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Denise ([staff profile] denise) wrote2009-05-27 04:51 am
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things that suck

* discovering that your laptop has suddenly decided to be a very expensive paperweight

(Almost positive that it just needs an OS reinstall, but nobody in the house has any OSX 10.4 install disks with them. Grarrrgh.)
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+1

[personal profile] zvi 2009-05-27 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, if anyone has a spare CD-R, you can run a LiveCD of Linux until you can get back to your OS disks. Or, if there's a spare 8 gig flash drive lying around, (and somebody running ubuntu), you can run LiveUSB and have the ability to save things while you work. :)
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Re: +1

[personal profile] siliconshaman 2009-05-27 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Me, I went with the second route...
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