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wealhtheow

It Lives

Dec 24, 2005 03:53

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 ( Read more... )

victory for zim, computers, geek, mac

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snej December 24 2005, 17:12:38 UTC

Awesomeness! Let me be the first [w00t f1rst p05t] to congratulate you, Professor. Though I feel compelled to point out that there are some things Man was not meant to know - such as how to mess with the guts of laptops. (But now that you know, I have a TiBook with a dead hard drive that could use a Lazarus job...)

On dialup? Y'know, I'd heard there was one household left in the Bay Area with a dialup modem, but I didn't know it was your parents.

wealhtheow December 24 2005, 20:21:10 UTC

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 ( ... )

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wealhtheow December 24 2005, 19:49:04 UTC

Rawk. I may take you up on that. Thanks!

dreamword December 24 2005, 22:01:33 UTC

Office, as well as various other goodies, is available from me, too. Gawd, I've got to stop posting things like this on public entries.

So if you're in SF, stop by for infringement.

wealhtheow December 25 2005, 07:35:59 UTC

Hey, 3 installs per copy, that's not infringement! And I'm going to assume you're talking about a spare install and stick to that story.

dreamword December 25 2005, 07:38:40 UTC

I'll stick to that story.

coderman December 26 2005, 05:24:03 UTC

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

sweet! was the drive the only bad part after all? that doesn't bode well for recovery of the data but is certainly good news for your budget :)

With only seven screws left over!

glad i'm not the only one who has this problem!

wealhtheow December 26 2005, 09:06:17 UTC

Yeah, I'm glad I was able to make a DIY job of it, and I've already given up on the data, so if we can't get it back, no biggie. Not to say we shouldn't try, though :)