You want irony? I’ll give you irony.
Steve Safran October 5th, 2006
A real case of irony: I needed to install a backup drive for my laptop. Too much valuable information. Needed backup badly. Installed the software disc for the drive. Crash. What’s worse is that the disc is stuck in the drive, so I can’t even boot into the OS from the system disc. That, Alanis, is the true meaning of irony.
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1. Anonymous | October 5th, 2006 at 6:30 am
the nfl works in stra-a-a-a-nge ways.
2. Steve Safran | October 5th, 2006 at 6:38 am
Oooh. I hadn’t even thought of that.
3. david johnson | October 5th, 2006 at 8:36 am
further… you buy an external harddrive to backup all your important stuff. external harddrive goes into mechanical failure two days after all the stuff is copied. comedy.
4. Anonymous | October 5th, 2006 at 9:47 am
There is almost alwalys a mechanical release for drives. It is usually a small hole in the front. Stick a straightend paper clip in it.
5. Safran | October 5th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Tried that. We’re talking a slot load and we’re talking really frickin’ stuck.
6. Charlie Sierra | October 5th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
In the BIOS setup you’ll have the option to select “Boot from USB Disk”, and that will solve your problem.
To put an OS on a USB stick, use DSL (damnsmalllinux.com) or Knoppix.
7. Lost Remote TV Blog&hellip | October 10th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
[...] My MacBook Pro crashed this week in the Great Irony Bug of 2006, so I’ve been reinstalling the software. No problem there. And with my music and videos safely backed up on my iPod, it should have been an easy restore process. But of course, thanks to DRM, that’s not so. Apple makes restoring music easy - if you bought it from iTunes Music Store. If it’s your own stuff - there’s no way to re-import it back to your computer. So I searched “iPod rip” and sure enough, there was a nifty little program called “iPodRip.” (A lesson there in Google keywords, my friends.) It easily opened the “hidden” folders on my iPod, transferred my songs and videos back onto the computer, and synched up everything nicely. Alert the RIAA and MPAA: I have just stolen 1,844 songs and videos from myself. For every software barrier there is a software tank. [...]
8. MOJO | January 18th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Wow, thanks for the excellent information!
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