The new gate frame is built an…
March 21st, 2010The new gate frame is built and attached, I need another 2×4 before I can attach the cedar boards. Just as well, it started to rain then.
The new gate frame is built and attached, I need another 2×4 before I can attach the cedar boards. Just as well, it started to rain then.
Just decided the solution to the #hamradio problem was ordering a Alinco mic to replace the ADI that got hosed. On to next problem..
I really need to build one of these, it is WAY cool! http://bit.ly/bp18Bn
So I learned a couple things yesterday. I don’t have the greatest tools for dealing with hard disk problems on the Mac and finding IDE 2.5 inch laptop drives is difficult. I discovered another old drive sitting in my pile of hard drives yesterday and tried to use it. After fussing with it a while and asking Rosie (since it had stuff on it with login) I remembered it was the drive that died in her Powerbook. So that drive now has a big red DEAD DRIVE tag on it.
The trip to Fry’s was not very useful last night in search of a new hard drive. They pretty much had only SATA drives in the laptop size. Lots of really good deals can be had now on 320G 2.5 SATA hard drives. (Thinking about upgrading the drive in my Macbook actually. So I went on Amazon last night and found some of the last remaining IDE drives and had them over night it. It still won’t be here until Tuesday, since it was to late Saturday to go out. Sigh…..
I’ve decided to wait and not put the original drive back in. I’d rather keep it as the back up, backup drive. I hope the family can deal without having Apple TV for a couple more days. I know that I was already annoyed last night when I couldn’t watch the episode of House I’d been saving.
Our AppleTV started having ‘issues’ about a month ago. It was locking up, needing to be rebooted way more often then normal. (Instead of once every 6-9 months, once every 4-5 days) It was also starting to show sparkles when playing back certain shows and generally just not being happy. On Thursday I told it to-do a factory restore, which basically is suppose to flatten the drive and re-load the factory image from its spare partition. Well that REALLY pissed it off, because it wouldn’t even boot all the way back into the normal mode after that.
I sort of was thinking the drive was going bad at this point, which should be straight forward to fix. But now I’m just a little confused. I pulled the box apart last night and removed the drive. After attaching it to the adapter cable I bought when I upgrade the drive from the original 40G to the 230G, I ran it through all the normal disk checking steps. This is where things didn’t go so well, rather then finding some bad it just said everything was OK.
So I started at the beginning, laid down the original image I saved when I did the disk upgrade last year. Put everything back together and hooked it back up. But that didn’t work so well, it would boot into the diagnostic mode, but otherwise wouldn’t go any further. I pulled the drive out again, re-did everything in case I missed up a step and go the same results.
I just snapped another image from the original drive. (Little surprise I found it so easily) Then put the original drive in the box to see if it would work. Of course it was totally fine, booted up normal and happy started playing stuff which was on it last year before going into storage. I’m not laying the ‘new’ image down on the big drive and will try everything again. If that doesn’t work I guess I’ll just replace the drive. Can you even fine 2.5 inch ATA laptop drives now?
@bernard_ben May the force be with you and LEVEL UP!
Isaac wanted a hotdog sandwich, so we went to Burger Master for lunch. Such a smart little boy. Now home for yard work.
Isaac is doing much better after 1st dose of super drugs. We hit the mall and got a super Lego vehicle to put together.
Just made todo list for today and filled a page in my notebook. Now filtering based on need done today and will get fired if not done.
I got a Kindle for my birthday, but didn’t think it would radically change things for me. I had been using the Kindle app on my iPhone since it came out and liked it. But that little bigger screen made just enough of a difference that I decided to try some experiments. The first was getting a technical book, which I knew I wasn’t going to need for more then a couple months. I was able to read it on the trip to LA last month and get out of it what I needed for a project without having to lug around the physical book. Now when I need to reference it, I just pull it up on my Mac at home or what ever device is handy. (Yes, the Kindle app is out now for the Mac. I’ve been using it for a while and it works pretty good)
I’ve already canceled all my pending fiction book orders and switched them to Kindle orders. (pre-release orders) I already picked up another Ruby book I wanted in the Kindle format and have been converting all my PDF stuff to it. Now I’m considering picking up another technical book, which I know I’ll need for a while in the digital form. I just can’t see the down side. I can make bookmarks just like I normally do with stickies. I can actually search it, which is huge benefit. Plus I have them with me all the time!