arrival

[egypturnash]

I got my new computer. Yay! I'll be spending the next few hours using the Tiger update CD that came with it, installing all the crap I need, moving over my data, and configuring it the way my old machine was set up. This wasn't typed on it; I think the wireless here isn't set up to accept connections from arbitrary machines. I'll work that out once lediva gets home.

Yay!

Oh, and here's a link to some of the most amazingly curmudgeonely reviews of Mac tools I've ever seen. Especially in the "Very Ugly" category, where the most horrible sins one can commit in design are (a) putting a friendly face on something that can be accomplished via the UNIX shell, because everyone should just learn UNIX and love it!, and (b) having .DS_Store files inside the application's bundle. OH NO.

Comments

[protocat.livejournal.com]

Wooo awesome! <3 I've found myself using Spotlight obsessively, but you may wanna try reeling it in a bit since it'll be on a laptop by forbidding a lot of directories for it to index under Sysprefs -> Spotlight -> Privacy. That way it won't thrash your laptop so bad indexing. Currently I have it set to keep all my logs out of it, since I use terminal and grep to search those, anyway.

(I think I need more Mac related icons than just the bomb. c.c;)

[zeeth_kyrah]

Just beware unwanted shortcut changes.

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

The wireless router is MAC-filtering wireless connections, but I think it isn't filtering wired connections. I can't believe your puter doesn't have an ethernet jack, so grab a cable off the shelf in Kin's room (I think all the ones in the milk crate are 50' long) and plug yourself in. (Ooh.) Set 192.168.0.1 as gateway and dns, and the router should hand you an IP address.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

You can just see the beard on the dude writing those reviews. :D What kind of video card does the laptop sport?