ccady's Journal: Hard drive copied and installed.

I got my hard drive copied and installed. Since CompUSA was a bust, I took matters into my own hands. I opened up my stepfather's old computer, the one which was sitting in the garage waiting to be recycled at ACCRC and figured I would plug the drives in and copy the partitions using PartitionMagic. (From the same company that makes DriveImage.) I realized that the 2.5" drives needed a different connector than the standrad IDE connector. The older drives had 40-pin connectors and a separate power plug. The new laptop drives have a smaller 44-pin connector which included the power. I wen to Fry's, bought two 40-to-44 pin converters, copied the partitions, and was off! The only little snages were that I didn't fully plug in the new drive ("No operating systm detected" error) and I needed to put GRUB back on the master boot record. Upon doing that, everything was peachy.

Under Linux, I really wanted Mozilla 1.2.1, so that I could block HTML e-mail from requesting images from remote servers (see Web Bugs), but the stable Debian distribution only has version 1.0. So I took a leap and installed unstable. Tastes great and less filling. Someday, I'll opine about my Linux issues, but I have to get to work now. I have to find out what is killing the performance of my XSLTs.

I'm going to visit my completely-focused sister this weekend, to have a brainstorming session on future work. Anyone ever tried something like that?