Update, schmupdate.
Hi, gang.
I’ve been meaning to write a blog post for a couple of days now, but I’ve been busy IRL. Sorry.
First, the good news. Nereids is complete on Ruthie’s Club. If you’re not already a member, you can join for a 7-day trial for only $9.95. So, now’s your chance to read Nereids in its entirety (along with hundreds of other illustrated stories). Otherwise, you have to wait till the Ruthie’s Club exclusivity period is up.
On to other good news. I just sent the first part of “Breakdown” to my editor. I expect to post it in a week or so. The schedule will depend on my team’s schedule, but you have that to look forward to.
In other news, I’ve been working on my web site and doing computer upgrades.
The upgrades first. I finally decided that my MacBook’s 60Gb drive was just too small. (60Gb? Small?! WTF? Yeah. I remember the days of 10Mb hard drives, when that was more space than I’d ever need). I ordered a Seagate Momentus 120Gb drive to replace the stock Apple HD. But I was at a loss for what to do with the 60Gb drive I was replacing.
I hate the idea of perfectly good hardware just sitting in my spare parts bin, collecting dust. I already have 512Mb of Apple RAM doing nothing. But then some genius in the Forum mentioned an external enclosure. The discussion was about someone whose HD had failed, and the enclosure came up. I’m sorry, but I don’t remember whose message flipped my Bright Idea switch. But if you mentioned an external enclosure in that discussion, pat yourself on the back and know that you have my eternal gratitude.
Anyway, I bought an external enclosure for the “old” 60Gb drive. And I finally had the time to back up the computer this past weekend. The new 120Gb drive went in without a hitch and the Apple system DVDs reinstalled everything perfectly.
Let me tell you, upgrading a Mac is far, far, far easier than doing the same thing with Windows. I copied over my e-mail libraries and preferences. E-mail picked up right where it left off. I copied over my Firefox preferences. The browser picked up where it left off. I copied over two massive iPhoto libraries, and they picked up right where I left off. I copied my iTunes library, and it picked up right where I left off. You get the picture?
In less than a day, my “new” Mac was indestinguishable from my old one. I haven’t encountered a single glitch. I still have to install my fonts, but that’s a trivial task, which I’ll get to on an as-needed basis. So, color me impressed with the Mac and OS X. Again.
If you’re a casual computer user and you only want to surf the web, send e-mail, and do mostly “routine” computer things, consider buying a Macintosh. The prices are comparable to a similarly outfitted PC, but the Mac is much, much easier to use. It just works. With everything. I sound like a fanboy, but it’s true. Anyway, on to the rest of this post.
Most of you have noticed that I’ve been updating my web site. The Daily Nudes are in a new format, with more pictures. And I added the Weekly Nude Galleries, of course. I’m also in the process of updating and adding to the Women of Summer Camp galleries. (I’m using iPhoto to manage my photo libraries, and the program is really starting to grow on me. But that’s the subject of another post entirely. I’m already an iPhoto fanboy, so you’ve been warned.)
Anyway, that’s what’s going on with the web site, my computers, and a few other things. I’ll write another post with updates on stories. Till then, you have “Breakdown” to look forward to. And Nereids, of course.
Thanks for reading.
- Nick
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Are….I see the Author’s refilling his green pen in anticipation of Summer Camp
~gonz, an appreciative reader
I’m afraid this is a bit too late.
When you install new OS in a new drive, new Mac, all you have to do is connect your old HD via FireWire or USB BEFORE booting up with OS DVD.
After the new OS install, your Mac will ask you to correct current user information from connected volume, just answer “YES,” everything, applications, all your data, yes, all fonts will be copied automatically.
although I refuse to drink the “mac kool-aid” and be brainwashed, I am happy to hear that you were able to upgrade your system with little down time. As an IT professional, my single greatest annoyance ith windows is when I have to upgrade, or heaven forbid. replace my system. Downtime for me means downtime for well over a hundred people, and they tend to get a little grumpy about that. Thanks for the update Nick. Looking forward to everything you write, anxiosly, but patiently. Your stuff is great.
Glad to read good news, Nick, esp. somebody being successful and fast on any computer UG. As an Intel based IT guy I can believe the “Mac Fan”, as I administer a couple of hundred PC-s, with Windows (95 - 98 - NT - XP) servers mostly NT and Linux.
Rev. is right in not desiring brainwash, I don’t either, but some things are cooler on the Mac.
Ocean.one-s comment shows there are knowledgeable people all round (Win, Mac, Lin(UX)es) so it is usually a question of digging deep enough.
I might sound a turncoat, but I never believed in religious wars.
Glad to hear about something new, that the 6 months on Nereids is ticking, and that Nick and everyone is relatively well and going.
Just as an “FYI” - since Mac OS X is a derivative of Linux, you could mount the “new” drive, still in its enclosure, and (I’m hoping as such) the following command, entered from a terminal window, will copy the entire drive over to the new drive:
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda
Two caveats: one, I’m not sure what the device is listed as on a Mac - the command above would work from a PC running Linux. You can issue the “mount” command with no parameters to see what’s loaded where. Another point is that this creates a perfect, bit-for-bit copy. If there’s anything wrong on the input file (in this case, a drive) (if=/dev/hda), then that will be copied verbatim to the output file (of=/dev/sda).
Just trying to educate one of my favorite authors…
Keep up the great work!
Jay