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| 2009-11-27 14:13 |
| unexpected Hardware Squee - Sony e-book reader |
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| e-books, hardware, squee |
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Since this Wednesday, I'm the proud owner of a Sony PRS-505 e-book reader (in silver). I've been wary about e-book reading devices for a long time - expensive, incompatible proprietary formats, horribly overpriced e-books in Germany, DRM, intrusive companies (Amazon deleted bought books on the fly!) - but recently, Sony dropped the price for the key-operated device by a hundred euros, adopted the open standard epub along with its proprietary formats and - let's face it - the lack of inbuilt WiFi (in comparison to the Amazon devices) comes as a large plus with respect to my books & privacy, so...
( Squee! )
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current chapter word count: 5254
less again because I decided against the shower (and the fan service) and for the Seishiro-Makoto talk and some Subaru contemplation time
resulting in better characterization and more focus on the plot than the butt.
continuing with Subaru-Michiko (one scene given, since working speed is closer to normal now)
character in for a tough talk: Makoto
character clearing the premises: Subaru
character actually drawing an ofuda: Ameru
character more professionally savvy now: Michiko
quote of the day: His pulse. Not Sado's.
totally unrelated side-note: ( cut over drool tech )
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( On cleaning )
( On drool-tech (as in "to drool over" and "technology") )
I'm so looking forward to type in all the scribbles for chapter 17 that accumulated over the last few days. Granny Talk 2 got a makeover, and the intro to Daylight Sex is finally written. Though there's still a gap to be closed in that scene... :)
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current chapter word count: unchanged (in file), drastically changed (on paper)
because Ameru kind of had it with pretense
entirely related:( rantish happiness )
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope there'll be more FM soon! :)
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current chapter word count: 6433
because of extensive tinkering in the first third of the chapter
resulting in better read, more liveliness of the plot
amount of chapter in continuous text: 75%
amount of chapter considered done: more than that, but there are fat gaps and skeletal scenes in between
research of the day: kamidana equipment
quote of the day: "Jasmine doesn't suit you."
Unrelated: Starting tomorrow (or probably Saturday, depending on exact time of arrival and amount of time moving takes) this shiny black'n'red baby is going to take a central place in my writing environment. Say "hi" to my new Samsung R560 Aura laptop, replacing my old (beloved) silver Samsung P30, which is facing retirement at my mom's desk after having been my companion for over five years. :)
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It feels great...
...to have your data available again.
...to have more desk space than before (because 2 500 GB drives fit l&r under the TFT, whereas the 1TB drive box did not)
...to have two silver 4 USB 2.0 ports on top of each (I'm a physicist - we're suckers for symmetries!)
...to have now enough ports for all of my periphery at once!
...to have the whole system back behind high-grade surge protection (*)
...to have all the black & silver wires neatly bound back again
...to finally be able to focus on writing!
(*) yes, I'm paranoid. You should see my UPS!
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| 2008-05-04 13:49 |
| HWR - Hardware Whine Reloaded |
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| crushed |
| beep... bebeep.. crrrrrrrk!!!! ? |
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My TB drive is dead.
I hoped for a while, but the number of bad sectors is growing with each check.
I won't spent 24 hours something running a chkdsk /r on a TeraByte. *sigh*
Pro: I was really lucky to salvage all my data from it! I lost 8 kB out of 800+ GBs. That's a pretty good quota.
Con: I'm bancrupt this month; I have to spend next weekend to remodel my system to deal with two external USB harddrives instead of one external Firewire harddrive; I need more deskspace, more power outlets, more... time for everything. And I generally feel as if this weekend kind of didn't take place. I need a weekend from this weekend. Now.
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If your 1TB drive suddenly pops cluster errors at you, you kind of know that the weekend is busted (as is your wallet, but that's another matter) - especially if you're paranoid regarding data loss!
So instead of working on FM yesterday afternoon and today, I raced around finding two 500 GB drives, a new USB 2.0 hub (because the TB is a firewire drive, which is nice but unfortunately expensive and two additional USB drives need more hubs than I had -- printer, scanner, graphics tablet, portable...) and spent the rest of the time copying material, rescuing data from the TB bad sectors, narrowing down losses (turns out: truly gone are currently 8 kB, but a drive already showing cluster errors cannot be relied on for data storage! Not when you want to sleep sound!) and overall setting up the system with two new drives - I'm going to keep the TB as kind of every day mirror, so that everything on it is also on at least one other drive - and realizing that I need another flash-protected power line. Will get that next week and use next weekend to do the rewiring...
Overall result: two shiny new drives; almost all the data rescued; and geek weight loss of 5 kg or more (at least).
But... I have scribbles for two of the three remaining issues in FM! So yay, for overclocked minds!
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| 2007-11-05 19:59 |
| New Hardware Squee - USB Stick |
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| geeky |
| hardware, squee, usb |
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I got around and a new USB Stick, because I was kind of sick growling at my old 4 GB (Intenso) model for its *comfortable speed* (as in "comfortable for the usb stick, uncomfortable for my patience). And after a weekend of testing, running fat image-burdened openoffice docs (60 MBs +) right off of it, all I can say is: wow, despite its kind of embarassing brand name -- *cough*power-ram *cough* safe-stick *cough* -- and the weird sensation of having a blue flexible -- *cough* rubber *cough* -- USB stick that actually bounced when falling off the desk.
Of course, said blue rubber is the reason the thing is not only "drop-safe", but able to survive a trip through the washing machine (40°C, easy to clean), so yeah.
Maybe no glitzy optics, but cool performance! YeaH!
(and thanks to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) solo____ for calling my attention to the double entrende of it! *eg*)
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I finally got my little black (no, not from Dior; it's a Samsung Q45) laptop three days ago, but I was too busy with work, story posting, review answering, and overall daily life (eek) to give it it's deserved new hardware squee
It's small, black, shiny, powerful and lightweight with an acceptable battery life of 5+ hours!
Now I'll beat the OS into submission and start feeling mobile!
on a totally unrelated sidenote: the new version of Semagic (1.7.0.9) now also supports automatic tags on IJ. :)
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| 2007-09-29 17:51 |
| Hardware Quark - Printers |
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| cynical |
| MeatLoaf - There's A Wolf At Your Door |
| hardware, rant |
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My first printer ever was a HP deskjet 850C, which worked over 6 years until it died by spitting one of those tiny rubber wheels used for moving the paper inside (and out) onto my feet. Needless to say, the prints were kind of "lacking substance" (as in being printed on paper) afterwards.
( the messy printer deaths )
Now I have a shiny new Canon Pixma ip4500 in glossy black lacquer (I'm so going to see every fingerprint & dust particle on it - might be useful in reminding me to clean in time). It's a bit bigger than my old HP and setting up was slightly more complicated, but the test prints looked great and I'll be able to replace the color ink cartridges color-by-color not all-colors-at-once. I do a lot of bluish art work, so that should save me some money, too. (And if Canon's die by barfing ink onto carpets, at least it's going to be LESS INK than what comes out of the fat all-in-one HP cartridges!).
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