My new iBook has arrived, Expect pictures soon. Now I need a name for it. My first ideas: iViline, ira, ivy, inken, ivory. But nothing convinced me yet. Luckily the Airport card didn’t arrive yet, so I have some time left until i need to add it to the DNS. Please send me your suggestions. Until the final decision it calls itself “arveds computer”, which is a really silly name, since it is not a unique definition.
My first adventures with Mac OS X: I discovered that MacOS X is a h4X0r OS, it is the only Operating System I know, which has a portscanner installed in the default installation. It was easier to find, than the Terminal. The Filesystem Hierarchy looks really silly, why haven’t they installed their proprietary non-standard stuff into specific prefix? Also I noticed that there is no driver for the Netgear MA111, so no WLAN without Airport.
What I still need to find out:
- How to deinstall software, who needs iChat?
- How to add and remove items from the taskbar
- How to disable the Startup sound
I think I will have to read some Mac-Newsgroups.
I found this Thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/topic/23957-1.html about iBook names. The strangest suggestions where “Barry White” (it’s white and the girls will love you) and Margret Thatcher (no reason given). An interesting idea was “island” since there is also a beach screensaver in MacOSX.