With the advent of the new hard drive, I've had the opportunity to move a few things around.
I have to say how much I hate Windows, though. The new hard drive (250 GB) had to go into the new external Firewire box (previous Firewire box had a 128 GB size limit for some reason). Old 250 GB drive went into the Windows 2000 server box. BIOS has a 128 GB limit. Get the BIOS upgrade from the MoBo manufacturer. v 3.5 won't install. v3.6 does, though. Now I see a 137 GB drive. Hmmm. Windows 2000 has a 137 GB limit (even under SP4) unless you hack the registry, so I do. Now I have my 250 GB (ok, it's really 233 REAL GBs) drive.
All I needed to do on the Mac to see the full size was get a new external Firewire box.
Getting the drive in and working at the right size means the next task is transferring files from several other machines on the network. 100bT is fast, but gigabytes are still big, and 10s of gigabytes are really big, so in the end it takes hours. But it gets done, and now there are other drives that can be erased and/or moved from machine to machine.
Then there's blogging. I've moved everything from MT to WordPress and I want to go through and fix up categories and check things. It seems that a few postings have been truncated in the DB, probably during editing or possibly when being imported (more likely a failure due to connectivity issues with the database, in my opinion), so I have to get them back from the MT db or archives and make sure they are OK on the page.
Links have to be imported and categorized, which means figuring out what email and password I used on blogrolling and letting them know that I'm not using my account anymore and would they please remove it? Check over the links and figure out what categories there are (or should be). Eliminate some links I'm not visiting anymore, add some in.
With more space available on the server machine, I can combine the various places I've got MP3s ripped of our CD collection, which also means telling iTunes to re-import approximately 30 GB of music files and move them around.
Maintenance is a bitch, sometimes. But sometimes it's just like puttering around the house.
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