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September 09, 2004
Mmmm...Mac
Ok, so I haven't come up with an epiphany, or some sort of mind-melting mental masturbation, but what I have done is some brainless code cleaning. Working on someone else's code--especially someone who wasn't trained properly--is very much like, well, metaphors fail me at the moment. There's so much cleaning up, moving stuff around, fixing broken code, and cursing the coder's mentors for passing on all the wrong bad habits that the brain just shuts down after a while and goes into cruise control. There's no thought involved in fixing broken code after the "code" of the code has been broken. Like that one? I'm proud of it. :)
Fortunately my episodes of mental drudgery have been interrupted by the arrival of a new tool. This machine is fantastic and it all started with bypassing another computer chore--file migration. I turned on the laptop, and it asked me if I wanted to migrate from an old machine. I did, but was afraid of looking thru the gigs of files and folders to determine what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to move. It prompted me thru a short series of steps:
1. Plug the two machines together with a FireWire cable.
2. Restart the other machine and hold down the T key to boot it as a FireWire external hard drive.
3. Click "Copy my shit." (or, something like that)
About an hour later, it had copied over 27 gigs of settings, applications, data files, music, pictures and system settings. Another set of steps:
1. Unplug the FireWire cable.
2. Shut off the iMac and remove the network cable (because I'm using a fixed IP, they would cause network fits if they were both on at the same time).
3. Click "Continue." I don't remember if the Powerbook rebooted or not.
The next thing I saw was the familiar desktop from my iMac, on the Powerbook. Everything was as it was on the iMac--only on a 1.5Ghz G4/1G RAM. The pain of moving was gone. Simply, utterly, overly amazing. Bravo Apple. Bravo!
Now, if only moving houses had been that easy. :P
Posted at September 9, 2004 08:33 PM | Life and Work
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