[DogParkList] Missing OS X already...UPDATE

[John Zaruba Jr]

I've got good news <insert auto insurance joke here>!

I'm typing this e-mail on my beloved G3 iBook!

I guess that spending two days baking in the back of my car cooked  
all the water out.

Yes, the first thing I did was backup my MLDX files...

<Insert picture of fat guy doing happy dance here>

73,

John AA2BN


On Aug 25, 2005, at 23:24, Craig Gaevert wrote:

> Very likely the hard drive is recoverable.  It is probably only the  
> motherboard that got fried (WAG).  You can get a USB enclosure that  
> you can stick the hard drive in and then just connect it to another  
> Mac, the drive mounts and you can recover ALL of the data.  May  
> have to run something like DiskWarrior to clean up the directory  
> but I'd be surprised if you can't get it all back.  I have one of  
> those enclosures and would be willing to send it to you John.   
> Email me off list if you would like to borrow it.  It should be  
> quite simple.
>
> Craig Gaevert
> kg6the
> cgarch at sonic.net
>
> On Aug 25, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Don Agro wrote:
>
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> On 25-Aug-05, at 10:51 PM, John Zaruba Jr wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I had a major disaster two days ago with my G3 iBook. I spilled a  
>>> cup of
>>> water on the keyboard of the iBook, and everyone can visualize the
>>> results :-(
>>>
>>
>> Ouch !
>>
>>
>>> I had an old PC sitting elsewhere in my basement, awaiting disposal,
>>> that I have running to help me limp along. I installed Debian  
>>> Linux on
>>> it, and boy do I miss OS X. Getting everything installed and  
>>> configured
>>> has been a full time job on top of my full time job. I also  
>>> violated the
>>> cardinal rule of computing, namely backup,backup, backup. I lost  
>>> all my
>>> Dog Park apps (replaceable) but I lost my radio logs  
>>> (irreplaceable). If
>>> you have .Mac, make sure you copy your Mac Logger DX log to your  
>>> iDisk,
>>> like I did not.
>>>
>>
>> The data on the HD may be recoverable even if the iBook is not.  
>> Small comfort I know, but your personal data is the hardest to  
>> replace. I think Myles (N2EHG) recently had a HD disaster due to  
>> lightning - he may have some advice on HD data recovery.
>>
>>
>> 73 Don Agro VE3VRW
>>
>> D o g   P a r k   S o f t w a r e   L t d .
>>
>> email: dagro at dogparksoftware.com
>>   www: http://www.dogparksoftware.com
>>     iChat AV:dogpark at mac.com
>>
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