Comments on: Never Say Never http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/07/never-say-never.html The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: adam http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/07/never-say-never.html/comment-page-1#comment-2342 adam Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:20:35 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1801#comment-2342 Eric--I didn't say it was hard work, only more work than simply booting, or even holding down apple-T Eric–I didn’t say it was hard work, only more work than simply booting, or even holding down apple-T

]]> By: Eric Eisenhart http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/07/never-say-never.html/comment-page-1#comment-2341 Eric Eisenhart Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:54:31 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1801#comment-2341 <blockquote>Taking hard drives out of laptops and copying data is a bunch of work.</blockquote> Depends on the laptop, but taking a hard drive out of a laptop, putting into an external USB enclosure ($25-$55) designed for exactly this use, plugging the USB cable in and dragging some files across is often very easy. Might not even need a screwdriver. For more advanced users you might make it read-only so that file access times don't get updated. I know plenty of people that have basically done exactly that when retiring an old laptop in the process of upgrading to a new one. Or you could boot off the CD drive; a live linux or live windows disc is easy enough to get, then copy stuff over the network... Knoppix, for instance, defaults to read-only when doing this, so file access times wouldn't change.

Taking hard drives out of laptops and copying data is a bunch of work.

Depends on the laptop, but taking a hard drive out of a laptop, putting into an external USB enclosure ($25-$55) designed for exactly this use, plugging the USB cable in and dragging some files across is often very easy. Might not even need a screwdriver. For more advanced users you might make it read-only so that file access times don’t get updated.
I know plenty of people that have basically done exactly that when retiring an old laptop in the process of upgrading to a new one.
Or you could boot off the CD drive; a live linux or live windows disc is easy enough to get, then copy stuff over the network… Knoppix, for instance, defaults to read-only when doing this, so file access times wouldn’t change.

]]> By: Alex Hutton http://emergentchaos.com/archives/2006/07/never-say-never.html/comment-page-1#comment-2340 Alex Hutton Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:56:40 +0000 http://emergentchaos.com/?p=1801#comment-2340 You've been a MicroSerf for all of, what, two weeks now and you're already bashing Apple? ;) You’ve been a MicroSerf for all of, what, two weeks now and you’re already bashing Apple?
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