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I am RUNNING TO BED before I am tempted to write more and stay up
until dawn again!!
...after one helluva weekend trying to get a computer to work reliably. Last week, Thursday or Friday I think, I happened to pull up Disk Utility on my MacBook only to notice that my system drive was listed in red lettering. I figured that wasn't good so I clicked on it and saw a message telling me that my system drive was in need of repair and that I should back up my data ASAP and replace the drive. Sheesh. Now, I'm a but of a gear-head and know nothing is as simple as swapping out a drive. I mean, it should be, but it isn't. So, I didn't want to risk getting half way through the job of replacing the system drive to find something totally screwed about my computer and be laptop-free in the middle of National Novel Writing Month. No problem--I can just use my netbook, right?
Wrong.
Earlier in the week I had been trying to install Windows 7 on it and in the process trashed the XP install that was running on it. So I decided to get some sort of light-weight OS onto the netbook and hope my MacBook lasted long enough to help me. Luckily, it did. Unluckily, it took me two days and attempts at installing three OSes before I managed to get Easy Peasy up and running.
Meanwhile, on a whim, I decided to try repairing my MacBook's system drive via Disk Utilities. After a few minutes it told me to repair the disk via my installation DVD. Which was odd since when I click on the red lettering it tells me to replace the disk. So, just now, I popped in my installation disk to find that inside Disk Utility's repair window, it said my disk was repaired. However, the lettering is still red. After running the repair routine again, it confirmed that my drive is OK. Yet, the capacity and brand and model number are still colored red and S.M.A.R.T. status says "Failing" in red, as well.
So, I guess I'll just have to swap out the drive at some point. I have a backup drive I can sacrifice (though I don't want to since I'm already using it to back up stuff), but maybe I can reformat my system disk and use it for backups instead?
Odd that I only recently uprgaded to OSX/10.6/Snow Leopard
OH and I forgot to mention: my MacBook is what I cut all of my videos with Jay ThePal, so there may not be many of those until I get my MacBook problems sorted. :\
Well, the LiveUSB is, anyway. Not to see if it'll install on the SD card...
So now I'm installing eeeXubuntu 9.04 on my MacBook via Parallels which I will then use to install on an SD that I hope to run on the eee.
I did have eeeXubuntu 7.10 running just fine on the eee (via SD) but thanks to how Linux pretty much forces you to install new apps via repositories (think the iPhone's App Store) I was screwed since all the repositories were out of date and nothing would install properly. I was able to steal Mplayer off my XO, but that can't handle subtitles, so... Time to start over with a newer version of eeeXubuntu. It's a real shame no one can be bothered to update the eeeXubuntu wiki page at eeeuser.com to reflect that there have been *two* releases of the thing since the version the wiki claims is the latest. I'd do it but I hardly think a Linux newb like me should be trusted to get it right... I'm such a newb I just realized that I don't need to install eeeXubuntu on my MacBook via Parallels because I'm using a LiveCD! See? Newb. Luckily, installing in Parallels is wicked fast. Wish me luck!
Like I said on TheLifeStream (here:
http://life.thepete.com/post/251321282/bizarre-christmas-sex-romp-while-the-kids-watch-window
), I think I’ve figured it out—the wife is ashamed to be
uncontrollably super horny and the dad is like: not in front of the
kids!!
I think I've figured it out--the wife is ashamed to be uncontrollably super horny and the dad is like: not in front of the kids!!
I refuse, you slut! (But I'm good for after the kids are in bed!)
That could be Vint Cerf for all I know--but, regardless, telling us an old man came up with the idea for Windows 7 isn't going to make me want to buy Windows 7.
Was it also his idea to not have one called Windows 6??
