I've been the all-around IT guy for a small office of 30 for a few years now. We've been primarily a Mac shop this whole time, but new business requirements mean that we'll probably be buying more windows machines going forward. I've been tasked with a pilot program to migrate 1/3 of our office over this year, with the assumption we'll bring everyone else over next year. Details inside:
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posted by Oktober
on Feb 25, 2013 -
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I'm looking for instances of animal or insect migration that occur annually within a limited geographical area in Africa. The more concentrated the accumulation of one species in a relatively small area, the better. Thanks!
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posted by np312
on Jan 22, 2013 -
8 answers
SSL, licences, and migrating a website. Old server has an SSL certificate. New one has not. Not using HTTPS. Will visitors see any warnings or otherwise perceive the change?
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posted by alasdair
on Nov 15, 2012 -
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Madagascar was only settled around 2000-2500 years ago by peoples from Borneo who travelled thousands of miles across the Indian Ocean in canoes. Why wasn't Madagascar colonized earlier?
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posted by thecjm
on Oct 11, 2012 -
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I am looking for guidance on migrating an application to the cloud, from both a practical perspective as well as a theoretical perspective for a project.
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posted by conrad101
on Sep 5, 2012 -
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Moving from a MacBook to a MacBook Air - where are 20g of gremlins hiding? Also, any other migration tips for not carrying over unused data and applications?
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posted by mercredi
on Aug 13, 2012 -
13 answers
Imagine I'm a transplant from 1950 who only has the vaguest idea of how the internet works. Now explain to me how to migrate a Ruby on Rails website from one server to another.
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posted by Phire
on Jun 27, 2012 -
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I need to migrate about 5gb+ of email from the local folders in Thunderbird to IMAP in Thunderbird. There are a lot of folders and a lot of subfolders, and migrating them "manually" has really been a pain in the ass. I've got about a third of the folders over, but I'd love to hear a better solution that will actually keep the folder structure in place correctly, not randomly. Perhaps there's an add-on for this? Cheers.
posted by gman
on May 25, 2012 -
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I have a self-hosted WordPress blog in which every post is an image (with alt-text) and a single comment. I'd like to move this material over to a Tumblr blog. The site has two years' worth of material, with about three posts per week.
I've done a Google search and it seems there are three methods for migrating WordPress content to Tumblr. All involve exporting the WordPress Blog to XML first, which I've done.
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posted by Legomancer
on Apr 7, 2012 -
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Should I use a migration agent to handle my application to migrate to Australia from the U.S.? And if so, what's the best way to go about finding a good one?
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posted by milkcrateman
on Jul 17, 2011 -
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Macfilter:
I have an iMac G5 with osx 10.3.9 that would fail soon after startup because of bad capacitors. I ordered a used replacement running osx 10.5, which booted up fine (the first time) and I was able to transfer all my files and programs from old to newish using target disk mode and migration assistant. After migration the programs worked but when I tried to reboot the new(er) iMac would power down immediately after or sometimes during the initial start. Nothing is displayed. About one in 15 tries boots up normally. I'll try the hardware test the next time I get it to boot, but this problem seems unlike others i have read about. Any ideas?
posted by drzz
on Jul 14, 2011 -
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Looking for an article with photos where a town in China moved itself to a new location.
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posted by querty
on May 5, 2011 -
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Migration from Linux
to Windows. What do I need to know in order to make this bumpy transition smoother?
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posted by jaymzjulian
on Feb 13, 2011 -
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[Gmail filter] I am trying to import all my stuff (mail, contacts, folders) from Yahoo to Gmail but I have encountered an error and can't find the solution anywhere. Help, please? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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posted by pleasebekind
on Jan 29, 2011 -
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My Spanish-speaking friends say that they don't have much problem understanding and conversing with Italians and Portuguese speakers.
What other pairs or groups of languages are so similar that they can be understood by their speakers in the same way? Danish and Swedish perhaps? Dutch and Afrikaans? Polish and Czech?
posted by jonesor
on Jan 24, 2011 -
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I have a photo blog on blogger.com that I haven't posted to in some time and, when I just tried, got the following message:
"Blogger no longer supports FTP publishing.
If you are interested in continuing to maintain your blog on Blogger, use the FTP Migration Tool."
I cannot find the FTP Migration tool. Any advice?
posted by tangyraspberry
on Jan 20, 2011 -
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How hard would it be to migrate a wordpress.com blog to a wordpress.org site?
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posted by madred
on Dec 21, 2010 -
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I'd like to be walked through the (no doubt very easy) process of moving a Wordpress blog to a different part of my website.
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posted by COBRA!
on Oct 25, 2010 -
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What web based email provider would you suggest as an alternative to my current one?
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posted by gman
on Sep 23, 2010 -
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I need help migrating an existing Windows XP file system from a Thinkpad to a new Macbook running bootcamp.
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posted by photoslob
on Jun 7, 2010 -
8 answers
Can anyone recommend a good (reasonably priced) migration agent to migrate from the UK to Australia?
posted by starrjenny
on Apr 8, 2010 -
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How to reintegrate as quickly as possible after having lived abroad? Both socially and with regards the "systems" in place in England.
I'll be moving back to southern England after three years in Norway. I am a British national currently living in Oslo, Norway. I intend to move back to England in July after three years of living here as an ex-pat...
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 24, 2010 -
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How do I migrate my boot drive from a traditional hard drive to a *smaller* SSD drive?
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posted by notsnot
on Jan 5, 2010 -
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When I click download links (to .zip, .dmg, etc...) in Safari on my Mac running Snow Leopard, it does nothing. Or more specifically, it says "Loading" in the URL bar for a second as if it were about to load a webpage, and then does nothing. I have to right click and select "Download Linked File." How can I fix this behavior?
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posted by raygan
on Jan 3, 2010 -
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I'm interested in Lebanon, (relatively) modern Lebanese history, Lebanese literature, and the Lebanese diaspora.
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posted by Fiasco da Gama
on Oct 18, 2009 -
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So my boyfriend and I had the marriage talk; he said no. I'm having difficulty coming to terms with it. Help!
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posted by anonymous
on Oct 5, 2009 -
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I have a hand-me-down iphone, which I'm using (for now) mostly as a music player. However, because I'm not the original user, I can't alter the music library, and I'm getting real tired of my mom's Dan Fogelberg and Gordon Lightfoot albums. How do I make the phone and my itunes realize that I am its owner?
posted by Jon_Evil
on Aug 13, 2009 -
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St. Louis, Missouri lost over half its population from 1950-1990. Since the mid-1990s, 80,000 Bosnian immigrants (coming to represent over 20% of the city's population) have established communities that have saved large areas of housing stock from decay. In which other instances have large, permanent groups of non-migrant, non-domestically employed immigrants been settled
en masse helping to shore-up a city that is losing population but otherwise has the infrastructure to accommodate more? Has there been any debate or discussion about hypothetical proposals to encourage something similar in Detroit?
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posted by jjjjjjjijjjjjjj
on Jul 27, 2009 -
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Exchange - How does it handle Outlook MAPI permissions when migrating users from one domain to another?
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posted by Leud
on Apr 29, 2009 -
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We have a drupal site. Had to move to a new host. Drupal is all gibbled now. I don't know drupal, I have inherited the site maintenance. Any chance someone knows wtf I did wrong?
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posted by Salmonberry
on Apr 23, 2009 -
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Migrating from Exchange to Google Apps. Initially is it better to forward emails from Apps to Exchange, or the Exchange to Apps (before getting rid of Exchange altogether)?
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posted by gttommy
on Mar 8, 2009 -
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What would migrating an Outlook Exchange email system with Google's business Gmail?
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posted by gttommy
on Feb 26, 2009 -
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Need a method to search for, and possible change, long file paths inside documents.
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posted by bda1972
on Dec 1, 2008 -
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I started migration assistant before I knew how long it would take. Am I screwed?
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posted by pzarquon
on Oct 17, 2008 -
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Where can I find an Australian migration agent who's good with the creative industries, or otherwise unusual career paths?
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posted by divabat
on Oct 3, 2008 -
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Microsoft Exchange 2000 : is there a built in function or any 3rd party utility that would allow me to export a list of all mailboxes and would include info like User Logon Name and mailbox size?
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posted by starscream
on Jul 22, 2008 -
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I am migrating Visual Studio.Net 2003 from and old dev machine to a new one. VS.NET has tons of environmental settings and GUI options that I have modified to my liking. Is there a way to copy those settings from my old dev machine to my new one? Thanks!
posted by GregWithLime
on May 14, 2008 -
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I'd like to buy a new laptop and to avoid Vista. Further, I have spent years getting the look and feel of my XP computer just the way I want it: properly functioning software, settings just right, internet programs securely locked down, etc. What problems will I encounter if I try to restore a disk image of the current laptop's configuration onto a brand new laptop (first erasing the Vista after making a disk image of Vista's base configuration). For example, what authentication hoops will I have to jump thru to get future Window's XP updates? Might there be any hardware/software incompatibilities? Any licensing issues for non Microsoft software that might be tied to a certain machine?
(A dual boot machine is a possibility, I suppose, although that seems complicated.)
posted by bbranden1
on May 7, 2008 -
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