Willow: Something evil-crashed to earth in this. Then it broke out and slithered away to do badness. Giles: Well, in all fairness, we don't really know about the "slithered" part. Anya: No, no, I'm sure it frisked about like a fluffy lamb.

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Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 7:39:53 am PDT #5904 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

DAMMIT!

I had transfered my iTunes over from my old computer, and had successfully synced the iPhone with the new computer. Everything was copacetic.

I had decided this morning to try and switch my contacts and calendar over.

There were some advanced choices when I told iTunes to sync calendar and contacts -- I could sync stuff, but also tell it not to overwrite the old information.

Well.... I told it not to overwrite my old contact information, but it did anyway, which totally blew away all the old contact information on the phone.

Now I have nothing in there.

DAMMIT!

(I think it's still salvageable, in that the info is still in my old address book, and I can probably just migrate that over, but still... annoying.


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 8:00:07 am PDT #5905 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And in non-annoyed posting:

Thanks for that link, Daniel! Awesomeness!

(Of course, my own caveat emptor -- if these drives are so cheap, is there a reason? Do they come from shipments that were dropped from a height or something?)


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 8:15:44 am PDT #5906 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Hat trick --

The MacBook Pro takes SATA internal hard drives, yes?


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 8:18:25 am PDT #5907 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

And in continued Sean Takes Over the Tech Thread news....

I'm don't understand why this 32Gb drive costs $700.


Tom Scola - Apr 27, 2008 8:19:44 am PDT #5908 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

It's a solid-state drive, Sean. It uses flash memory instead of a moving disk.


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 8:21:06 am PDT #5909 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

AHA! Thanks, Scola.


Jon B. - Apr 27, 2008 9:20:11 am PDT #5910 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

if these drives are so cheap, is there a reason?

I was going to say that the prices you originally quoted

a Western Digital 320Gb 8Mb cache 5,400 rpm drive for $140, or a Seagate 200Gb 16Mb cache 7,200 rpm drive for $125.
were rather expensive.


Sean K - Apr 27, 2008 9:25:47 am PDT #5911 of 25501
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

This is why I come to you people first.


Vortex - Apr 27, 2008 2:46:14 pm PDT #5912 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

firefox eats a lot of memory. maybe that has something to do with it?

it's not a problem with my old laptop, which still works. maybe I should upgrade firefox. it keeps asking me.


DCJensen - Apr 27, 2008 6:10:57 pm PDT #5913 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

Anyone heard much about this? Good? Bad? Vapor?

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