Well, still no luck yet. I’ve backed up my data and am going to reinstall the OS. Here’s what I tried to do:
1. Boot from install disc and run disk utilities. No luck.
2. Use gParted to create a partition. This worked, but boot camp still refused to work and disk utilities refused to let me merge the two partitions.
Maybe it’s not that OSX is dumb. Maybe this really is a feature, you know, to prevent people from installing Windows on their laptops. Maybe Apple makes its own hardware and so closely guards the secrets because the hardware is PSYCHIC and can recognize intentions. “Detecting WINDOWS and LINUX intentions… throw errors, throw errors!!”
I was THIS close to installing ubuntu over OSX instead. Still can’t think of a good reason not to (except I only had Kubuntu 6.10 instead of 9.10 at home).
UPDATE: I reinstalled Snow Leopard after erasing the drive. Eagerly opened up Boot Camp only to find the increasingly frustrating, “Some Files Could Not Be Moved” error. You’ve sealed your fate, Snow Leopard. Your territory is about to get a lot smaller. Make way for a Karmic Koala! and his frenemy, Windows, courtesy of rEFIt.
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130024 (first read on the Lede Blog at nytimes.com)
I’ll summarize: Pat Robertson claims that the earthquake, which most people believe to be a seismic event that happened because Haiti is located on a fault line, is in fact the result of God punishing them for making a pact with the devil. Oh yes. I kid …
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Tony’s ok!! :) As if some earthquake could take him unawares… psh.
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The lie that is “It Just works!” has struck again. No disk defrag utilities are shipped with OSX because, you know, the Mac OS is brilliant enough to perform its own optimizations in such a way that you don’t have to defrag. Why should the user ever need to manually do such a thing? It’s …
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I spent a lot more time than usual this year in Palo Alto over winter break because my cousin was visiting and Grace came for a second visit. (Personally, I think Grace should just give up the East Coast and move over here so she can eat yogurt and good asian food all the time…) …
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Just last night, I was enlightened to the existence of some unusual products and the hilarious reviews garnered. I believe it is my duty to the world to archive the links here on this blog, as I find myself increasingly less motivated to write about personal stuff.
We’ll start with the Cloverdale Fresh Rabbit. I’m …
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Time flies.
Grace & Anita came visit for a few days. Grace will be back to spend Christmas with me in sunny California.
The car’s pretty neat. I’ve been getting really good mileage, like consistently close to 50mpg… Drove to Palo Alto and back with a few trips to Sacramento airport from Davis on one …
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It’s at the dealership. My dad will drive it around for a week before I retrieve it and make the drive back home to Davis… YAY!!!!
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Oh yes, so this is sort of old news, but Toyota has issued a recall for something like 38 million vehicles because they contain floor mats which could jam the accelerator and lead to fatal crashes. The 2010 Prius is not in that list, but I’m paranoid enough to think that that’s merely because not …
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Ferrero Rocher Gelato.
(Ghiradelli Chocolate Festival in SF. Pic taken by Francis, whose gelato cone I’ve hijacked.)
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