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Sunday, May 7, 2006, 16:12
Section: Geek

Well, in Microsoft’s continuing efforts to get me to buy a dual-boot Macintosh set-up, my hard drive has developed serious problems over the weekend, and each time I run chkdsk and restart the computer, more, not fewer problems occur. I’m now told that c: is corrupt or unreadable, which likely means the end of the road, as an amateur fix-it guy. Tomorrow, I’ll be taking in my computer to a local shop and getting a new master hard drive installed, with Windows, and seeing what, if anything, can be transferred off this machine to that.

Since Firefox is gone now, World of Warcraft is gone now, my personal information for Thunderbird is gone now, it seems prudent to back up (online, here) my list of podcasts now while I still can. (As opposed to the list of Firefox plug-ins which I’m going to just have to remember on my own once the new hard drive is installed. Argh, and the WoW mods as well.)

So here’s the current list:

Put those addresses into iTunes or Juice (or even TiVo, if you’re really ambitious) to get the feeds and see, well, hear what I listen to regularly.

  • In other it’s-good-to-have-a-hard-copy news, the first season of Supernatural is coming to DVD on September 5. Awesome.
  • It’s a trick getting your iPod’s music back onto a new hard drive — it’s not what iTunes wants to do by any means. Luckily, there’s all sorts of third party programs that will do it. I used PodUtil. It seems to have missed most of the artists whose names start with any letter before D, strangely, but I’m hoping the files got copied over somewhere.

7 Comments »

  1. “Ebert & Roeper”. You’re kidding me, right? You, a bastion of critical thought when it comes to media, get a podcast from those two nimrods?

    Please tell me you lost a bet.

    John

    Comment by John — May 8, 2006 @ 8:07

  2. I believe in the Marketplace of Ideas. They also cover more movies at a go than KCRW does on a weekly basis. Also, my boy over at Rolling Stone doesn’t do a movie review podcast that I know of, and that site is way too fugly to check out on a regular basis.

    Comment by Beau — May 8, 2006 @ 9:10

  3. You had me at “… Ideas”. You really should be a press secretary.

    J

    Comment by John — May 8, 2006 @ 21:49

  4. What a vicious thing to say.

    Comment by Beau — May 8, 2006 @ 22:00

  5. OK, OK, Communications Director…

    At least I didn’t say you should work for Fox News.

    John

    Comment by John — May 9, 2006 @ 13:20

  6. If you aren’t doing heavy media work (photoshop/fcp/etc..), I’d get a dual processor mac mini and a kvm switch. Assuming your old system had 80gigs of space, you could get an off-the-hself mac mini for $799.00. Add on $150.00 for XP, $25 for a kvm switch, and you’ve got a top of the line computer you can network into your existing system for less than a grand. The minis are pretty nifty computers, too–they even come with a remote control! My bet would be it could handle gaming as well (or better) than your old system. The KVM is assuming you want to keep the old system around for some reason–maybe you’ve got a lot of software on it or some such.

    Comment by f. chong rutherford — May 10, 2006 @ 14:41

  7. The moment I get $975 in spending money … wait, I’m married, that’s never happening again.

    Comment by Beau — May 10, 2006 @ 18:56

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