{"id":61,"date":"2006-01-22T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/pimp-my-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","slug":"pimp-my-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/pimp-my-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Pimp my hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim took me to the UW Mens Hockey game Friday night vs. Denver, which was an excellent  time; I should look into hockey tix for next year.  Unfortunately I think Tim was the only fan who walked out a winner, mostly because he couldn&#8217;t have lost.  The Badgers did lose, 0-1.<\/p>\n<p>Before the game, Tim gave me a free PC noise consultation for my Myth box.  Besides reproaching my whiny 60mm CPU fan, he recommended suspending the hard drives, which had previously been screwed directly to a metal 3.5&#8243; enclosure.  By his direction, I now present my (<em>significantly<\/em> quieter) MythTV hard drive rig, complete with Singer elastic (available at your local Walgreens, near the shoe polish) shocks:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocks.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocks_t.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocksblack.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocksblack_t.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocksred.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mywebspace.wisc.edu\/mccambridge\/blog\/hddshocksred_t.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim took me to the UW Mens Hockey game Friday night vs. Denver, which was an excellent time; I should look into hockey tix for next year. Unfortunately I think Tim was the only fan who walked out a winner, mostly because he couldn&#8217;t have lost. The Badgers did lose, 0-1. Before the game, Tim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1834,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}