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Instructions on How To Replace a Hard Drive in a Macbook A1181

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macbook_13_whiteSo a client of mine called me up asking me if I know how to replace a hard drive in a laptop.  Sure I do, so she brought me the laptop, and handed me a Apple Macbook A1181. Now I’m no mac tech, so I was kinda lost at first when it came to replacing the hard drive. But lucky for me, I found a PDF that outlines exactly how to do it, and holy sweetness its easy.

So i have attached the PDF for you to download so you too can replace your harddrive if you ever need to.

A couple of quick tips to add:

If you are installing a new harddrive, you might need to go into the Disk Utilities and “Erase” the hard drive. Erase it to MacOS Extended Journaled (unless you want to use one of the other options) and name the hard drive “Macintosh HDD.” You probably dont have to name it that, but thats what Apple does, so for consistancy I did the same thing.

disk-utility-02So to get to the Disk Utility, Boot off the OS disk by holding your C key as you power on the unit. Let it get to the welcome screen, and then go to menu on top, where the apple is, file, and so on. Under utilities, you will find the disk utility.

I had to do this to the hard drive before the OS would recognize it as a Destination to install the OS too. Before it wouldn’t detect the hard drive in there, so hopefully if you experience this too, now you know what to do.

Glamis Sand Dune Point of Interest (POI) with GPS

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So I was looking for a good place to gather all the GPS Coordinates for Glamis, the Imperial Sand Dune Recreation area. I found quite a bit of information about it, but no links to Google Earth KML files, so I created this resource area for it.  Click here to download ALL the POI’s I have for Glamis is one Google Earth Pack. (I will keep adding more from time to time, so check back.)

Roadrunner Campground
32°54’40.80″N   115° 7’0.60″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

All-American Canal
32°56’27.96″N   115° 9’24.85″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Gecko Road
32°57’58.20″N   115°10’13.80″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Cahuilla (Glamis) Ranger Station
32°58’25.12″N   115°10’22.32″W
Phone Number: (760)344-3919 - Subject to change with out notice!
Google Earth or Google Maps

Sand Drag Races
32°58’10.70″N   115°10’9.45″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Osborne Overlook
32°59’0.60″N   115° 7’57.60″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Competition Hill
32°59’5.02″N   115° 7’36.77″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Oldsmobile Hill
32°58’3.98″N   115° 6’24.97″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Brawley Slide
32°56’40.48″N   115° 4’50.35″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Lizard Hill
32°55’42.18″N   115° 4’4.76″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

China Wall
32°54’38.41″N   115° 2’14.00″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Glamis Flats
32°59’31.91″N   115° 4’46.78″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Glamis Beach Store
32°59’46.88″N   115° 4’21.05″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Wash Road
32°59’36.49″N   115° 3’53.46″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Boardmanville
32°59’8.28″N   115° 2’4.24″W
Google Earth or Google Maps

Download all the Point of Interests (POI’s)

See all these POI’s in Google Maps

Connect your Bluetooth Mouse to Ubuntu 7.04 Linux

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Logitech Bluetooth Mouse M-RBB93I have a Logitech M-RBB93 Bluetooth Mouse for my Dell Latitude D620. I just installed Ubuntu Feisty last night and was puzzled on how to connect my mouse to the computer. So with a little research on Ubuntu Forums, I found the answer. Its really pretty easy:

Go to your console and type in:

daniel@d620:~$ hcitool scan

Make sure your mouse is in pairing mode. For me, I had to push and hold the Reset button on my mouse for just over a second and a green light started blinking. Thats when I knew it was in paring mode.

So the command will search for any Bluetooth devices in paring mode.

Scanning …
00:XX:61:XX:F9:XX Bluetooth Travel Mouse

So here was hav, the device found with its MAC Address.

Now we need to have the computer pair with the device.

to do that type the following command (of course substituting for your MAC Address)

daniel@d620:~$ sudo hidd –connect 00:XX:61:XX:F9:XX

Now your Bluetooth mouse should work.

Going through that process every time you turn your computer on would be a major pain in the ass, so lets make it so it does it automatically. To do that type in this command:

sudo gedit /etc/default/bluetooth

Look for and replace

HIDD_ENABLED=0
# HIDD_OPTIONS=”-i AA:BB:CC:DD:EE –server”

with:

HIDD_ENABLED=1
HIDD_OPTIONS=”-i 00:XX:61:XX:F9:XX –server”

Save and close and now your mouse should connect automatically each time you use your computer.

=)