Stayed Up Late

A blessed event - not a new baby, new boat, or paid day off, but still noteworthy, and good

I had some time to flex-off, to use the jargon of the office, yesterday morning, so I drove to the UPS hub and picked up the new Power Mac G5.  One of those deliveries that required signature, and who knew when the truck would arrive at our house with the new machine.  I didn’t want to have to wait until next week sometime to get started using it.  MacOfAllTrades sent it in packaging that made me hope they’d made some sort of error and sent me an even better machine than the one I’d ordered, but they’re just opportunistic packagers.  It was all I could do to defer gratification and go on in to work after.

Christov's Laboratory - Using Apple's settings transfer utility after booting the old machine in Target Disk Mode

Last night, messing around with the new computer, applying four or five rounds of SoftwareUpdate, I didn’t get to bed until around eleven.  Late for me.  I’m thinking through how to get the information from a second hard drive into the new machine – Target Disk only acquires the boot drive of the connected machine.

Probably will network the two machines via ethernet after connecting the MDD to the Windows sandbox’s monitor, then drag and drop about 30 gb from the Media Warehouse hard drive.  All my games are on that drive, too.