Hard lessons

Part of the purpose of this blog is, at times, is that I want everyone to learn from my mistakes and screw ups. Here's a couple I did in ONE day. Tuesday felt like Monday!

New laptop screen.
The one I bought off Ebay arrived, I waited till I was in the right frame of mind, cleared the decks, rolled up the sleeves, put on the soft music and dove it. Followed the online step by steps, everything goes swimmingly.  Until I have to plug thew new screen in. The wire provided is about 1.5 inches TOO short. At first I thought maybe I need to re-run it different, or something but nope it's too short! Brad my friend with a soldering gun is gonna extend it, but I now I am skeptical if it will work. It might have been a $200 lesson in "don't do this out of your league" or " If it's too cheap on Ebay there IS a reason" Of couse I blasted an email off to the seller, and I can apply for a RMA to return it to San fran on my dime, wait another 10 days for the new one etc etc.. BLAH BLAH!... Let's hope the soldering works

The other eye opening lesson was in hard drive formatting. Having a 40 gig project to deliver I decide to load up a WD passport 160 HD. I knew it was going into a WIN only environment, and having problems with this before, I format the disc FAT32. Seems some windows OS"s have a 30bg limit on partitions, Mac's can't formate NTFS easily and Win machines can't read HTS, the mac format. So the client phones as says my disc doesn't work at all! Seems that when it comes to bigger hard drives, formating for compatibility on both platforms is REALLY difficult. This is going to be an issue as files sizes get larger, HD's more plentiful and Mac's living in a mix platform environment. I don't even know if I sloved this problem today, after hours of googling, a reformat and crossing my fingers

I'll update what happens next on both of these fun fun tech problems! remember when the biggest problem was crimping your 120 film when rolling in on stainless reels? Those were the days

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