The Sect of Rama

First, my gripes with the new laptop: the latch button is impossibly thin- I need to use a fingernail to press it in enough to unlock the screen, I still can't cope without that second mouse button, the Safari browser doesn't have tabs enabled by default (Firefox quickly replaced it anyway, haven't tried Camino yet...), and it appears the entire disk is formated as a single partition:

rama% df -lk
Filesystem   1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 155954992 19776188 135922804    13%    /

So I won't be installing Solaris in the near future, my copy of Partition Magic ain't gonna run on this platform, and I dunno if OSX will let me resize the only partition. When is ZFS supposed to be ported to OSX anyway?

I was curious how you obtain root privs since the install process never asked me for an admin password-- seems its the same as with Ubuntu, although Apple apparently has less faith in their users and includes a MoTD for noobs:

rama% sudo tcsh

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
[rama-computer:/bin] root# 

Finally, the brushed exterior is already showing a few scuffs, I have no idea what from. The price of bling?

On the positive side, wireless is able to pull a stronger signal than any of my previous laptops have through my house's dense walls. Here's what I get via my 1.5/324 DSL connection from the couch:



I can also actually use the Macbook as a laptop. The Ferrari was both way too hot *and* had an air intake vent on the bottom panel that tended to get blocked and cause the already too loud fans to run even louder. Also Adobe Lightroom Beta 4.1 is about a gagillion times faster than I remember it being on any of my windoze boxen (perhaps beta 4.1 is faster than 4.0, which is what I've got installed everywhere else.)

So far, I'm digging it more than the Ferrari...