Comments on: Triple-boot Filesystem Layout

By: Peter Harkins

Peter Harkins — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:41:44 +0000

Performance is excellent. Don’t pay for Apple to upgrade your RAM or hard drive, they’re both very easy to do yourself for half the price. But do get 2G of RAM if you want to run virtual machines or big apps, and do get a faster hard drive if you’re pushing lots of data around.

I did consider the MacBookPro. It was just a little bigger than I wanted, and all the MBPs I touched at the Apple Store were very hot on the bottom. I’d say visit a store to play with them yourself; it’s always worthwhile to get a feel for the keyboard, size, and heft of a laptop.

By: JAW

JAW — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:06:32 +0000

I’m looking at a macbook or a macbook pro. I probably will use os x and all it’s glittery UI looks (for better or worse). How’s the performance on your macbook? Did you consider a macbook pro before buying this?

By: MC

MC — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:18:36 +0000

You probably won’t get much out of my suggestion–but I shared your disappointment with XP’s command line environment as well as CygWin’s, and I owe you plenty for clueing me in on the resize- and move-window mouse shortcuts in Fluxbox.

If you haven’t tried already, install an OpenSSH server on XP, only open to localhost, and connect to localhost via PuTTY or some such. The resulting command-line interface seems–to me at least–to be without terribly noticeable differences from a Linux console. Much nicer for dealing with text editors and the MySQL monitor.

You would likely not need instruction for this, but this page gives a nice overview and lays everything out: http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html

Hope all is going well with you at your new place of work.

By: Eric Sandall

Eric Sandall — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:45:19 +0000

If you will be using Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP only for testing browsers then you probably aren’t worried too much about native speed. You may want to look at VMWare, QEMU, etc. and have OS X and XP just run virtually under Linux. No reboots required. ;)

By: John Calvin

John Calvin — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:40:19 +0000

OSX GUI is lousy? That is a first one. Glad you are getting a MacBook nevertheless. Concerning “TrueCrypt” OSX can already do that–though limited in its options.

Creating a Preotected blank disk image:

You can use Disk Utility to create a blank disk image to store files. Usually, when you create a disk image, you gather the files you want to include into a single location before you create the disk image. With a blank disk image you can add files to the image at any time.

Choose File > New > Blank Disk Image. Type a name for the disk image and select where you want to save it.
Choose the size of the disk image from the Size pop-up menu. To require a password to open the disk image, choose “AES-128 (recommended)” from the Encryption pop-up. Choose “read/write disk image” from the Format pop-up menu. Click Create. To add files to the disk image, open the image in the Finder, which creates a volume on your desktop, then drag files to that volume.

You can also create a sparse image as well.

Concerning triple booting–good luck–check this out:
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp