New PC at Work

I’ve been saddled with an awful PC on my desk for years–it was never top-of-the-line, and now I believe it’s worse than at least three machines I’ve just got sitting around the house. I was never able to justify getting a better one, though, because all I really use it for is Internet access, email, Meeting Maker, and productivity software. I still do all my real work on my Unix machine, which cooks with gas.

But I eventually couldn’t take an 800mhz desktop machine anymore, so I got the go-ahead and requested a new machine in late October. After only 2.5 months of thinking about it, and providing service that I couldn’t have gotten myself unless I’d actually gotten off my ass, driven down to Fry’s, bought a vanilla desktop machine, and hit up the DFS guys for a DVD of our corporate Windows image, I’m typing this on my new machine. I’m excited to see the difference for day-to-day applications.

I requested a second hard drive, so I could dual-boot Linux, and it was delivered in a box on top of the computer. I had to install it myself. God Bless my fellow IDS peeps for their good work! What would we do without them?

Anyway, I’ve been moving crap over all afternoon, and I’m almost done–except for importing my email from my old machine. I never throw any email except obvious spam away, and so when I told Thunderbird to go get my old Eudora folders, it had a difficult task at hand. It’s been crunching away for over two hours.

One thing I have learned this afternoon is that Mozbackup is an extremely useful tool. It’ll allow you to write the data in your mozilla.org-authored applications (Thunderbird and Firefox being the two I use) to a file, and then import that file into another install. There’s no built-in way to do this with Thunderbird, and I was worried I’d have to redefine all my filters such, but it worked like a charm. It’s too bad Mozbackup is no longer in active development, but grab a copy of it anyway if you use anything mozilla-flavored.

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