Opening a card
Here's Loyal Reader Number Twelve opening one of her many birthday cards a couple of months ago. Having a good time.
The new Mac's here! Loyal Reader Number Two and I got it unboxed and plugged in late this afternoon, and I'm using it right now. Sadly, I can't yet get it set up exactly the way I want it. I had previously set up the new 500 GB drive to be my boot disk with the old Mac. When I tried to do the same with the new Mac, it told me I had to reformat that drive before it would work with an Intel-based machine. Can do, but I need to get all the hundreds of gigabytes of data off of it first. Sadly, it's too much to copy it all to the same computer, so I'm in the middle of moving files all over the network. Then I'll reformat the big drive, install OS X on it, and move all my files back. It will take a couple of days. Sigh.
On the other hand, it won't take forever, and I like the machine very much. It looks identical to my old one, but it has a lot more guts. And it can run Windows. Simultaneously with OS X. Not that I really want to run Windows, but I have a couple of development platforms that only work there.
Decent day otherwise. It rained most of the afternoon, and it's supposed to really start raining hard and blowing later this evening. They're predicting gusts up to 65 MPH. That's a strong wind. I just hope nothing blows through the windows.
Nothing much else to report, and I want to get back to the file transfer, so I'll end. See you tomorrow.
posted by Michael at 7:13 PM
5 Comments:
There's a typo in the 2nd paragraph.
How nice to hear from good old Anon again! There's not a typo anymore. Thanks for the tip.
The amount of processing power in our home has gone up massively! And the total amount of RAM across all our machines. As a matter of fact, the total amount of RAM has almost doubled. Fantastic! Too bad I have no excuse to use it.
Perhaps you should set it up as a shared build node. That way when I'm trying to build software I could take advantage of your higher-powered machine when you're not using it.
I can't remember if I told any of you that we got home safely or not, but we did. Our flight took off more than an hour and a half late. It was lame. However, I just got home from work. That was less lame. It's not fun to get home from work at midnight, but I am now renewed as an official National Skeet Shooting Association referee. Woohoo!
No, you didn't let us know. Certainly glad to hear it!
Bob and I are making fantastic progress with his website, and I've finally got a project in work that I'm really, truly excited about. Well, actually, it's not the first (I was very excited about the Ruby script to interface with Quickbooks), but it's always fun when we've got something going on that excites me as much as it does Bob.
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