Comments on: Mingus and Ella http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:28:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Memorising Mingus - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-61265 Memorising Mingus - Asymptotia Fri, 06 Jul 2007 08:32:14 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-61265 [...] Just now I noticed to my horror that it was the 1st of September of last year that I intended to get around to repairing my G4 powerbook, at the time the main workhorse of my away-from-campus computer arsenal. There was an unexpected failure which I could not figure out the source of, and I managed to get it partly alive -alive enough to drag about 12 GB of data from the hard drive via booting it as a target disc of another mac, Ella. Well, I never sent it off as I was (1) thrown by the fact that I had no warranty or repair contract coverage on it, and so any repair would have to be paid for, and (2) in the middle of the semester - a really busy one - and so I did not really have that much time to devote to the issue. [...] [...] Just now I noticed to my horror that it was the 1st of September of last year that I intended to get around to repairing my G4 powerbook, at the time the main workhorse of my away-from-campus computer arsenal. There was an unexpected failure which I could not figure out the source of, and I managed to get it partly alive -alive enough to drag about 12 GB of data from the hard drive via booting it as a target disc of another mac, Ella. Well, I never sent it off as I was (1) thrown by the fact that I had no warranty or repair contract coverage on it, and so any repair would have to be paid for, and (2) in the middle of the semester - a really busy one - and so I did not really have that much time to devote to the issue. [...]

]]> By: Rebooting - Asymptotia http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-811 Rebooting - Asymptotia Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:53:54 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-811 [...] At about 12000 ft up a mountain, near the supremely beautiful Willow Lake (my destination… I’ll tell you about this and why I was doing it in a little while, now that I’ve managed to get the pictures off my ailing Mingus) my faithful companions of 14 years -my Asolo AFX 530s- decided to disintegrate on me. I’ve had those boots since 1992/3 when I started hiking and backpacking properly in the USA, doing some trips up from Princeton (where I was at the time) to the Adirondacks in upstate New York, occasionally disappearing into the wilderness there for a few days with just enough equipment to do the job reasonably comfortably. They’ve stuck with me through thick and thin all these years, and I’ve given them a lot of work to do, especially in the mountains in the Aspen area. [...] [...] At about 12000 ft up a mountain, near the supremely beautiful Willow Lake (my destination… I’ll tell you about this and why I was doing it in a little while, now that I’ve managed to get the pictures off my ailing Mingus) my faithful companions of 14 years -my Asolo AFX 530s- decided to disintegrate on me. I’ve had those boots since 1992/3 when I started hiking and backpacking properly in the USA, doing some trips up from Princeton (where I was at the time) to the Adirondacks in upstate New York, occasionally disappearing into the wilderness there for a few days with just enough equipment to do the job reasonably comfortably. They’ve stuck with me through thick and thin all these years, and I’ve given them a lot of work to do, especially in the mountains in the Aspen area. [...]

]]> By: Clifford http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-753 Clifford Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:54:47 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-753 Hi. Mingus started out as a Dell desktop PC a long time ago when i was in Kentucky. He then passed away and returned as a much higher form of life - a mac powerbook g4. -cvj Hi. Mingus started out as a Dell desktop PC a long time ago when i was in Kentucky. He then passed away and returned as a much higher form of life - a mac powerbook g4.

-cvj

]]> By: Rien http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-751 Rien Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:48:52 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-751 Hey, your compter is mingus too. That was my trusty old desktop, but now my wireless network has inherited the name. Hey, your compter is mingus too. That was my trusty old desktop, but now my wireless network has inherited the name.

]]> By: Moshe http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-745 Moshe Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:28:33 +0000 http://asymptotia.com/2006/09/01/mingus-and-ella/#comment-745 Hi Clifford, any hard drive can be used as external HD- just get HD "kit" or use some old external HD- the thing is modular, you can place any HD there and conncet it to a USB port, including the one you are trying to recover data from. Off to rename my laptop... Hi Clifford, any hard drive can be used as external HD- just get HD “kit” or use some old external HD- the thing is modular, you can place any HD there and conncet it to a USB port, including the one you are trying to recover data from.

Off to rename my laptop…

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