Bilski Redux (with a touch of reflux)

Bilski Redux (with a touch of reflux)

By PJ

June 02 2009

Here, then, is Bilski's Petition as text. If you find any errors, it's because I did the whole thing, and then I dropped my laptop and it broke. So I did it again on another computer, but with a bad attitude...

07:09 AM EDT

Sorry to hear about your mishap with the laptop.

By kinrite

June 02 2009

It only takes a seconds inattention, and whoops.

07:52 AM EDT

Was it the Hard Drive that broke? If so, then replace with an SSD (faster the better).

By PJ

June 02 2009

No. It's the screen. It's white now. Nothing shows at all.

11:56 AM EDT

screen

By LocoYokel

June 02 2009

You might have knocked a cable loose, if so it should be an easy fix. If you did damage the display you can try hooking it up to an external monitor, at least long enough to back up the data and send it in for repair.

12:00 PM EDT

screen

By PJ [ http://tinyurl.com/noc97f ]

June 02 2009

What I did was use Firewire to grab everything. Butit's a big loss. Doing Groklaw requires that I have more than one, just because of moments like this, among other things.

I'll try to get it fixed, but laptops aren't as easy as a desktop PC.

12:05 PM EDT

Ubuntu (and other GNU/Linux) support Apple filesystems

By Anonymous

June 03 2009

Many GNU/Linux distributions now support Apple HFS+ (Extended HFS) filesystems
(even for writing). I regularly use an HFS+ USB disk between a Mac and my
Ubuntu system. The most irritating thing is actually the .DS_Store file that
Apple puts in every directory that I open in the Mac GUI (using a Terminal
windows avoids this annoyance).

01:37 PM EDT

My biggest problem with Mac HFS: Partitions

By Winter

June 03 2009

My biggest problem with Mac HFS+ is the lack of support for more than 1
partition on USB SSD.
(or did I do something really wrong?)

So every USB stick I have, even >4GB must be a single partition, and a single
file system. I have a 1TB USB external drive, and my Mac sees only the first
partition. Windows is even worse, as it cannot see beyond the first partition,
and does not see anything non-MS.

Linux has no problem with several partitions.

Rob

---
Some say the sun rises in the east, some say it rises in the west; the truth
lies probably somewhere in between.

01:43 PM EDT

My biggest problem with Mac HFS: Partitions

By: Anonymous

June 03 2009

It works ok for me. I used Disk Utility to initialize a 16 GB memory stick,
then in a terminal window I became root and unmount the UNTITLED volume, then
used pdisk to delete the UNTITLED volume and created two equal 8 GB partitions
USB-1 and USB-2. Quit pdisk; it asked if I wanted to initialize an unknown
drive, I said yes, then formatted the two new partitions (in Disk Utility, which
came up automatically). Ejected one partition and the other ejected as well,
removed the USB stick, re-inserted, both volumes show up. This is on a G4
running 10.4.11. Not sure how an Intel Mac would handle it...

07:52 PM EDT

My biggest problem with Mac HFS: Partitions

By PJ

June 03 2009

*now* you tell me, right after my laptop died.

: D

Seriously, that sounds so fun, I wish I could try it.

08:46 PM EDT