What would you like to see me post?

[ckd]

While waiting for this database load to finish, I figured it was a good time for some meta...a post about what I should post.

[Poll #811142]

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Well, I think you should post about what to post, and perhaps include a poll.

[ckd]

Maybe I should have a poll on whether to have a poll. That might not be meta enough though.

[webzombi.livejournal.com]

post about how i get selected files out of a ancient iMac 333 [it has no firewire, and no CD burner--only USB] and into a new Mac Mini!

iDumb

[ckd]

For a small amount of data, a USB flash drive is probably the easiest way. The iMac will only have the old slow USB 1.1, so you wouldn't want to move too much data over USB; this rules out the "buy an external hard drive that does USB and Firewire" approach.

If you want to move a whole lot of data, get a Cat 5 Ethernet cable. Plug it into the iMac and the Mac Mini. (Or if you have a home network setup with a router or switch that has multiple ports for the LAN, plug them both into that.) The Mac Mini doesn't need a crossover cable. Turn on file sharing on the iMac, then connect to it from the Mac Mini and drag the files over.

[webzombi.livejournal.com]

oh, oh...i like the Cat Ethernet cable way...can i use the cable that is on my DSL modem(it's yellow)? (i don't have home network)

thank you sooooo much!

;-)

[ckd]

Most likely, you can use the cable that goes between your computer and the DSL modem. If it has ends that look like this, it's probably the right thing.

You may need to turn on various networking options depending on what Mac OS the iMac is running.

[webzombi.livejournal.com]

yes. the ends look just like that (it hooks the Dino-Mac™[333] to the net via the Actiontec DSL modem from Qwest.

the poor old thing [iMac] is running (embarrassingly) Mac OS 8.6...ha-ha-ha.

[ckd]

Here's info on setting up file sharing.

[webzombi.livejournal.com]

-update-

dooooood, thank you so much for your help w/my "issue". guess what? it worked like a charm! everything from the DinoMac™ is now on the MiniMac™. yay!

(it was sooo dang easy and took no time at all.)

you rock baby!