Looking forward to taking a 'sick day' tomorrow and having a field trip to Friday Harbor. I get to-do some beta testing with the infamous UDRx radio!
Putting the Amateur back in Amateur Radio
Looking forward to taking a ‘sick day’ tomorrow and having a field trip to Friday Harbor. I get to-do some beta testing with the infamous UDRx radio!
NW Digital Radio
Putting the Amateur back in Amateur Radio
http://www.wbur.org/npr/360340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77
http://www.wbur.org/npr/360340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77
Ferry boat time! Taking a trip to Friday Harbor to get a lesson in tuning duplexers.
Ferry boat time! Taking a trip to Friday Harbor to get a lesson in tuning duplexers.
The spinning drive in my mid-2010 MacBookPro died a while ago. I replaced the built in drive with a 300G SSD and all was good for about a month, then I ran out of space. Going up to the next size SSD was very expensive, so I bought this adapter thing which allow you replace the DVD drive with another hard drive. This worked pretty well, I had a spare 500G drive laying around. Took a little hoop jumping to move my home directory to the second drive, but it wasn’t to difficult.
Well that second drive (which was a spinning drive) started dying. Luckily the price of bigger SSD’s has come way down and I never really ended up using more than about half the 500G. I ordered a replacement drive yesterday, paid the extra $7 to have it delivered the next day and started the cloning process before going to bed last night. I just finished installing it, other then having to re-sync my Google Drive folder, everything just worked.
I have noticed two things really quick. The laptop doesn’t make any noise now, because the fan doesn’t seem to come on. And things are even faster than before, so having the system on a SSD is good. Having your home directory on one is even better.
