It Lives

[wealhtheow]

It took me 8.5 hours (with a break for In'n'Out and a great deal of waiting for installs to complete), but I stand triumphant: the iBook lives again, with a new HD from coderman and a fresh Tiger install courtesy of twid. I had so much fun. The PBFixit guide worked just dandy. I don't know what a T8 Torx screwdriver is, but a 5/64" hex key worked just as well

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[wealhtheow]

And remember my mom used to work at Apple. It was Compuserve on a NeXT cube then, and it's Earthlink on a G5 now. They've made vague noises over the years about upgrading to DSL, but nothing comes of it.

My dad, who had long since gone to bed by the time I finished the operation, just walked in and said, "Did you get your computer to work? You did? I didn't know you were that mechanically inclined! I am impressed with your mechanical skill." I win. (My sister is a senior MechE student, and when her iBook went foom early in the semester, she had to send it away for like a week to be fixed. Ah yes, the sweet taste of victory in the neverending sibling rivalry battle.)

there are some things Man was not meant to know

The whole time I was working on it, I was thinking of Frankenstein and of the passage in The Unbearable Lightness of Being wherein Kundera talks about how the vocation of surgeon entails a sort of heretical violation, by dipping one's hand inside the body that God made. I wish I had the exact wording in front of me, as he put it much better.

Anyway, there are