Tonight's previous post was a cheat, I admit. That doesn't make it any less profound. But I have an excuse, sort of.
I've been spending time configuring the new Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer, transferring files over from the old computer, and getting things squared away on both.
So far my biggest problem has been getting Thunderbird to actually run on the new machine as it keeps telling me it can't connect to my ISP's mail server. If that's the worst thing that happens while I'm getting everything the way I want it, then that's just fine with me.
As I mentioned earlier, the new machine is by no means a bleeding edge computer, but it does have a lot more horsepower than the old one, along with about 10 times more storage space on the hard drive and eight times more RAM. It's also using 64-bit Windows 7 and will also use the 64-bit version of Ubuntu Linux, once I get the second hard drive mounted.It makes for a pretty quick machine for some operations. For others there's no difference, such as download speeds from the Internet.
The old machine hasn't been set aside yet as there are still a number of files and programs to be moved to the new one.
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