what came after it, you'd erase your entire partition.
