During the weekend I managed to start using iPhoto and iTunes. Very impressive pieces of software, I must say. No wonder so many people use iTunes. I did import most of my music and photo collections into the applications. There are some aspects where I’d like more control over how they operate, but I guess I’ll just try them out for a while.
I also installed MacFuse so I can mount files over ssh. Didn’t have time to test it out, though.
After some tweaking I also turned off FileVault – it was just too cumbersome to move files around, and with the ultra-slow (and ultra-secure, I guess) deletion logouts were a bit of a pain. After all, I do open source work, and publications, and such, so there are no classified secrets on my machine.
The Finnish keyboard layout is a bit of a hack. Important special characters needed in shells, like “|”, “@” or “$” were a bit difficult to find, but at least they are accessible. Special characters in file names are also a bit problematic. Apparently Mac uses UTF-8, but the Terminal, of course, cannot handle unicode. So I need to find another terminal for that.
Of course, the Ubuntu Linuxes I’ve installed work quite nicely. I’m starting to think that VMWare has handled Linux support better than Parallels. On the Windows side there isn’t much difference. I’ll post the details later when I’ve gone through all combinations extensively.
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