Hard drive choice <OT>

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 05:00 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
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> > 
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> <snip>
> >  You know you cut a Brother, Tony. You could have told me that
> > you set it free to roam and whirr it's tape drives in the sunset, where
> > it would always be warm and dry, but never too hot. But, oh noooo...
> > right into the glug glug deep six. One of our young rams is learning to
> > head-butt real good. I'll introduce him to ya. <evil grins> Ric
> > 
> 
> Your problem is you just chose the wrong antiques to play with.  Now, 
> for example, if you had picked vacuum tube guitar amps, you'd still have 
> plenty of work to do.  Maybe we can pull one of the servo motors off 
> that old thing and hook it up to a blender for making margaritas?

I'd like to find a vintage tube-type VOX Super Beetle amp. That thing
would blow the hot pants off of Jessica Simpson. 8] 

Wouldn't the servo tend to stir and not shake? Here's one for the list.
When I lived in West Virginia I decided to have the first internet
moon-shine still. I found a couple of Uber-Geeks to help with the
telemetry, the analog to digital stuff to monitor temperatures at
strategic points in the process. They came up with some sensors for
alcohol content and with some cameras, we would be in business. 

That only left me to contact the ATF. They are one humorless bunch. I
contacted an agent in Charleston WV who put me on hold for a three-way
to Tennessee, who put us all on hold while he patched in Atlanta.
<cackles> I explained that it was to be a novelty act, with us Geeks
wearing bib-overalls, straw hats and blacking out a couple of teeth for
the web-cams, while all of this streaming data would be there for all of
the world to see. 

I was, at that time, already seeing my picture on Time Magazine, you
see. No, they didn't see. The license would have cost many thousands,
the taxes on each gallon was astronomical. I said I can see why so many
people decide to make the stuff illegally. It got mighty quiet on that
4-way, real quick. I think it was Atlanta that said I could make ethanol
for the lawn-mower for practically free. I asked if I could taste it and
they said they'd lock me up. <chuckles>  

So, to the faithful list, just what would it take to build a still using
only cast-off computer parts and Linux?? Take it to the next level and
work up a HOW_TO for Meester Bandel to follow and build one in Panama?
Copper line some old server cases, need some sort of heat source for the
mash (USB?) temperature probes, recipes for different rums plugged into
some sort of script that would relay the progress to apache, and the
will to do so. Maybe Netllama could convince nVidia to shamelessly plug
the event and supply some swag to Meester Bandel? Ric


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