How to eat your HD when installing Windows...

So, this week I learned an important lesson. How NOT to munch your HD when installing Windows with Boot Camp. Do not use an original XP Pro CD. It WILL eat your Mac partition. I realized this after I did this... twice... You really have to use a Service Pack 2 or 3 disk. Just thought I'd share my sad story with you guys... :P All of this started when my Windows 7 Upgrade decided that it wasn't valid, and you CAN'T JUST TYPE IN THE STUPID XP KEYCODE!! You have to wipe, and install XP, activate, then upgrade. That's when all this started... Oh boy...
Thank goodness for Time Machine...

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I Am So Nerdy

So, at work the other day, we got another dead iMac for parts from a client, the 24" one there on the right. So now we have ALL THREE sizes of white circa 2006 iMacs! 17", 20", and 24". I was so excited, I put them all next to each-other and took a picture. And yeah, I am nerdy :)

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Surgery... A La Mac

The other day at work, I had an aluminum iMac with a bad DVD drive  - Probably because the client tried sticking a miniCD into the drive... Anyways, before I put it all back together, I wanted to test the new DVD drive. This is what that looks like:

And for those interested, here's a breakdown of the components visible:

Anyways, I thought it was cool. :)

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