Well, first of all i’m more or less happy with what i got in terms of the macbook air. it’s portable and light which is good. I was able to sit in the er for several hours waiting for my turn to see the doctor and was actually not bored there for once.
I had brought the macbook and a usb headset. Usually when i land in the hospital they end up admitting me because of some of my medical issues. This time though I wasn’t admitted but had i been i’d have books at least! Either way the 10ish hours passed rarely quickly with something to do. I was really annoyed the fact that i couldn’t get my media i’d brought to play for the life of me…. Instead i watched episodes of days of our lives from the iTunes store *snicker* >From a linux point of view though things are quite different. for example tail >-n 50 doesn’t work across platforms in terms of the mac and linux with the mac >you have to type something like tail -50 to get what you want. Little things >like that ended up requiring the linux/unix skills of my fiancé to get certain >of my scripts and some other python tools to work properly. I’m highly unsatisfied with the terminal though I mean it does simple mac type things fine and works well enough for that but unless i buy vmware fusion or unless there’s a cheaper way of getting a linux vm up and running for those tasks that just don’t do well in the mac terminal The speech interrupts are highly annoying in the terminal i’d kill for a way to turn those off and on. I also ended up buying a few apps that just make things simpler for me. Take the my medical app. With as sick as i am, that app is almost a needed thing. I’ve been working to get as much of my medical records as possible put into the app so that way if worse comes to worse all i have to do is turn voiceover off, they should be able to access and read the info then give the thing back to me. In theory at least it sounds like a great idea. I’m probably going to have to find a way of getting the data to export to a readable format such as pdf for them. Mac journal i also found useful for several things. Over all, i like what i got. I still have a ton to learn but i think that that will come with time and practice. Now to hunt down iTunes podcasts.:) deedra waters dee...@the-brannons.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
