Moving from one computer to another

I bit the bullet today and have begun the process of transferring material from my old computer to the new one. This involves PCMover (from Laplink), and about 8 hours. It's quite scary in a way, but I'm just taking it one gigabyte at a time.

Once the material is transferred, then I'll have to move the Audigy sound card and console from the old to the new computer, take the SATA drive out of the old computer and put it into the new one, and transfer a USB/Firewire add-in card from one to the other. Then rationalise all the licenses and the like, and set up the other computer in the kitchen for HWMBO. Quite a lot to do.

I put the iMac upstairs in the spare room, and will probably put the Sun SPARC up there too. I'll have to get an ethernet bridge for those. We will have a truly wired house then.

Until the main computers are back up again, I'm using one of the laptops in the kitchen, with the old DELL screen attached to it.

First post from the new computer

Aside from one BSD (blue screen of death) the transfer went really well. PCMover rocks! I have to do some stuff such as transfer my Office programs, but almost everything seems to have worked so far.

Will take a few more days to settle in, I suppose, and I still have some hardware to move over, but all in all, it's been good so far. The proof of that is that I rarely had to swear while doing it.