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Posted at 4:02 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by dave

Looks cool. Too bad I’m “forbidden” from viewing it.

And what’s up with the site being down for 24 hours? I figured there’d be a post about it.

Posted at 4:04 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by SilVer

It would be nice if the link worked instead of giving me a “ACCESS FORBIDDEN” page

Posted at 4:09 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by Doug Cooper

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /2006/04/25/top-5-uses-for-a-dead-hard-drive/ on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

…and may a plague of a thousand rabid rodents decend upon all of the “first post” llamas!

Posted at 4:14 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by craash420

front-page of digg
probably why it’s down

Posted at 4:18 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by drayk

does digg just steal all of our links?

Posted at 4:48 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by bird603568

need to start autocaching these sites regardless of the host. that way if the site gets hosed by us, dorks (i mean digg), or in the odd case slashdot we can still see it. I have seen eliot or whoever posts doing it for geocities or anglefire but i think it needs to become a standard option.

Oh well, somebody tell me when it is back up.

Posted at 5:23 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by hal hockersmith

yes, yes they do. anyone got the video that could put it on youtube or google vid and post about it?… cached or something?
Kinda hard to prepare for the ’slashdot’ effect…

Posted at 5:49 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by Tired2

Sorry guys, my hosting provider was having some trouble with the traffic :( It should be up for good now… (I hope)

Posted at 7:06 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by Alan

Still seems to be a slow down every now and then. I uploaded the videos of the hard drive scope to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izi2wqaLLmM

Posted at 10:03 pm on Apr 25th, 2006 by Alan

This video is wicked. If I could download it, I would upload it to google video for better viewing. Youtube sucks.

Posted at 6:53 pm on Apr 26th, 2006 by Best funny videos

Why not turn on the hdd’s motor and it spin the mirror at a certain number of scans per second/minute? It would be alot more precise than moving the platter yourself.

Posted at 9:57 am on Apr 27th, 2006 by Self_defenestrate

try using an 8 sided mirror on the hard drive platter and letting that spin. you should get a 45 degree trace.

Posted at 2:08 pm on Apr 27th, 2006 by name

Hi 13,

That is the same thing someone said in the site comments. I am going to keep my eyes open for something like this:
http://forum.hackedgadgets.com/viewtopic.php?t=42

Posted at 3:01 pm on Apr 27th, 2006 by Alan

I built one of these before, not with a harddrive tho. The horizontal deflection works best with a 60Hz Sine, so it can scan back and forth allowing the high frequency vertical deflection to display a very nice visual.

Posted at 6:23 pm on Apr 27th, 2006 by Stevediraddo

Hi Stevediraddo,

Got any pictures? I would love to see some.

Posted at 6:51 pm on Apr 29th, 2006 by Alan

idea:- reduce the oscillator frequency of the controller chip on the hard disk. this can be done by replacing its crystal with a lower frequency one.

i’ve done this to a 5 1/4″ disk drive to lower the rotation speed before.

-A

Posted at 8:15 am on May 16th, 2006 by andre