hard drive surgery

I recently had to do a wee bit of hard drive replacement surgery on my venerable powerbook g4 400MHz which has served me well for quite some time. Unfortunatly, the 10G drive that it came with has been filled with various amounts of junk almost since I had the thing installed... originally I had left OS 9 on the thing, but as I almost exclusively use Debian these days, my original partitioning scheme was leaving me with little choice but to completely replace the drive.

I settled on a 30G Hitachi drive (used to be IBM) which I had shipped to me along with a FW enclosure so I could easily dd the data back and forth from the current drive to the it's replacement. Unfortunatly, it took a bit for the FW enclosure to get drop shipped from whoever made the silly thing, and so I was sitting staring at a nice 30G drive with no way to install it. The installation went pretty smoothly, and as I type this, the drive is purring away inside the laptop. It's way quieter than the previous drive (even though I thought the previous drive was really quiet compared to the others I've used previously.)

Posted
buried in books
Those of you who know me know that I have a penchant for reading lots and lots of books... most of the time I read stuff from the library, but I'm starting to have a relatively substantial collection of physical books of my own. Today I finally got around to putting in some shelving to handle some of the books that have been sitting around everywhere. Unfortunatly, I still need to get bookends to handle the rest of them, but at least its a start towards getting things slightly better organized in my room.
Posted