Taming the big scary kitty
So today, at 9am, I started the migration from my highly customized and infinitely tricked out developer machine (a n outmatched1st gen Mac Book Pro) to my brand new shiny 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook Pro with 4GB of RAM and twice the disk space. Given what I was going to, I figured, this shouldn't be too hard, right?
Wrong...
For starters, the Migration assistant leads me right into a 4 hour transfer process with nary a warning nor a way to abort. Not cool. So I spent the morning doing what work I could on my Mac Mini and iPhone[1] while also reading up on my soon-to-be new operating system. Oh did I fail to mention that I was not only migrating to a new computer but also upgrading to a new operating system? Yes, I deserve everything I got...
Once it was done, it was quite evident how much more I had to do. The console was spinning like top, my four GB of RAM being quickly eaten up, finder and other application crashes, etc etc etc... One by one, I tackled the problems: vicious launch daemon issues, filesystem permission issues, user/group ownership issues, conflicts between my custom LAMP setup and the one shipped with Leopard, apps which weren't updated for Leopard, FastCGI dying like a fish in the desert, on and on and on....
Finally, though, like the marathoner cutting through the tape at the finishing line, I stabilized the patient!
So, fourteen hours later, this screenshot makes me very, very happy...
This, however, is a little less than optimal...
[1] - Apple whore, go ahead and say it...
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Uh oh. I went with the 2.4ghz MacBookPro tonight - knowing nada about Mac other than watching all of you use it for all these years. Should I have held out and gotten a 2.6? (They didn't have them at the store and I decided 2.4 vs 2.6 was not a big difference.) Ugh.
Only have 2gb of RAM right now; will upgrade it to 4gb in the not too distant future though.