Lone in the night

Here are a couple of pictures found in a forgotten folder of my PC. My daughter and a Citroën SM (Gaspé, Canada). Myself and a Renault F6 (Québec city, Canada). Renault R8 and Ferrari replica (La Malbaie, Canada)

Few months ago, I played with a Yamaha Pacifica guitar in my local music store. I found it really pleasing and easy to play. I told this to one of my colleague, and last week he sent me a message: one for sale on the net. I finally bought it, almost new for 425$ with its flycase. It's a Pacifica 604W, red finish and white pickguard: http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetail.html?CNTID=1001&CTID=223600

The IDE hard drive on my Fostex DMT8-vl multitrack recorder shows signs of its imminent death; when getting hot, I could not record anymore. Must be said this drive comes from an old Sun Station, and has been replaced because I/O failures were detected by Solaris. It worked at least 5 years in my recorder: not so bad. However, time is now to replace it. The DMT8-vl is not able to handle drives bigger than 8.4 GB. Well, it is able to (the current drive is 15 GB), but only 8.4 GB will be usable. My tought was to use a 8 GB CompactFlash; having no moving parts means no noise, which is quite temptating for a music recording device. I purchased a CompactFlash-IDE adapter on the internet (8$) and I had to build a male-male IDE cable adapter (4$). Unfortunately, this doesn't work. The drive is correctly discovered by the operating system, which proposes to format it ("format IDE?"). After answering "yes", the formating runs pretty fast (faster than on a real drive), ...