Macintosh LC 575

So.
My dad visited me from far enough away and brought me our old Macintosh LC 575! :DDD
It is the very computer which ignited the spark of my "addiction" to computers and Internet. It is the computer I was using when AskJeeves, Lycos, AltaVista were cool search engines. When ICQ was teh thing. The computer on which I played my first games (which are still awesome). The computer on which I made my first drawings, typed my first documents, etc. Many fond memories are attached to it, the typical weird nostalgia inducing memories like the startup beep and the sound that the hard drive makes when the heads position themselves as the drive spins up :  *Tac tac tac tac traaaaaaaaac*

Unfortunately, the old SCSI hard drive is showing signs of hardware failure. At any time, I will hear the sound of the heads positioning themselves 3 times and then the computer will hang.

For obvious reasons, I do not want to throw the whole thing into the trash and just use an emulator, nor do I want to get a more recent classic mac, so I have to find a replacement for the hard drive.
The drive is SCSI 50 pins.

I have a few options :

- A new SCSI hard drive ($58) : http://kdsdrives.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=1437
- A SCSI memory card reader ($62) : http://a4000t.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=180
- A SCSI CF card reader (9,900¥) : http://artmix.com/CF_AztecMonster.html

I am not sure yet what I want to do. It would be more simple to order a new hard drive, but I don't really trust sending a hard drive in the mail as these things are fragile and may very well arrive broken.

Right now I only want to back up the drive and use it until it dies. I am waiting for my SCSI ribbon cable to arrive in the mail to plug the hard drive in my PC to back it up and then...


RETRO GAMING TIME!

Equalization payments for idiots and why, yes, Quebec should separate.

This needs to be said...
Too many idiots from the ROC talk out of their ass about Quebec and equalization payments, repeating the same old shit they heard from people equally talking out of their ass, saying that Quebec feasts on equalization payments and that they cannot leave because they need them.

Bitch, please.

If you are one of them, unless you really only are an idiot who just wants to hate on Quebec on anything, no matter whether it's true or not, or if you want Quebec to leave, then you should go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canada to educate yourself. If you don't understand what Wikipedia says and what it implies, come back and read the following.

Dessins animés d'enfance/Childhood Cartoons

C'est avec joie hier que j'ai redécouvert des dessins animés d'enfance que j'avais pas vus depuis que je m'étais débarrassée de mes cassettes VHS, il y a au moins 15 ans.

C'est aussi avec HORREUR que j'ai pris compte de la qualité horrible des doublages. Oui, dans toutes les versions Françaises ci-dessous, ce que vous entendez c'est exactement ce que j'avais en cassette. Quand on est enfant, c'est évidemment pas quelque chose dont on se rend compte.

Dans tous les cas, j'ai aussi listé la version originale anglaise de bien meilleure qualité.

Au printemps/To Spring - 1936 (MGM)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFsC0IoNZSA

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOw_AiB6zEI

Il était un petite navire/I Wanna Be a Sailor - 1937 (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgX0wFa-LoM

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSRm3gKUw9o

Le pays des ballons/Ballon Land (a.k.a. The Pincushion Man) - 1935 (Celebrity Pictures)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr4meakNClE

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxucYzKXXCI

Popeye recontre Sindbad le marin/Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor - 1936 (Paramount Pictures)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggcHnDgzIfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYPQjliDYnY

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpM1YNevRNg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCunVslNL4

Un lapin au frais/Fresh Hare - 1942 (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6SLK6zEg3g

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tF6xikBuL8

Un lapin fuyant/Falling Hare - 1943 (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Français

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lBolWE6qZo

English

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPf5fSDGVk

Things I find fuggly in fashion that people like.

Stiletto heels.
Pointy shoes.
Fancy, shiny, glittery dresses, the kind celebs wear on red carpets (I seriously find them ALL ugly in their dresses because SORRY, I CAN'T SEE YOU BEHIND THE FLASHINESS OF THE OVERWHELMINGLY FANCY, SHINY, GLITTERY SHIT YOU'RE ALL WEARING. By the way, YOU ALL LOOK THE SAME).
Leggings.

Stereo Mix on Mac OS

Pretty easy and free!

- Download Soundflower here : http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/downloads/list
- Install it.

If you get an error saying "The system extension "blah blah" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update.", run the following two commands in the terminal :

sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext/
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/Soundflower.kext

- Go to System Preferences > Sound > Output > Select "Soundflower (2ch)"
- If it isn't already running, launch Soundflowerbed
- In the Soundflowerbed menu in the menu bar > Under "Soundflower (2ch) > Select "Built-in Output"


You're done!