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Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks

Posted by michael on from the um,-install-debian-instead? dept.

Lisa writes "There are big differences between Mac OS X and Unix machines. In this MacDevCenter article, Brian Jepson has assembled ten tips to help achieve a smooth transition from Unix to OS X."

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  1. Good! They need the extra skills... by Wee · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...so they can get a better second job to pay for Apple hardware.

    I'm kidding, I'm kidding... jeez...

    -B

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  2. Remember.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's Command/Control/Restart, not Control/Alt/Delete

  3. Re:WHAT? by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    > The question that arises is not how to convert but WHY for God's name?

    Because all other OS's go beep beep beep and eat your paper, and it was a really good paper. then you have to do it again and its not as good because you did it fast this time which is... .. a bummer.

    That and saving Christmas.

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  4. Re:The biggest difference: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    and thanks to mozilla, you can don't have to have a PC/Mac to browse porn with a unix machine!

  5. Re:I hate to state the obvious but.... by jukal · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...given that most Slashdot readers seem to be advocates of Open Source operating systems on commodity hardware, why the enthusiasm for encouraging people to switch to OSX - a closed source operating system made by the poster-child for locking people into overpriced hardware?

    Pssst! It's because we wish to sounds divinely unprejudiced. This is a safe way of doing it while holding our defenses. *...dont tell anyone else*.

  6. Re:First Tip for Unix Geeks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    yes, becuase lunix is teh superear operayting sistem.

  7. Excuse me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's a directory dammit! Not a freakin' folder!!!

    Thank you.

    Now back to your regularly scheduled beowulf "jokes", first posts, goatse.cx links, trolls and astroturfers.

    1. Re:Excuse me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      It's a directory dammit! Not a freakin' folder!!!

      Oooo, wait'll this guy finds out about bundles, he's gonna have a stroke!
  8. I would switch but... by kbielefe · · Score: 5, Funny

    I read on Microsoft's web site that you can only use roman numerals in OS X.

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  9. Re:My Top 10 by sulli · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just make sure that you're showing your pictures, not your (um) pictures on the screensaver.

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    RTFJ.
  10. Re:Good! They need the extra skills... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    don't you know that Apple is cheaper - you just have to compare um, apples to apples... for example... compared with a Ferrari, Apple is cheaper.

  11. tip: command line fun by chmod+u+s · · Score: 5, Funny

    wanna irritate a 'switching' unix geek?

    create root owned directory called "-p" or some suitable switch-like string

    you can't delete it, or move it, or rename it.

    rm -rf "-p" nope
    rm -rf \-p nope
    rm -rf '-p' nope
    rm -rf * nope

    try mv, ls, chown, chmod, anything! it won't let ya do it. And even when authenticated as an admin the finder won't delete it.

    Finally I was able to chown -R from a higher level directory and then whack it via finder. But what a PIA!

    1. Re:tip: command line fun by khuber · · Score: 2, Funny
      Can't you just do "rmdir -- -p" like every other Unix?

      -Kevin

  12. Re:Where's my...Unix? by gnuadam · · Score: 5, Funny

    But GNU's Not Unix, damn it!

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  13. Re:Smooth transition indeed! by brad-x · · Score: 2, Funny

    I refer you to the case of rubber vs. glue. d8)

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  14. Re:WHAT? by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Funny
    won't notice a difference except having more money in your checking account.

    You probably can't tell the difference between a Rolls Royce and a Ford Fiesta either.

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  15. Re:Transition? by astrodawg · · Score: 2, Funny

    "I think use of the word "transition" illustrates the pipe dream that Apple has: UNIX users will leave UNIX in droves to commit to using Mac OS X. "

    This pipe dream is obvious in the Switch Ads... they clearly could care less about Windows users and are after the huge linux desktop marketshare.

  16. Re:developer woes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please fire this person from your pretend development department at your fictitious company. Thank You.

  17. Re:Where's my...Unix? by FireBreathingDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Linux is a UNIX, but GNU's Not Unix, then isn't GNU/Linux an oxymoron?

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  18. Re:Transition? by mosch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is there some sort of geek mafia that I'm not aware of? If so, could somebody make one of those Apple 23" HD flat panels fall off a truck for me?

  19. Re:Talk about bad design... by mosch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jesus christ, The Interface Hall of Shame should be featured on the massively outdated content hall of shame.