30th Aug 2004
Dock Around The Clock
I’m going to get geeky.
There’s other stuff I could write about, like my terrible camphone pictures of the protesters on the Great Lawn in Central Park. That’s a whole story in itself, how I went from tranquil Petaluma to a hubbub of NYC protest aftermath in a matter of hours. Loved the Billionaires For Bush spoof!
Or I could write about the Great 2004 mishap with a jar of Fairway Spaghetti Sauce, which rendered my kitchen into the Tomato Pavilion, permeated with a wonderful garlic smell. Cut my thumb nicely with that one.
But fellow geeks, I ponder the following:
ComboDock, FireWire800 / USB2 Docking Device
It’s a FW800 / USB 2.0 dock for IDE drives. Since I have about a half dozen IDE drives sitting around, this would be a handy way to grab their data, as well as earmark them for an “extra backup” for big photo projects.
Cheaper to buy future bare drives and run them through this, than to keep buying enclosures and FW bridges…
The other thing that occurs to me is that you could put a PC & Mac (as in, an Intel Debian and PowerPC Debian) Linux environment on one of these, and, with the right partition scheme, be able to run off of any newish machine in sight. The tricky part would be deciding how to deal with the boot sector…
So that’s my thinking out loud bit. I’m basically burnt out on dealing
with drives in PC cases, and the thought of easily getting to them from my PowerBook has a lot of appeal.
