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le_bebna_kamni

Miscellany and Updates

Jul 04, 2010 09:10

First things first: thanks to help from several generous people, I now have the funds to pay for classes! I can still use a job here and there to help cover semester expenses, but for right now I'm focused on knowledgy-type things. :D

( Hardware joys and OS woes... )

linux, windows, mac

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UPDATE le_bebna_kamni November 25 2010, 14:41:55 UTC

I tried downloading the drivers from Apple, but it kept complaining that I needed a previous version of BootCamp already installed; I tried downloading drivers from torrents, but they seemed to be corrupted in some way, and I ended up having to reinstall Windows.

Finally I realized that disks usually only become damaged during insertion/removal. Solution: take my DVD drive apart, put in the DVD, pray it doesn't try to spit the disk out because of [what I suspect to be DRM] bugs in Apple's DVD drives for my laptop; install the drivers; take the drive apart again and remove the DVD.

Of course, *after* I got the drivers installed, I had a friend offer to pay me an external hard drive in exchange for technical support. lol