Prepping

Been a little busy this weekend.

Not sure if I mentioned before, but one of the reasons I made my whirlwind trip home was to switch out computers.

Long story short, with no real explanations, I'd settled on using my little white Macbook as my primary work computer, and it was giving yeoman service.  OK, explanations:  The new business center printer my employer installed…well, there are no good drivers available for Linux.  I mean, there are drivers, and I installed them, but they won't work with this particular printer.  (I honestly think the damned printer is just a bargain-basement, give-us-the-cheapest-thing-you-got, don't-worry-about-compatibility number…)  The Mac sees it fine, so…

However, I have to now make an admission:  I'm getting old.  That little 13" screen that used to be so clear and crisp…  Well, it still is, but it's small.  I've been spending my days leaning in on the desk, and my back has decided to tell me about it.  Constantly.  So…

I have now cleaned up, updated, and software-loaded my 2nd gen Macbook Pro (2.4 Ghz, Core2Duo), which is running Mountain Lion.  The gentleman I acquired it from had jacked the memory up to 3 GB, and had stuck in a 1 TB hard drive.  (Yes, I will one day get a 2 GB stick and make it 4 GB of RAM.  But it's working fine for now.)  It, and the Surface Pro, are going to my my only accompaniment on the road.

I joked to a friend of mine that having Mountain Lion and Windows 8 side by side might result in the birth of some sort of terrifying dimensional anomaly.  (Cue Twilight Zone theme here.)

Already copied over several hundred megs of files I've generated since I've been onsite.  Now, just waiting to be able to sit down with a little screen real estate to work with.

Did have to laugh here, but not for reasons of screen size.  I needed some back up storage, so I went digging on my nightstand, and found a couple 16 GB thumb drives.  One of them I remember has the perennially failed install of FatDog64.  The other some oddball version of Puppy that I can't remember.  I just mounted them both on the MBP, and re-partitioned both of them as storage devices.

The reason I laughed about this:  It amazes me how cavalier we are today with these things.   32 gigabytes, containing two complete operating systems, yet I just nuke and reformat without giving a single thought.

Times have most definitely changed...