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Happy Mac

Yesterday, at the end of a long week, I got a call from Joshua at the local Apple dealer. “Your Macbook is in.” A few hours later, the latest chapter in the saga of my computer had ended. Despite getting matrix-like lines on my first restart, a web-based suggestion corrected that. Now, fingers are crossed there will be no sequel. (Of course, I tried that before with Back to the Future, and that didn’t work.)

So now I have the task of taking time once again to realign my data. I had to backup and copy all of the work I thought I would need for about ten days in order to part with this Mac in the first place. I’ve been living on an old 2000 Windows machine, which had a strange sense of familiarity and incongruence with my current life. I don’t have a USB thumb drive, so there’s more obstacles in the path of moving the data back over. Also, I find that with SQL server and Pajek already installed on my Windows machine, I made use of those tools. Those can’t be transferred back to this laptop, so I’ve actually increased my dependence on the old machine. Fear of a logic-board relapse will also keep me from committing to this repaired machine for a while.

By Kevin Makice

A Ph.D student in informatics at Indiana University, Kevin is rich in spirit. He wrestles and reads with his kids, does a hilarious Christian Slater imitation and lights up his wife's days. He thinks deeply about many things, including but not limited to basketball, politics, microblogging, parenting, online communities, complex systems and design theory. He didn't, however, think up this profile.

2 replies on “Happy Mac”

You rock. Yes, now all I’m waiting for is money for the full-blown version of Parallels and to stop involuntarily wincing every time my Mac screen changes. I have to get rid of the Windows install on the dual-boot, as well, since I’ll likely never ever use it like that. I also have to hope that my now long-expired Parallels beta from last June will let me get to the install of Windows I already put on the machine.

Someday … someday …

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