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seamless workstation transition
Tuesday, September 1 2009
It was an unusually cool day for this time of year. September is a transitional month, but the first of September has a lot more in common with August than it was with October, and today could have easily been in the latter. Part of the reason it felt so cool was the absence of humidity, which can be a little oppressive even when temperatures fail to rise into the 80s.
While Gretchen was gone today, I swapped out her computer with the new one I'd built for her. The transition was so seamless that she didn't even notice. I'd even managed to copy her open Firefox tabs (that's the beauty of the Firefox profile folder in Documents and Settings). Only later did she realize the bits and pieces my replication had failed to provide: Adobe Acrobat, the Google Toolbar, and the program that allows her to solve New York Times crossword puzzles online.
Te immediate benefit from this was that our internet connection was back to full throttle. Evidently there really had been something buried away deep in Gretchen's old computer that had been using up our internet capacity. Whatever it was hadn't been visable in the Task Manager, not as a process in the Processes tab or even as an excess of load in the Networking tab (although it's possible the evidence was there and I missed it).
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