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Jul. 29th, 2005 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katsmeat* I HATE fixing stuff. My supposedly 'rugged' USB flash drive has died - the USB plug broke away from the circuit board. Now, I'm going to have to sacrifice a USB extension cable so I'll have a USB plug with a length of stripped wire. I can solder that onto the flash drive's circuit board and get the data out of it.
Actually, thinking about it, if the drive still works, I could put it in and old 35mm film can, fill it with epoxy potting compound and make a USB drive that could survive being driven over by a truck - hmmm... tempting. No, no! Cancel that, what I could do is mount the USB circuit in a Zippo lighter case. Apparently, people are using these to house all sorts of gadgets these days - MP3 players and suchlike. I have a friend who made an LED torch out of an old Zippo, it'd be cool to top that!
I think the key is redundancy. A big thumb drive is so important, its something I use literally every day, I should have more than one. Anyway I bought a new one on eBay just now.
* Didn't the Daily Mail enjoy itself when they found one of the 21st of July bombers was an asylum seeker? With any luck, the three bombers still at large will be found to be a traveller, a single mother on state benefits and a paedophile. This will result in the first incidence of a newspaper expiring from orgasmic pleasure.
* I went to see Kung Foo hustle - the Chinese give the genre the Airplane treatment. Though the fact it's so similar to 'serious' kung foo movies shows how silly they really are. It's excellent... go see!
Actually, thinking about it, if the drive still works, I could put it in and old 35mm film can, fill it with epoxy potting compound and make a USB drive that could survive being driven over by a truck - hmmm... tempting. No, no! Cancel that, what I could do is mount the USB circuit in a Zippo lighter case. Apparently, people are using these to house all sorts of gadgets these days - MP3 players and suchlike. I have a friend who made an LED torch out of an old Zippo, it'd be cool to top that!
I think the key is redundancy. A big thumb drive is so important, its something I use literally every day, I should have more than one. Anyway I bought a new one on eBay just now.
* Didn't the Daily Mail enjoy itself when they found one of the 21st of July bombers was an asylum seeker? With any luck, the three bombers still at large will be found to be a traveller, a single mother on state benefits and a paedophile. This will result in the first incidence of a newspaper expiring from orgasmic pleasure.
* I went to see Kung Foo hustle - the Chinese give the genre the Airplane treatment. Though the fact it's so similar to 'serious' kung foo movies shows how silly they really are. It's excellent... go see!
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Date: 2005-07-29 11:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 02:16 pm (UTC)I think you've just paid me back for all the unpleasant mental images I've given you over the years. :)