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Backup your Powerbook on your iPod Did you know you can install OS X on your iPod and use it as your hard drive? Makes me wish I'd bought the 30 GB version.

backing up and restoring on my box were really simple. i plugged in my 30GB ipod and installed os x on it (which went smoothly, i just selected it as the drive to install to when the installer asked me). then with a few points and clicks, i got disk copy to create an image of my powerbook's drive and save it to my ipod. click, click, reboot while holding down "T" (to boot firewire target mode) -- instead of your laptop's drive whirring you'll hear the ipod happily clicking away. perfect. when booted, format your laptop's drive, then expand out the image onto the notebook's drive, and voila.

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Good to know - now if I could just figure out how to use Apple's "Backup" program to backup to a network drive. Posted in Mac OS X at Jul 18 2003, 09:27:29 AM MDT 2 Comments

Weekend with Dad My pappy is flying in this afternoon, and it's looking to be a great weekend. Julie and Abbie headed to Florida yesterday for a friend's baby shower, so it's a "guys weekend." For Father's Day this year, I got us tickets to the Mile High Nationals (top fuel dragsters) on Sunday. It's a nice WT event, and being from Montana - we'll fit right in! ;-)

I'm picking him up from the airport this afternoon, and we're heading for the hills shortly after. We'll be camping and fishing tonight and tomorrow and I can't friggen wait. Like Dave and his Dad, both my dad and I can sit in front of our laptops for hours on end - so we're leaving them behind and getting out of dodge. Don't expect any updates until Sunday or Monday. Posted in General at Jul 18 2003, 08:43:59 AM MDT Add a Comment