The Day the Music Died
For reasons I haven't yet divined, Pandora stopped functioning at work. It loads the Flash file, loads my station list, and selects a song. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be able to actually download any audio data. For a second, I thought this might be a proxy problem, but that doesn't fit the symptoms. It's still fine when invoked in Windows, for instance, but not Linux. Since my Windows machine is virtual, I can't get sound that way. Argh.
OK, I thought, time to bust out the ol' jukebox again. I brought it to work today, along with a few CDs that never made it to the jukebox. I plugged in the power brick and let it charge up for an hour. When I pressed the power button, it made a rather nasty clicking noise and the display backlight blinked along with it. Oh. Fried hard drive. Great.
OK, luckily I brought some CDs. I'd almost left them behind, but they were already in the carrying case, so why not? Surely they'll work, right? No, sadly, the OS can't seem to mount them properly. Argh and a half.
Now ddmerillat is dissecting the jukebox with the intention of replacing the hard drive with his new one. If it works, I'll buy him a new one. This will give me 80 GB of storage at about one-fifth the cost of an 80 GB iPod. Yay, I hope!
OK, I thought, time to bust out the ol' jukebox again. I brought it to work today, along with a few CDs that never made it to the jukebox. I plugged in the power brick and let it charge up for an hour. When I pressed the power button, it made a rather nasty clicking noise and the display backlight blinked along with it. Oh. Fried hard drive. Great.
OK, luckily I brought some CDs. I'd almost left them behind, but they were already in the carrying case, so why not? Surely they'll work, right? No, sadly, the OS can't seem to mount them properly. Argh and a half.
Now ddmerillat is dissecting the jukebox with the intention of replacing the hard drive with his new one. If it works, I'll buy him a new one. This will give me 80 GB of storage at about one-fifth the cost of an 80 GB iPod. Yay, I hope!