Thanks , Lee and Ward for the enlightenment and for that interesting info on the people making the "Lord of the Rings" What do you know! - I guess I shall pursue this iPod as hard disk idea, since i shall never fill it all with music. Now where do I find this bootable Mac OS X install? And how much might that cost me? And I love to be fretting!. Marta On Apr 17, 2005, at 19:20, Lee Larson wrote:
> On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Marta Edie PB fretted: > >> I don't quite get you. I have this big --- iPod from you and a Bose >> Player , and I thought there would be plenty of room on the iPod to >> put the hard drive on it, not the documents etc, because I save them >> on iDisk and CDs.-- Removable hard disk storage? I thought all i had >> to do would be clicking the button to use part of theiPod as Hard >> disk > > The iPod is a fine external Firewire drive, if you have enough space > on it. I have mine set up with a bootable Mac OS X install so that I > can use it to get a machine running, if the operating system on that > machine goes down. I also use it to carry big files between my home > and my office. I do not use the iPod for backups because backups are > saved on my Linux machine. > > By the way, when they were making The Lord of the Rings movies, they > used iPods to move the work around between New Zealand, where the > special effects were crunched, and London, where Peter Jackson, the > director, spent a lot of time. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be April 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
