Dock 22

This is an interesting article I wish I had read when I bought my MacBook. Or just before that. If you have read my post about my first problem with Mac OS X you will understand...

Ok... after banging my head against the wall with my first Mac OS X problem, heres the text I was writing about my first impressions with Mac OS X. One of the reasons for me to buy a MacBook was that I wanted to try Mac OS X. I wanted to try another operating system and was specially attracted because I was told it was based in UNIX and add it's flexibility but being very easy to use at the same time. Anyway, my first idea was to set up a tri-boot system with a very small Mac OS X partition (for experimenting with it), a bit larger partition for Windows XP (I like games...) and a big fat partition for my main operating system: Linux. Things didn't go as I expected. I chose Ubuntu for the Linux part but, as I expected, had to fiddle around with some configurations. If I had tried any other distribution, I would probably have even more problems but still I had some tweaking to do. I kept moving from house to house (due to personal reasons) with no wired Internet connection availa...

I was writing a post about my good experience with Mac OS X when this happened. And I don't like how easily a user can hurt the system like this. I should have guessed by the way applications in /Applications are accessible. The generation of the problem I could not open System Preferences. All I could see was this System Preferences icon with a big question mark. No errors displayed whatsoever. Hmm... After trying some solutions I found on-line about similar problems without success, a user and moderator at Mac OS X tips forum made a bell ring in my head when he reminded me to see if System Preferences.app was present in /Applications. It wasn't... Looking back at what I recall, this is what I think might have caused the absence of the file. Since I am a bit clumsy using the trackpad, I must have dragged System Preferences.app from /Applications to another folder. When you do this, you're not actually moving a shortcut or a pretty icon. You're in fact moving the enti...

"Dock 22" is my attempt at a blog title. Let's see if I like it. I know that I sometimes choose something only to change it again a few days later. That's why I don't know if I'll stick with this title. What's with this name? This is my attempt at joining some of my interests in a single title. Traveling, the sea, computers, UNIX and security ( port 22 ). What do you think?