Re: Thanks all

Ashton,
Don't sweat the "training". You have more than enough grey (or is it gray?) matter to not need a "stinking manual". I think you'll find that the intuition is there to find in a very short time. I echo remarks from rcaragea as a longtimer who had to switch from OS9 to OSX. It actually easier if you know little or nothing about Mac OS versions prior to X.

When you get on board, you'll find a quick perusal of sites like:
[link|http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/|http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/]
or [link|http://www.osxfaq.com/|http://www.osxfaq.com/] or the CUPS issue you spoke of [link|http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3|http://gimp-print.so...e.net/MacOSX.php3] ... Google is your friend :-) Sourceforge has been extremely active. Apple's X11 is very stable (now) and one of the better implementations I've seen.

Check this out:
[link|http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/|http://www.apple.com...unix_open_source/]
A simple Google search with "OS X" and "Open Source" will give you a good idea of the breadth of stuff available.

By the way, Happy Holidays to you et al. I've been extremely busy at work and home (after standing up the VMWare ESX boxen and the Citrix farm they made me techical lead on an HP Openview implementation -OVOUX/OVOWIN with the agents and spi's, yadayadayada) I'm now working on a product called Axios Assyst (MFAC alert - the leading ITIL based unifying solution)

It wouldn't be right if I didn't do my perfunctory rant in a post so here it is... ITIL - the ISO 9000 of the modern age. The total quality management system for the rest of us if we only work as a team using LIFO and FIFO methodologies. I must have been asleep at the wheel but when did the MFAC's come up with this ITIL happy horseshit? Am I just getting too old and cynical or is this latest management fad getting legs for folks who have titles without knowledge? Etc...

Enjoy your new computer and if you need any assistance get me here or at work and I'll be happy to help (if I can)

Thanks, Dan

Reassuring that, in this case.. logic just may be enough :-\ufffd
I do see a whole new list of TLAs I shall have to adsorb, but at least I can be selective. The info itself already seems better organized than I'm used to; this batch should help further.

As to ITIL... whenever I see ~

IT Service Management is a top-down, business driven approach to the management of IT that specifically addresses the strategic business value generated by the IT organisation and the need to deliver a high quality IT service. IT Service Management is designed to focus on the people, processes and technology issues that IT organisations face.

I'm reminded that the Principia damn near killed Bertie Russell - was it ~pp 142 that he finally got to a proof for "1 + 1 = 2"? Anyway I sympathize with being involved with any project whose goal is to Fully Organize Everything.

'Course I know nothing about the company (UK?) and it's er Misson - but sure sounds like another Grail Quest: Meta-Information / Information-about-Info. Recursion is such fun, but mix -$$- with that and soon it's cha cha cha
"Strategic Business Value" eh..

(Yeah, you may be getting old, but relax.. occasionally that does mean wiser - if not quite as frequently as we hoped. And it is Wise to despise bafflegab. I say that didactically as, it be unarguable, that. ;-)

Cheers,

moi

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