MacBook Pro Leopard upgrade problem

Posted in Techie Stuff by admin on the December 17th, 2007

Nice one, upgraded to Mac OS X Leopard recently. All very snazzy and apple like, icons flying from this angle, little transitions everywhere. Recently though, when I go to type I get a big fat nothing on the screen. Theres more info here at apple insider about the mysterious unresponsive keyboard problem.



Hard disk failure

Posted in Techie Stuff,Work by admin on the December 8th, 2007

My hard drive at work crapped out on Tuesday, sonofab****

Got onto the oh so nice people at Dell, excellent customer service. Drive had more errors than a dyslexic at a spelling bee. Managed to get it booted up again though and got some stuff off it. Then Dell sent out a replacement drive, nice.

Learned a valuable lesson. The two most important locations to back up if you use Thunderbird and Firefox:

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\

&

C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\

Copied these back onto my newly restored system and with ten minutes I had all my e-mails and internet settings back up :-)