Save my ibook

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:57:23 +0200

I've installed ubuntu on my old ibook yesterday. It's been quite simple, I must say, I like the live-system / install thing they've got.

So, installation went on and, even if slow, eventually completed. This morning, I opened the ibook and tried to boot. Did not work.

I waited several hours and tried to boot. Did not work, either. Ever since I've got that ibook, it has this one single defect: sometimes, maybe once every first or second month, the harddisk does not start up. I know that I should have reported this back to Apple right after I noticed it the first time, within the guaranty - but that's long ago.

Jan told me, he'd have a spare laptop harddisk wondering whether it'd fit into a mac. I guessed that it did, so we decided to risk the operation (in the true sense of the word) and started googling around on how to replace a disk in an ibook.

Right the first result in google did match our needs - a recipe with explanation and pictures:) Opening an ibook basically means finding every screw and searching a suitable screwdriver for it. At the end of the opening progress, we'd have around twenty screws screwed out of the ibook - each of one group of at least four sizes and forms. Our reference website did mention this and proposed to draw pictures with where which screw came from - a hint, we deliberately had disregarded:)

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nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:22:37 +0100

While being on a trip to Munich last weekend, walking around downtown Timm, Ruben and me passed a cafe with a pretty modern wall screen probably for news. At that time, it was broken:

American german prudes

nospam@example.com (Alex Kiesel) — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:53:54 +0200

While having breakfast I was reading an article about Janet Jacksons "nipplegate affair" in Sterling Hughes' Weblog.

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