Archives for 30 August 2005
Terror alerts and witch hunts
Last weeks’ terror alert in the city of Hamburg with more than 1000 police men in the streets was probably due to a “misunderstanding” in an overhead conversation, according to a Spiegel news magazine report.
Gee, I wonder if these guys have ever read James Thurber and the proper gander…
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Death of (a few) tape drives…
Lately, it seems that I have no luck with my tape drives. First my good old trustworthy (and no longer in production because the company went bankrupt) Onstream ADR-60 tape died.
Yesterday the Sony SDT-9000 DDS-3 Tape in my ADIC changer choked itself on a cartridge (it is solidly wedged in. Even disassembling the drive and […]