I recently moved to a beautiful, new loft, which is also smaller than my previous apartment. I just love the new neighborhood, and the view is great. I can see the whole of Coco del Mar and the Pacific Ocean.
As such, I waited for this time to set-up my new iMac, a machine powerful enough that I hope that I won’t have to change for the next 3 years or so. And you know why? Because moving systems is painful.
Yes sir, reinstall drivers. And that Canon 676U scanner driver no longer works on Tiger 10.4; which is weird, since it worked just fine in my previous and lovely iMac running 10.3.9. I mean, come on, it’s just a 0.01 difference in OS upgrade…
And there is the problem of the native libraries… Yes, Ruby 1.8.2, which is way old. My computer did not arrive with Leopard. And this is so in purpose, because I got a discount on it. But now I had to download and install gems, and then update, and then I forgot and I ended with Rails 2.0, which is a little hard for me…
Never mind the Python 2.3.5 version which works perfectly in 10.3.9 but has broken libraries in 10.4. So you reinstall Python 2.5 and the wxPython libraries as well.
And then Eclipse, Aptana Studio, Netbeans and all.
But that is nothing. The problem is my MP3 collection, which took many DVD’s and countless hours watching the screen while one copies from disk to disk… It makes you start hating music.
Accounting backups? Those are nasty. Be careful or you might loose the next VISA payment. It happened to me once.
After all was done, the system looks beautiful. But it took I guess close to 8 hours or more to migrate everything. And this was not an easy morning in the house alone. This was mayhem while I tried to paint the walls, install that new bathroom mirror, and try to remember where I put the box of underwear, all at once…
Did I say three years? Make it four… after all, I am still using the same languages to solve the same problems I did in 2000.
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