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Mac OSX and the New Macbook Pro

Wednesday, 8 July 2009 19:10 by Sherlock Ossa

I have had over a week to work on my new Macbook Pro 13.3" notebook.  Its been great.  Aside of using Visio today on a PC at the office I have been doing everything I need to do.  Microsoft Office 2008 has a new version of Entourage which is a great step up from the 2003 version.  I use a Blackberry Storm and we host our own Blackberry Professional Server.  Using Entourage 2003 I did have some odd issues.  With Entourage 2008 everything works great.  The only issue I have is sent items are not shown on my Storm with a check mark like they are in when sent from Outlook.  

This afternoon I was working on uploading a website for one of our customers via FTP.  One of the paths was off in a link so I thought I would edit it.  Normally, in Windows I would use notepad.  Well VIM, a powerful text editor, is available in OSX.  In order to view the new website before changing DNS settings I opened up the Terminal utility and ran 'sudo vi hosts' to edit the hosts file and then used vi to edit the web page.  Once my changes were saved I used FileZilla to upload the page. This is great.

Now, most users are not familiar with BASH or shell commands.  VIM could be mistaken for VMI.  I am sure there are some great tools out there to do what I just did but what I want to point out is that a network admin with experience in both a Unix and Windows environment can be very comfortable using Mac OSX.   

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