Like the teleprompter reader-in-chief always says, “Change is never easy.” So the weekend shift from my old Dell Dimension 3000 with its dying audio to this new Dell Inspiron 546 has been a trip. Mostly finished now.
Thanks to a $19 Cruzer Micro 8GB flash drive, it was relatively painless. Along with ninety-nine percent of my old files, I even managed to move the browser favorites and the old email. Can’t figure out how to move the passwords, however, so will do that by hand (i.e., pen and paper).
The only major hassle so far is Skype. I downloaded new software since I couldn’t shift the old over and the new refused to allow me to sign-on using my old account. So now I have a new account and the old one and emailed their powers in Belgium to try and get the new switched with the old. They came back saying sure, you can do that, if you use a new email address. Not wanting to do that, I canceled the old account. I’ll wait a few hours and try setting up the new one based on the same email address.
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