Ordered and received…
- Macbook Pro 17″ with 3.08GHz, 500GB-7200RPM, anti-glare-screen
- iPod Touch 8GB
- OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Next I’ll get…
- iPhone 3GS
Here are all the notes on setting these puppy dogs up…
Macbook Pro ordered the day Snow Leopard came out, so the install disc was in the box; upgraded by selecting “Install OS X”, that was ALL I did. Very strage not really knowing if I was doing the right thing, if anything was happening, did I have two OS installs now, etc. etc. Turned out OK. Also went through all the optional installs on the disc, and installed Xcode 3.2, which is what this whole experiment is about. Get it on! Then I checked the OS version under the apple logo (top left), 10.6, excellent. Then I noticed there was an “update” button there too, clicked that and updated GarageBand et al.
Set up networking – I use static IP’s throughout my network, with WEP and MAC filtering on my wireless router, so the initial “network search” failed, no surprise there. I updated my router with the MAC addresses of the MBP and iPod. Then I went into network preferences and set up the static IP and DNS server IP’s there (checking /etc/resolv.conf on tdm to get the latest). Same on the iPod – you have to connect, fail, then go to advanced settings (a little green arrow pointing to the right). Then I added names for the devices to all the hosts files. MBP is “wallee” and iPod is “eetee” (because it can’t phone home). All is now well.
Next step: synergy. If you don’t have this KVM killer, get it. To set it up as a server in gentoo was trivial, just did an emerge and set up [/etc/synergy.conf]. To set up the client in apple land wasn’t bad either, I just downloaded it, opened a terminal, cd’ed to the download directory, and ran it as [synergyc -f wimpy]. Before it worked, I had to [emacs /private/etc/hosts] and stuff wimpy’s IP in there, and I also had to use the pre-assigned machine name as an alias on wimpy [aliases: wallee: michael-behrns-millers-macbook-pro.local]. Wow what an ugly name, I’ll have to figure out how to fix that soon…
Set up “free (for 60-days)” MobileMe account. Opened iCal, has overlapped calendars a la chandler, nice. Where’s the ToDo list? Hrmm, opened up mail (by accident), it has “notes” and “To Do”. Hrmm, cmon, you can do better than Outlook, apple…
Where is Xcode?
