Uranus goes live!

July 7th, 2007 at 7:07 · Filed Under At Home, Blogging, Computing, Days in My Life, Mac OS X 

Uranus is my new Apple Mac Book! Named after the 7th planet in our solar system.

This morning, I took the new Mac Book out of her packaging. She was wrapped with a thin and tight cloth-like material. I plugged in the power supply to charge the battery. At 07:07:07 on 07/07/07, I pushed the power button and she came alive. Booting up with excitement. Then, I started the first round of data exchange, copying applications, user’s accounts and files, preferences and all other files from Pluto, the Mac Mini, to Uranus.

After making a copy (almost a mirror copy) of the data, the installation of Mac OS X was completed on Uranus and I started to logged in.

Then I started 2nd round of exchange, connecting to the Internet to update the Mac OS X on Uranus (she comes with 10.4.9 and I have to update to 10.4.10). After downloaded some files, the updates were installed and Uranus was restarted.

Then I started the 3rd round of exchange. Setting up rsync so that I can sync my data between Uranus and Pluto. When I need to go out with Uranus, I can sync files from Pluto to Uranus and bring along the latest files with me. After I worked on some files on the go with Uranus, I can sync back to Pluto when I am home.

The 4th round of exchange was to setup remote links to the other Linux and Solaris boxes.

The 5th round was to install some software which was not copied to Uranus in the 1st round of exchange.

The 6th round was to reload some files archived earlier which were not found on Pluto.

The 7th round was to make a copy of both hard disk to a USB hard disk using rsync.

Exhausted after 7 hours of setting up and testing.

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