Carpet

So is anybody getting wall-to-wall (or similar area) carpet installed? Or have you had any installed recently? I need strips of carpet in the Seattle area, preferably north Seattle. (Where I can come get it, basically.) I'm looking for / talking about strips at least 1' wide and at least 8' long - the kinds of bits that installers slice off and then haul off to the dumpster. I've been calling carpet stores and they either sell these (for like $2/square foot!) or won't let me come pick them back out of their dumpsters. It's for the recording ministudio; apparently they're much better than blankets at sound dampening.

(I've also checked Craigslist, no obvious joy, I thought I'd try here.)

So. If you have anything, let me know? I will happily come haul it away from you. Thanks.

nnngh h8

Macbook dropped off: sucks to be me until next week. Or later. NNngh.

I've been working with kimo trying to get that machine to have a new HD and dual-boot WinXP and Linux. I think, or thought, I had all the partitions set up and the Windows partitions from the old HD copied over, but only one of them mounts properly under Linux and I have no idea what's wrong with the other one but NTFS-fs thinks it's horribly corrupted. In both cases, I made new partitions larger than the originals; the one that worked is FAT32, the one that didn't is NTFS. Would this have fucked things up on NTFS?

Also, and even more annoyingly, I can't write the old MBR onto the new drive, so I thought np, I'll run repair from the WinXP Pro install disc that I of course still have. So I boot off it, and XP checks hardware, and hangs. Hard. No idea why. This is the same install disc I used for this same machine with identical hardware except for the new hard drive, and the new hard drive is just a plain old ATA/EIDE single drive, so I doubt that's it. No error messages, no nothing; black screen and GTFO.

Oh, the linux partition is so I can run ardour. Eventually. I hope. I suppose I could throw out the old media drive (which is dying of plate rot anyway) and make a non-boot NTFS partition on the new drive to replace that, and boot Linux off the second partition on the new drive, but I don't want to keep the original crap drive because it made XP performance a world of pain, and I'd like this 2.7Ghz machine not to be slower and more painful to use than the PIII/550 I'm using right now.

So other than RAGE, anybody got any suggestions?