Another handy thing you can do is to get an external drive enclosure (USB or Firewire if you have it.) and put your old HD in that and plug it into a usb port.
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DCJensen - Oct 10, 2005 2:39:47 pm PDT #4886 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Sean K - Oct 10, 2005 2:51:33 pm PDT #4887 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I often find myself trying to mouse over from a PC monitor to the iBook screen.
During my hard drive nastiness recently, I would use my gf's iBook to surf the net while working on rehabilitating my PC, and I would frequently get confused and irritated when a pointer wasn't working or a keyboard command was not responding, before finally realizing I was attempting said commands on the wrong input device.
It would sometimes even take me quite a while to figure out the the mouse could not make the iBook pointer work, or that the track pad wasn't connected to the PC.
DCJensen - Oct 10, 2005 3:36:56 pm PDT #4888 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
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Dana - Oct 10, 2005 4:29:07 pm PDT #4889 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, new and exciting problem.
My mother's chorus has a logo. It was created so long ago that there isn't a digital version of the logo. The copies we have aren't a very high resolution.
How can we create a high-quality, high-resolution copy of this logo? Is the only option to get someone to recreate it? If so, how is that done?
Wolfram - Oct 10, 2005 4:33:28 pm PDT #4890 of 10003
Visilurking
This may seem somewhat low-tech, but couldn't you scan it on high dpi, and convert it?
Dana - Oct 10, 2005 4:35:45 pm PDT #4891 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I don't know. I know she has a business card, but that's a pretty small image to start with. And I don't know enough about graphic design to know what the requirements are.
Wolfram - Oct 10, 2005 4:53:51 pm PDT #4892 of 10003
Visilurking
Me neither. I suppose you could make it a bmp, then blow it up, then repixellate it to smooth it out or something. In theory.
DXMachina - Oct 10, 2005 5:42:08 pm PDT #4893 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Your best shot I think would be to do as Wolfram suggests. Scan what you have at as high a resolution as possible, then blow it up. It probably won't look great, but it might be easier to touch it up rather than starting from scratch. At worst, you can use it as a template to recreate it.
§ ita § - Oct 10, 2005 5:45:23 pm PDT #4894 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Depending on the logo, it may be possible to redraw it, using the scan as a guide, and working on layers above it -- either using your graphic app's trace function, or quasi-vector functionality, which many have these days.
Deena - Oct 10, 2005 6:21:12 pm PDT #4895 of 10003
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Dana, I wouldn't mind trying to recreate it if you could scan it in and e-mail it to me. I've done some similar work before and found it fun.