My new MacBook Pro (WITHOUT retina display) came yesterday. It’s SO nice having a matte screen again. I cannot say how much I hate seeing reflections of lights or myself in my screen. So this has been great. I still have my old laptop and I have a time machine backup for it. However, I decided not to use time machine to restore the computer. One, because there’s tons of stuff installed that I don’t really want any more. So, this will force me to clean up. Two, I did restore with time machine a while back, when the hard drive failed. It didn’t work perfectly. And I had to reinstall some software packages and clean up other stuff anyway. So, I decided to just avoid it altogether. This also got me to look at some programs that I was using to see that they won’t run under 10.7. The program I use to encrypt stuff is one such program, so I need to find an alternative for that. There were a couple others, but I think it’s good to set things up again. It helps me to remember why I did it.

I’m very happy in that I was able to transfer my itunes and iphoto libraries without any problem. If there had been an issue I would have been completely disgusted with Apple, since these are both apple programs, running on apple hardware. So, that was good.

I’ve installed MacPorts again and am happy with it. I thought about switching to HomeBrew, but after reading up on them, I think I’ll be happier with MacPorts. Plus, I’m already familiar with it, so that’s good.

Right now, I’m working on taking mysql dumps of the databases I’m still developing with on the old laptop. The procedure I’m using is to dump the database, copy it to the new laptop, create a database with the same name, grant the privileges to it and then load the dumped sql file. It’s a bit of a hassle, but stuff works with it. It would be an advantage to having been using sqlite here, but since we use mysql on the servers, I use in on my laptop.

That will pretty much do it for transferring things. It went rather smoothly, which makes me happy. By the time I get to work on Monday, I should be all set to keep on working.