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paulpomes

CMI - Champaign, IL

Jul 01, 2009 13:42

Up until I left for the airport last Friday I wasn't certain I was going to go. I had done a surgical extraction of the left mandibular fourth premolar on my cat (a 13-yo diabetic castrated male) the day before and his appetite the next day was minimal. At Martha's urging and reassurance I gave him half his usual insulin dose, his antibiotics, and ( Read more... )

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jlindquist July 2 2009, 20:49:13 UTC

After once fighting with a bad combination of available USB ports and speed issues, my tool kit now contains not only the USB2 to PATA/SATA converter (includes a power supply!) but also a PATA drive to SATA interface converter. (Also: assorted cables and the happy 2.5"-3.5" IDE adapter boards.) Time-limited/emergency upgrades just can't be left to USB. FireWire's great if you've got it, but too many PCs still don't. I also recommend a spare optical drive. The only thing I can't do from my iBook is create a bootable USB flash drive, but if I can boot an Intel box from an optical disk, I'm covered there.

When I finish it, I have to write up the adventure of updating my DVR box. We have still not solved the problem of boot loaders (LILO or grub, no difference) having different views, pre- and post-boot, of which interface is the "first" one.