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avramYay, new computer! I’d decided on a 15" Aluminum PowerBook, 2 gigs of RAM, 100 gig 7200 RPM hard drive, and I’ll get a bigger monitor later. Went to the Apple Store in Soho on Sunday to see if they could build one for me, and they said they could do the RAM, but they’d have to order the hard drive from Apple. So I bought a new graphics tablet instead (Wacom Intuos, 4x5).
Yesterday I stopped at Tekserve and asked, expecting to be told that the new machines weren’t in yet, but they were! And they had one 7200 RPM hard drive in stock! And they could put the machine together for me right then!
I took the new laptop home that night, though I should have had them overnight it and taken a personal day off work, saved myself the sales tax. But I didn’t, thus shaming the spirits of my ancestors.
The big annoyance has been transferring stuff from my old laptop. What you’re supposed to be able to do with any Firewire-equipped Mac is boot with the T key held down and a Firewire cable plugged in between it and another machine and it’ll mount on the other computer as a Firewire volume. This didn’t work with my old TiBook. The volume mounted, but any attempt to open the volume up and read off it, either through Finder or command-lining in the Terminal, would hang the attempting app.
I copied a whole wad of stuff off the TiBook onto my iPod, and then copied it down onto the AlBook. This was a bit giddy of me, but it worked. Then I remembered my backup external Firewire drive, and now I’m backing up the TiBook to it.
Meanwhile I’m downloading what I think is the latest version of the MacOS X Developer Tools, to give myself make and all those other useful things. Still to come: reinstalling Fink, deciding whether to rebuild Perl from source (do I really need a more recent Perl than 5.8.6?), installing that CPAN module, getting my PHP environment set up again, reinstalling the drivers for my scanner and printer, the Palm Desktop....
On the upside, I opened up Photoshop CS and set up a 9x6 inch, 300 dpi document and tried out some big fancy brushes with the new tablet. Nice and smooth.
Update: Looks like I can skip installing CPAN;
Yesterday I stopped at Tekserve and asked, expecting to be told that the new machines weren’t in yet, but they were! And they had one 7200 RPM hard drive in stock! And they could put the machine together for me right then!
I took the new laptop home that night, though I should have had them overnight it and taken a personal day off work, saved myself the sales tax. But I didn’t, thus shaming the spirits of my ancestors.
The big annoyance has been transferring stuff from my old laptop. What you’re supposed to be able to do with any Firewire-equipped Mac is boot with the T key held down and a Firewire cable plugged in between it and another machine and it’ll mount on the other computer as a Firewire volume. This didn’t work with my old TiBook. The volume mounted, but any attempt to open the volume up and read off it, either through Finder or command-lining in the Terminal, would hang the attempting app.
I copied a whole wad of stuff off the TiBook onto my iPod, and then copied it down onto the AlBook. This was a bit giddy of me, but it worked. Then I remembered my backup external Firewire drive, and now I’m backing up the TiBook to it.
Meanwhile I’m downloading what I think is the latest version of the MacOS X Developer Tools, to give myself make and all those other useful things. Still to come: reinstalling Fink, deciding whether to rebuild Perl from source (do I really need a more recent Perl than 5.8.6?), installing that CPAN module, getting my PHP environment set up again, reinstalling the drivers for my scanner and printer, the Palm Desktop....
On the upside, I opened up Photoshop CS and set up a 9x6 inch, 300 dpi document and tried out some big fancy brushes with the new tablet. Nice and smooth.
Update: Looks like I can skip installing CPAN;
perl -e 'use CPAN;' didn’t throw an error.