Monthly Archives: January 2006

Install OSX without DVD over Firewire

2006-01-20 –

Goal is to install OS 10.4 Tiger from DVD on an older apple laptop that lacks a dvd drive. We don’t have an external firewire DVD enclosure. However, all macs with firewire can emulate an external harddrive enclosure, so we’ll install to that. We just need someone else’s dvd-equipped macmini to do the install.
Firstly, connect [...]

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Ubuntu dist-upgrade

2006-01-17 –

Quoth the Shannon: apt-get dist-upgrade
An lo, there was a might knashing of discs and flickering of lights! And in the middle of it all sat a cute geek girl, with the mightist grin you ever did see.
Twas then that she turned, and said unto me, that she was delighted for fun in her typing. And [...]

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Story of an iBook

2006-01-16 –

I’ve always wanted an Apple laptop, since days of yore. Their stylish presence and attention to minute detail commanded my attention. It was lust at first sight, in the department store window. Me in my worn jeans, she in her warm metalic chassis and expensive pricetag.
At long last, I’ve gotten an iBook of my own. [...]

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Livejournal Exodus

2006-01-01 –

I’ve had a livejournal account for a long time now. Recently it’s just been a mirror of my wordpress blog. So, at long last, the codepoetica livejournal account is going away. I’m not.

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