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August 9, 2007
Building a New Machine
I simply refuse to shell out the $39 for the damn Belkin "laplink" cable - what a rip off! Cables are substantially overpriced to begin with, but $39 for a double end USB with a chip in the middle? Meh! That's right! Meh!
So I've doing file transfers the semi old-fashioned way - over the network. Though I neglected to bring home ethernet cables yesterday so I did some file transfers over the wifi. Very, very, very slow... I was going to use my external hard drive that I've had for a while. But it...um...died, it would seem. Hard drives aren't supposed to click, right? Fortunately it was just a backup device so no real harm done there - just an annoyance. Since it's an enclosure anyways, perhaps I'll just go buy a new HDD a stick it in there - would be somewhat logical for the stuff I need to backup.
My latest dilemma is stickering - as those of you who know me know, I have put stickers on my laptop for personalization AND to make sure no jerk runs off with my laptop when I'm going through airport security. But this computer is so...pretty. It's really really pretty. I'm torn!
Posted by MikeSager at August 9, 2007 8:12 AM
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i only have two stickers on mine (one from an apple, one from a banana) and they're on the inside. i've kept the outside as clean as the day i got it so far. the only thing i've considered is one of those "skin" things, but i haven't been able to get myself to do it.
Posted by: Nix Smith at August 9, 2007 10:08 AM
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