{"id":859,"date":"2010-01-27T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=859"},"modified":"2010-01-27T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:27:00","slug":"enslaved-by-the-shiny-new-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"Enslaved by the shiny new stuff&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: This is NOT a &#8220;rabbit hole post,&#8221; although&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>*sigh*<\/p>\n<p>Oh, everything is going quite well. It&#8217;s just&#8230;change. Even good change. Nasty inconvenient thing, makes you late for dinner. (and workouts. \ud83d\ude41 )<\/p>\n<p>Eudora got all wanky, and I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s because of Windows 7. It&#8217;s an obsolete program, no longer supported, and I&#8217;ve been cheating and copying it onto new machines chiefly because I have so much important e-mail in it&#8211;going back to around 1996 or so!<\/p>\n<p>But I decided today it was time to say good-bye to creaky old Eudora. So I downloaded Thunderbird and imported my <em>entire<\/em> Eudora database into it. Holy mackerel. Thunderbird didn&#8217;t know what hit it. I think I have e-mail that predates the World Wide Web! *wry smile*<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all in there! Except for the very recent few things from yesterday and today (because of the wankiness, index files weren&#8217;t updating)&#8211;but I&#8217;m going to fudge around and recover those manually.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderbird.<br \/>Firefox.<br \/>Quicktime Pro [<em>paid<\/em> for that one&#8211;and it&#8217;s worth it].<br \/>iTunes [it&#8217;s like Google&#8211;you can&#8217;t escape it!].<br \/>Sony Vegas Movie Studio.<br \/>Audacity.<br \/>mIRC [for the second time, used my old registration key and activated a new copy on a new computer].<\/p>\n<p>I still need to do more! Safari. Chrome. Sony ACID, I think. Whatever I turn out to need for the digital camera, camcorder and microphone, if anything. The Bamboo Tablet, I hope. And I may need to buy a couple of really <em>long<\/em> USB cables. And a mousepad! Right now I&#8217;m using the digital camera&#8217;s User&#8217;s Manual just because it was there. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side: so far, I&#8217;m not having any problems with Windows 7 and I kind of like it. I <em>really<\/em> like Office 2007, including Outlook. When I installed InDesign CS4 on this system I finally fixed that problem with the extra fonts that wouldn&#8217;t install. I had to install a couple of fonts manually because I used them in the book block of <em>The Longer the Fall<\/em> and that worked perfectly, InDesign recognized them the second I copied them over. In fact&#8230;I&#8217;m kind of amazed at how well things are going.<\/p>\n<p>This makes me nervous, heh. I&#8217;m guess I&#8217;m too (a) pessimistic (b) computer-savvy. *wry smile* But at least I&#8217;m a techie, I don&#8217;t panic easily, I have three other computers and I do daily backups. If my ass was covered any more than that, I couldn&#8217;t sit down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Note: This is NOT a &#8220;rabbit hole post,&#8221; although&#8230;) *sigh* Oh, everything is going quite well. It&#8217;s just&#8230;change. Even good change. Nasty inconvenient thing, makes you late for dinner. 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