Shiny!

[sabotabby]

I am blaghing from Mac the Knife.

File transfer still in progress, but so far so good. In the meantime, I'm getting used to the mechanics of a laptop and its tiny, tiny keyboard.

But anyway. New computer!

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Oh, and I watched the Wolverine movie last night. I am still unclear as to what the movie version of this character's superpower is supposed to be. I think it's screaming NOOOOOO!

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So all of the files successfully transferred from Old!Computer to Mackie, but now I've ended up with two separate accounts on the same machine. One has the old computer, pretty much exactly how I left it, minus iTunes working properly. It even has CS3 and Microsoft Office, which is nice, but I bought new and legal copies of those because they weren't supposed to copy over. Huh.

How does one merge two accounts on a computer, or is that even possible? It's not letting me get to all of the old files unless I log into the old account.

This is just weird. It randomly locks some files but not all of them. It's nice to know that Mackie takes my security seriously, but there has to be some way to convince it that [sabotabby's real name] and Abulafia are, in fact, the same person.

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[violachic.livejournal.com]

If this were Facebook, I'd totally be clicking the "like" button right now.

[sabotabby]

What is the "like" button?

I don't understand Facebook's re-design at all.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

I didn't either, for a long time, but now that I'm unemployed, I am on it far too often. Pretty much on EVERYTHING now, there is an option where you can "comment" or "like". If you click the "like" button, its just saying "hey, what you said or posted is cool, but I am too lazy/awesome/incoherent to actually say what I liked about it. I am personally rather a fan of the "like" button. Mostly because I can use it to irritate my friends who don't particularly like it.

[sabotabby]

"hey, what you said or posted is cool, but I am too lazy/awesome/incoherent to actually say what I liked about it.

Oh, wonderful. Soon we won't need to have any human input into the interwebs at all. It will all happen automatically and we'll all just nod our heads.

[rrrao.livejournal.com]

It's also rather Orwellian, in the doublespeak sense that you can 'like' something, but you can't 'dis-like' something, only 'unlike' it (and that only after you 'like' it). Not only does it not require you to be articulate, it allows you to be non-articulate in a very narrow spectrum of the range of human emotions...

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

it also subscribes you to comments on the post

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Can your new computer handle this?

[sabotabby]

My computer, maybe, but not me.

[droneish.livejournal.com]

You might want to log in as root and change the name of the old account to one you'd like to use from now on. You'd copy over anything that's only in the new account first. And both accounts should be given admin privileges before you start.

I'm thinking that way, new --> old, (instead of moving everything from the old account to the new account), because it seems like most of what you want/need is on the account that you ported over. That some things work and others don't just sounds like a permissions issue.

I've done this sort of thing before, but it's been a while so I'm not remembering all the details. (And I really just want to go to sleep right now so the brain, she is not at her best.) But if this a) is totally confusing or b) doesn't seem germane to the problem, I can look into alternate solutions tomorrow.

[spuzbal.livejournal.com]

Why does anybody still think it's okay to have movie characters scream "NOOOOOOO!" It immediately pulls you out of the movie, no matter whether it's done well or poorly, because it's such a cliché that the immediate response is to find it funny.

[marsianer.livejournal.com]

I don't think you can just merge two accounts. At least you can't in normal Unix, which MacOS X is derived from (I'm assuming you're running MacOS X on Mackie).

The best way to do this would be to change the ownership of all files in one of the accounts so that they belong to the other account. Unfortunately, I'm not Mac-savvy, so I can only tell you the I'm-so-ancient-cool-that-I-do-everything-from-the-command-line method. On Ubuntu, I would open a terminal window and type something like this:

    sudo chown -R sabbo-new /User/sabbo-old

where sabbo-new is the account you want to use the files from and sabbo-old is the one that currently owns them.

If I remember right, /User/<account-name> is where your files live on a Mac. You might have to adjust that. I'm also not sure if the "sudo" commands works on Macs. If it does, and you have admin privileges, this is much better than logging in as root.

There's probably some easier way of doing this, but this might be a fallback.

[marsianer.livejournal.com]

Also, there might be Mac-specific problems with this method that I don't know about. So it's probably best to try it on some unimportant sub-folder first and see if it breaks anything.

[courtly.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYSyvIbTAJA

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

RAAAAAAA*slurps cereal*AAAAAGGGH

Re: Wolverine

[cheshirecat25.livejournal.com]

To which L'il Formers has to say:



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