Comments | roadriverrail: RIP, my hard drive

roadriverrail

RIP, my hard drive

Mar 30, 2009 10:01

Sunday, I hauled my computer over to Spetti House to try and nurse my HDD into condition for being imaged. Bill was gracious enough to help. I started out the day with elaborate enthusiasm, and I was going to take the opportunity to do a number of improvements to my computer, including installing a Blu Ray drive and possibly upgrading the RAM. ( Read more... )

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lizzyborden711 March 30 2009, 22:14:26 UTC

we are in the midst of a similar project, either making an ubuntu sd card to boot off of or just getting a new faster miniPCIe drive. i have xp on my eee and justin has the xandros. we both believe that our eees can perform better if we work on it. i just need to make double triple sure that i can get excel with the data analysis expansion and regression will work thru wine.

as far as iTunes, as soon as you call and let iTunes know that a new computer is authorized for your iTunes account, the files should download from their server rather than trying to get them off, DRM and all, from the iPod. at least that's what they tell me to tell customers.

roadriverrail March 30 2009, 22:44:06 UTC

Wine tends to give Silver or Bronze compatibility status to most Office programs, so I must encourage you to be careful trying to do Excel on it.

Interestingly, it's still the same computer. It just has a different hard drive and will need Windows reinstalled. If what you're saying is true, then it'll re-download on its own? I thought the official iTunes policy was "once you download it, it's your problem."

lizzyborden711 March 31 2009, 04:45:44 UTC

you do have to call them to reauthorize the itunes account to that computer, but they record your purchases and will send them back

traballenguas March 31 2009, 07:01:10 UTC

Bleah. I am having hardware problems of all sorts myself.

I have found Dropbox (getdropbox.com) to be great for syncing and keeping backups of most stuff - especially across different operating systems.

If you want to try it, and sign up through this link, I get extra space (but it is no big deal):
https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE2NTEzMzk

It basically rsyncs a directory across all the computers you have registered, and their are clients for OS X, Linux and Windows. There is a backup online (transfer is via SSH and everything is stores encrypted with AES-256). It is still network storage, which is, you know, network storage. Good for your music and other non-sensitive things. Free for 2GB, $100 / yr for 50GB.