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This is not replacing a good backup, but I just found a neat utility for Mac, SMARTReporter, which reports your hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status so that you can hopefully know before it’s too late that your HD is on its way out.

I don’t know if it would have helped my on my previous crash, but I’m willing to give it a try, and hopefully it will save me next time, or even better, the indicator is going to stay green and nothing is going to happen.

I just figured out something which might have been obvious to everybody with a Mac but me, but as it took me a while, I thought I’d record it.

In order to use F1, F2, etc. as function keys on a PowerBook, which by default do special functions such as adjusting the brightness of the screen, one has to hit Fn+F1, Fn+F2, etc.

Now that I know it, the Fn key kinda hints it, but that wasn’t obvious to me.