Tag: Daft Punk

More migration notes… bootcamping

Ok so this one is going to be quick… I got a new mac… yea!

I posted previously on the migration process after a about 24 hours things started to magically get faster, which tends to make me thing there is some sort of background system process running that updates things to the new mac from the old mac. I don’t knot it’s just conjecture or maybe I just need to reboot the damn thing.

I’m thinking I probably needed to reboot the damn thing after dumping some serious knowledge on it.

Ok so if any of you have heard me gripe about my apple store experience in 2007 when I bought my first mac…. you know the story where the dude selling me a very expensive looked down his nose at me and said “windows isn’t going to be the first thing you install is it?” I find that I’m back to a kind of circle of life moment with my mac and windows.

It seems that my upgrade Windows7 that I bought for my old mac is tied to that hardware so I couldn’t use it on the new mac, ok not a huge deal I will use winclone and clone the dmg into the bootcamp partition… yeah that worked not at all. Which left me with… well maybe I can suck up my bootcamp windows into vmware… nope no dice. Honestly after about three hours of dicking around with I decided it wasn’t worth my time.

So now the real question comes out, do I really need to bootcamp my mac? Part of me says yes I do! Then the rational side of me kicks in, 95% of the time when I booted into windows was only to download updates and that was a bit of a pain. I can’t say that I have any real intentions of using this mac as a gaming rig… ok I do have steam on it and compared to my old mac Left4Dead is pretty sweet. When it comes to gaming though at least the kind of gaming I do the PC is the platform of choice. Yes mac are starting to do games, here is the other side of that coin I have no real desire to build a new PC other then my CPU is getting to be a bit long in the tooth. The GPU isn’t far behind.

From a overall perspective what I would like to do is move off of the PC entirely and run all of my media on a apple platform… that however seems kind of expensive but man that shit would work. I can say from a IT guy perspective it’s in my best interest to be familiar with all platforms out there so I guess I will be keeping my PC around even if it is just for gaming and looking for aliens.

One more time….

This is the third attempt at writing something this morning… the first one got derailed by a shiny object… the second got derailed by a Google search on how to mount and extract apk files from a Android img file.

Anywhoo it’s December which means it’s almost chilly, it also means that it’s been 10 years since I started writing in what would become this blog. It’s kind of interesting to me on multiple levels on how this whole thing evolved. It started with a version of Front Page or MS Word that I would upload to Geo-cities. From there it evolved into a blogger address (which really marked the first part of normal web routine to move completely to the internet) and the blogger address evolved into this after I became unhappy with how Google was ignoring blog-spot.

I haven’t logged into blog-spot in forever I wonder if it’s any better?

/NewFireFoxTab

/Login

Hmmmm mostly the same, though it does have ad-sense and Google analytic integration now so that’s kinda cool. To bad I do this as a hobby and not a living.

I miss the “old web” long form communication of blogs (for those of us who still do the personal blog thing). Almost all of the social media sites have devolved into the shiny objects websites… pretty soon it’s going to be very little social and alot of very directed advertising. At the same time thought starting to see parity between desktop web applications and mobile applications is very cool. I knew the world was changing when I loaded the WordPress App for Android and I it was basically a full feature client on a 3.7 inch screen.

So here is to another 10 years of blogging… who knows what the world will bring.

I’m sure it will be something wonderful