Shuffle the data around
The (pair of) new hard drives are now installed. One was an easy job; just put the drive in the bay and format as additional space. Piece of cake.
Machine number two received a custom install, if you will. The original configuration of 10/10/10/45 GB is now a 30/45/115/110 GB machine, since the new drive was only 250 GB in name, not in fact. An interesting copy and reformat shell game, that took a part of the afternoon but leaves our DVD machine with enough space to handle the large videodata sets we produce each year at a local school.
I’m also going to profit from all the additional space to get some ebooks off the laptop, so I can “breathe” a little easier too.
This afternoon I watched a fifteen minute video from the CBC archives, showing footage of Alex Campbell and Walter R Shaw on the day of the infamous by-election of 1966. In PEI, politics has a certain colourfulness, and the tied provincial election was broken with a run-off in the riding of First Kings, placing Bruce Stewart, Keith MacKenzie, Peter MacAulay and Daniel MacDonald into a contest that has since borne as a slogan “Pave it or pension it”. A delightful time travel experience.
