Blog: Mac Training

Mac Training - Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Today at work we had a guy come from Apple to give us a two-hour crash course on Mac OS X. I thought it was pretty informative since I'm a total Mac newbie. Some cool things he talked about were:

Normal, administrator, and root accounts. How root is disabled by default and how to enable it if needed.
File structure for the system and for individual users.
Using FileVault to create an encrypted disk image. Hard drive free space quirks about disk images.
Configuring ethernet, Airport, VPN, bluetooth, etc. settings and how to assign preferences for which device to communicate over.
Installing IP printers.
The differences between Parallels and Boot Camp. Demonstration of Parallels to run Windows XP.
And I got a free Apple keychain!

Yeah so.. I learned a lot of useful things in those two hours. I think I now know more about Macs than Silly Goose who actually has one. ;)