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		<title>New Mac setup gets less shitty</title>
		<dateCreated>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:21:44 GMT</dateCreated>
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		<ownerName>Dave Winer</ownerName>
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		<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:21:44 GMT" ctSaves="8" flPreview="false" id="2011.08.29.1251" server="xmlrpc://cms.scripting2.com:5337/RPC2" storySerialNum="1251" text="New Mac setup gets less shitty" type="scripting2Post" url="http://scripting.com/stories/2011/08/29/aNiceLittleThing.html" username="davewiner" versionClient="0.44" versionServer="0.44" whenLastSave="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:31:10 GMT">
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:16:59 GMT" pgfnum="9064" text="I got a new &lt;a href=&quot;http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC965LL/A?select=select&amp;product=MC965LL%2FA&amp;mco=MjMzOTQzMjI&quot;&gt;MacBook Air&lt;/a&gt; today and was excited as I was bringing it home, then I remembered -- I don't have a FireWire cable. "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:17:24 GMT" pgfnum="9065" text="This is always the moment when the newness of a new Mac stops being fun and starts being a drag."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:17:45 GMT" pgfnum="9066" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://scripting.com/images/2011/08/29/macbook.gif&quot; width=&quot;145&quot; height=&quot;91&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named macbook.gif&quot;&gt;So I unboxed it, lovely packaging. Surprised to see no thumb drive with the OS on it (as the previous MacBook Air had). I went ahead and started the setup, figuing I'd go hunt around the house looking for a firewire cable (I also vaguely remembered that USB works too). Then it did something nice that made me happy and inspired this blog post. It told me it could do the transfer over wifi. Okaaaay. That's the right answer."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:19:26 GMT" pgfnum="9067" text="It told me to launch the &quot;migration assisant&quot; app in the Utilities sub-folder of the Applications folder on the old Mac. (I wondered what that was, I assumed it was something I didn't need to know about). "></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:20:49 GMT" pgfnum="9068" text="Now the new Mac is happily &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/scriptingnews/6093012951/in/photostream&quot;&gt;sucking data&lt;/a&gt; out of the old Mac, and I'm writing a blog post."></outline>
			<outline created="Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:21:10 GMT" pgfnum="9069" text="I always say &lt;a href=&quot;http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/09/03/wemakeshittysoftware.html&quot;&gt;software is a process&lt;/a&gt;. You watch, we'll make it suck less. It's nice when that happens. :-)"></outline>
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