Installing Linux on a MacBook without OS X

OK, so I have made up my mind. I’m switching back to Ubuntu. Why is a later post but in short I feel that Ubuntu is a better OS if you are a develope, at least a Python/Plone developer like me. This post is to explain some things about how MacBooks boot, and how to [...]

Book Meme

Above all, it performs an integrating role by giving defined meanings to a persons’s experiences.
(Explanation.)

Is gravitys pull bigger?

Wait, hang on here… The gravitational pull of galaxies means they must be more massive than the observable mass we see, so dark matter was invented. But… there is also a flyby anomaly meaning that the increase of speed in flybys are higher than what it should be. And there is the pioneer anomaly, where [...]

Ubuntu vs OS X: The deathmatch!

As you may have seen from my recent posts I’m trying out OS X. There is no doubt that for the casual computer users viewpoint OS X kicks Linux’s ass. But I’m a open source computer programmer, and for us things are definitely not as clear cut. Five years ago, they probably would have been, [...]

Switching to OS X, Obstacle 4: Python and friends

Obstacle 1: Where the heck is that button?
Obstacle 2: Switching between windows
Obstacle 3: Home/End buttons (Unsolved)
Obstacle 4: Python and friends
After getting my keyboard almost sorted out (if I just could find a terminal replacement that uses Cmd+Arrows I would be happy, I think. That OpenOffice is inconsistent I can probably live with) it’s time to [...]

Switching to OS X, Obstacle 3: Home/End buttons (Unsolved)

Obstacle 1: Where the heck is that button?
Obstacle 2: Switching between windows
Obstacle 3: Home/End buttons (Unsolved)
Obstacle 4: Python and friends
As mentioned, my keyboard troubles are not over yet. Now it’s the rather important issue of moving the cursor to the end or the beginning of the line. This is one of the absolutely most common movements [...]

Switching to OS X, Obstacle 2: Switching between windows

Obstacle 1: Where the heck is that button?
Obstacle 2: Switching between windows
Obstacle 3: Home/End buttons (Unsolved)
Obstacle 4: Python and friends
In OS X, Cmd-Tab switches between applications, and not between windows as under Windows or most Linuxes. That’s OK, in fact, I think I like it (I’m note quite sure yet).
However, I of course also want to [...]

Switching to OS X, Obstacle 1: Where the heck is that button?

Obstacle 1: Where the heck is that button?
Obstacle 2: Switching between windows
Obstacle 3: Home/End buttons (Unsolved)
Obstacle 4: Python and friends
When the new cool MacBooks came out, we who are not a part of the Apple cult got a nice benefit. The older style MacBooks, that does not have the glass screen, became quite cheap. A new [...]