Last week Brenda came into work with her old Windows Vista HP Laptop. She said the fan was making noise and wouldn't stay running a long time. Dr. Frank Tremblay and I were looking it over and discovered, it was not the fan but the HDD grinding. (O.O) Frank pulled the HDD and told her she can buy a new one on payday, they only run about $50. Meanwhile she needed to get files off the old HDD so we popped it into one of the Debian Linux boxes here at the office.
Meanwhile at lunch, I went home and remembered I had my older broken PS3 with a 60GB HDD in the closet. I grabbed it and my CD of Kubuntu 14.04 and headed back to work. At the clinic, I installed the Linux to her temporary HDD and Frank transferred her files via a thumb drive. She was very happy. She hasn't bought a new HDD just yet, but I told her I would be happy to help with that too. Her old one is only a 250 GB I explained they now sell 1000GB (called Terrabyte drives) for about $50.
Two nerdy doctors, one old PS3, and Kubuntu saves the day! (^.^)
Meanwhile at lunch, I went home and remembered I had my older broken PS3 with a 60GB HDD in the closet. I grabbed it and my CD of Kubuntu 14.04 and headed back to work. At the clinic, I installed the Linux to her temporary HDD and Frank transferred her files via a thumb drive. She was very happy. She hasn't bought a new HDD just yet, but I told her I would be happy to help with that too. Her old one is only a 250 GB I explained they now sell 1000GB (called Terrabyte drives) for about $50.
Two nerdy doctors, one old PS3, and Kubuntu saves the day! (^.^)
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