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It is 5:14 in the morning and I can’t stop poking at this old ibook. It was given to me to fix by a friend and I am doing my damndest to make it work again. So kernel panics galore- this is basically when a mac does the equivalent of a windows blue screen of death… it means something pretty significant is screwed up in the hardware. I thought it had to do with the hard drive as the panics would happen anytime I tried to install leopard on the machine it would get 15% into the install and kernel panic on me… So I told the guy maybe it’s the hard drive so he went out and bought a pimporific 250gd ATA hard drive from newegg. I took his ibook completely apart ala this article. After i got it all pieced back together I turned it on and it powered on! This is always the first test to be done on any electronic device after an intense tear down. But alas upon attempting the Mac OSX Leopard install… kernel panics. So I tried a PRAM reset… The magic Apple-option-p-r hold down after restart trick and…

it worked a little bit longer but still now dice.

Technology does not like me much right now. I give up for the night. Tomorrow… well today really i do vjing for The Stevedore at The Skylark in west Seattle. If you don’t have something else to do be there it should be a good show!

more video goodness for this rather geeky post… it is even weirder than the previous attached video. This one was me playing with a video glitch in a bad rip of the Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto… to quite beautiful results I think.

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