Stupid Mac Mini

The hard drive died in my mini this week, I ended up spending almost the entire day Sunday replacing it. The physical replacement took a couple of hours (not particularly difficult, just tedious getting around all the screws and crap), then the process of rebuilding and restoring took even longer than that. I couldn't get a decent rescue disk to boot on the Mini for some reason, so I ended up doing it the hard way: installed Linux fresh on it, then added the dump/restore utilities and moved the latest dumpfiles over to the O.S. disk, then booted on the live Ubuntu disk and did a full restore from there. While I was at it I updated the O.S. since it had been about a year since the last time I did any updates (when you have no KVM you tend to develop a "if it ain't broke..." kind of attitude).
Given the relatively low crunching power of the mini (and the even lower amount of power I require), it's probably
So, kind of a wasted day - after replacing the HD I made some stew. Clau and I have both been fighting various ailments since we got back from Brazil, plus we both packed on some serious pounds over there, so we're going for light soups.