My lovely Macbook Pro has been acting a bit erratic, recently and one of the concerns I had about was the decreasing amount of space on my hard drive so after reading ExtremeTech's awesome step-by-step guide numerous times and popped down to maplins and bought myself a new 2.5" 320BG sata drive and some torx screwdrivers and set about some minor laptop surgery. The fact that I'm now writing this blog post on said machine is testament to the good people at ExtremeTech and their awesomely well written guide, but why it's taken so long for me to update my blog is down to the odd behaviour of Maxtor.
I use Time Machine (as all good Mac people do) because it works and is amazingly easy to use - it's even part of Mac Os X's installer package (since 10.5 onwards) so when you're doing what what I was doing it's real easy to restore your Mac to where it was before whatever has caused you to do the restore. I don't use Time Capsule because, well, I'm not made of money and to be honest any external drive will do, so I use a 1TB Maxtor usb external drive for Time Machine.
After I'd installed the new hard drive, I popped in the OsX 10.5 installer and chose "Restore sytem from Time Machine" option from the Utilities menu and it found the Time Machine and my last full back up and set it off running. And waited. 12 hours later it was still stating restoring (with the blue barber shop poll twirling away). "Never mind" I thought, "be patient; this is a system restore on the same machine you're restoring on to , using a CD restore boot - this might take a while. 24 hours later, still nothing. Still whirring away. "Be patient" I mantra'd. 48 hours later and I think my patience was misplaced, so I cancel the restore and think what could be causing the failure of the restore.
Just for shits and giggles I decided to swap out the unmarked cable that Maxtor supplied with drive for a Amazon Basics marked USB 2.0 cable and started again. In a few minutes we'd progressed passed the barber poll and on to a timed status bar that happily told me 4 hours, and lo! 4 hours later I've got my machine back. I'm in complete bafflement why Maxtor woudl supply an (apparantly) usb 1 cable with a usb2 1Tb drive and if you want a moral to take away from this it's: If in doubt - check your cables. :)
So here's what you've been missing: 3 sets, the first from the welcome return of MondayHatesYou, the one day a week Second Life club/website that's here to make that return to the grindstone a whole lot better for you. I opted for (no suprises here) a future garage set and I'm pretty happy how it turned out:
Tracklisting
Sepalcure - Inside
Sepalcure - Every Day of my life
Alcosta Blvd - Deep
Julio Bashmore - Around
Kidkanevil - The floating world (Eliphino rmx)
FaltyDL - To London
Midland - Bring Joy
Pearson Sound - Wad
George Fitzgerald - Painted Jezebel
Chechen - Syberia
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP
Four Tet - Love Cry (Joy Orbison remix)
Kasrave vs Joy Orbison
Kelly Dean - Contagious
DJ Madd - Arpz 3000
XXXY - Rain (Jack Sparrow rmx)
Jack Sparrow - Loveless
Julio Bashmore - Footsteppin'
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
Live at Monday Hates You 20110321 by machv
Then there's Back to Mine, 20110323 (which my mac was beachballing through, making actually djing really hard work hence me upgrading the hard drive). That Tanka EP you can get from here: http://tanka.bandcamp.com/album/patterns-break-ep
Tracklisting
Tanka - Step(s)
Nicolas Jaar - Spectors of the Future
Hammock - Stranded Under a Helpless Sky
Radiohead - Morning Mr Magpie
The Books - A Cold Freezing Night
Working for a Nuclear Free City - A black square with four yellow stars
Asa - Sweeter Things
Brackles & Shortstuff - Broken Harp
Alcost Blvd - DMZ Chill
Apox - Hokaido
Crucial Cuts - Time
Redifine - Love N Learn
Son!ka - Bright Light
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ventriloquizzing
Appleblim & Ramadanman - Sous le Sable
George Fitzgerald - Don't You (SCB remix)
Noraj Cue - Homesick
FaltyDL - St Marks (Cosmin TRG remix)
BTM20110323 by machv
And lastly BTM20110330, which I'm proud to say doesn't feature any garage or dubstep at all; it's been a while that I've managed to do that. It probably won't last, but hey - it makes me happy. :)
Tracklisting
Mordant Music - Inn Ohm The Lake
Hammock - Birds Flying in Sequence
Yimino - Bintliptick
Hiatus - Save yourself
Jam Baxter - BarrelEyeSpookFish
Wagon Christ - King's Lynn
Wisp - Library Grey
Penfold Plum - Cagney Driver
Working for a Nuclear Free City - B.A.R.R.Y.
Radiohead - Bloom
Holy Fuck - Bontempi Latin
Fujiya & Miyagi - Cat Got Your Tongue
Chandarit Singh - Raga Bairagi
8Bitch - Astarte
Glasser - Tremel
School of Seven Bells - ILU
FaltyDL - All in the place
Daniel Masolo - Ritmo Especial
Yoshinori Sunahara - Unconscious Fragment
Gold Panda - Marriage (Baths remix)
The Field - Sun and Ice
BTM20110330 by machv