Hard drive choice <OT>

[Tony Alfrey]

Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 05:00 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> Ric Moore wrote:
> <snippage>
>> <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] 

Marshall stacks rule.

> 
> Wouldn't the servo tend to stir and not shake?

Some lower life forms use blenders to make margaritas.

> 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. 

Sounds good.

> 
> That only left me to contact the ATF. 

Why would you do that?

> They are one humorless bunch.

This would be a surprise?

> 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

This man is clearly on drugs.  The low-grade stuff.




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Tony Alfrey
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