Ping's 12" mac laptop
Feb. 2nd, 2003 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomOn Saturday Ping and I went to the Apple store to purchase her 12" mac "AlBook". The salesguy acted like he couldn't care. It was really disappointing, considering that I was expecting more of a Saturn approach to computer sales than anything else.
When we got to her place I installed a ethernet card in her PC, connected them together, and soon I was transfering all her old files to her new Mac.
The amazing thing is that I don't know much about Windows networking, and zero about Apple networking. It just worked.
It just worked.
Sure, I popped into a UNIX shell and did the copy that way, but everything else was purely using Mac-style software.
It was a dreamy experience. Using the most awsome user interface to do things with networks that would take me hours to do, and yet being able to "pop into Unix" for things that I wanted to do. Even obscure Unix commands like "rsync" are included. I hardly expected that!
I can't wait until I get a mac myself.
--tal
P.S. rsync doesn't really have a way to skip files that it can't access, or that have errors, so I wasn't sure it was properly skipping her swap file and other things that Windows file sharing wouldn't let it access. So I re-copied things with this terribly inefficient command: (this is from memory, so it may be off)
find . -type f -exec rsync -avR '{}' '/the/new/place/{}' ';'
Sure, it only copied one file at a time, but it created the subdirectories as needed and didn't recopy things when I re-ran it.
When we got to her place I installed a ethernet card in her PC, connected them together, and soon I was transfering all her old files to her new Mac.
The amazing thing is that I don't know much about Windows networking, and zero about Apple networking. It just worked.
It just worked.
Sure, I popped into a UNIX shell and did the copy that way, but everything else was purely using Mac-style software.
It was a dreamy experience. Using the most awsome user interface to do things with networks that would take me hours to do, and yet being able to "pop into Unix" for things that I wanted to do. Even obscure Unix commands like "rsync" are included. I hardly expected that!
I can't wait until I get a mac myself.
--tal
P.S. rsync doesn't really have a way to skip files that it can't access, or that have errors, so I wasn't sure it was properly skipping her swap file and other things that Windows file sharing wouldn't let it access. So I re-copied things with this terribly inefficient command: (this is from memory, so it may be off)
find . -type f -exec rsync -avR '{}' '/the/new/place/{}' ';'
Sure, it only copied one file at a time, but it created the subdirectories as needed and didn't recopy things when I re-ran it.
