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I just read somewhere that GarageBand takes a lot of space and even when uninstalled there are files everywhere related to it. Uninstall GarageBand then (as root):

find /* -name '*GarageBand*' -exec rm -rvf {} \;

That'll reclaim a good 2GB or so. Also, if you don't have a printer look at removing the contents of /Library/Printers/ for another 2GB (I noticed this before anything else).
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If it comes with loads of audio files then that will take up a lot. You can probably save most of the space by deleting the audio files keep the program.
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Wooo! Yays I got it. I'm typing this message using my new Mac

*dances*

Oh and how do you close an unresponsive program?
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Force quit.

http://www.youthtech.com/techstuff/tech ... cequit.htm

However, on OS X, it's rare that Finder will be unresponsive if an application is. So you can often simply right click the dashboard icon and force quit from that.
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ole wrote:Wooo! Yays I got it. I'm typing this message using my new Mac

*dances*

Oh and how do you close an unresponsive program?
Not really likely to happen too often compared with other OS's but if you're familiar with Linux you'll be sorted anyway. kill or killall works fine and dandy :)
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I'm considering buying a desktop mac, just to check it out. I'll probably buy it for my mom on the condition she lets me poke around on it.

I'm too partial to my pc :(

But the macs and mac osx is so pretty!
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You can Force Quit by pressing Command-Option-Q-Esc.
what is command-option?
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ole wrote:
You can Force Quit by pressing Command-Option-Q-Esc.
what is command-option?
alt + apple + q + esc

Brings up the list open open windows. background tasks should be killed by the command line like in *nix.

Mac-speak refer to alt as "option" and the apple key as "command".
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d11wtq wrote:I've prodded and poked at a few systems in my giddyness to get one and it just makes me want one more. One thing that doe confuse me though is this: They ship with Tiger installed, but somehow over 20GB of disk space is already consumed by the OS and the default apps.... I still don't see what's using so much space and what is safe to free up because the /Applications folder is only about 4GB, yet /Library is over 9GB. You must be able to free a lot of that space up.
You can also save 2.2GB by removing the unused language files
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d11wtq wrote:
ole wrote:
You can Force Quit by pressing Command-Option-Q-Esc.
what is command-option?
alt + apple + q + esc

Brings up the list open open windows. background tasks should be killed by the command line like in *nix.

Mac-speak refer to alt as "option" and the apple key as "command".
Got it, thanks.
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I've got a linux server pc running samba (and obviously apache, PHP etc.) with a server name of "ezme". This means that I am able to type http://ezme in firefox and get straight through to apache. On my mac this doesn't work because it doesn't recognise "ezme" as 192.168.0.4 unless its got smb:// in front of it.

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The location may not be the same, but on a std linux install it'd be '/etc/hosts'
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location was the same. thank you very much. :)
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ole wrote:location was the same. thank you very much. :)
Note that's just a symlink. It's /private/etc/hosts in reality. I'm not sure why they screwed around with the filesystem like this. I imagine just to try and be different.
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d11wtq wrote:You can Force Quit by pressing Command-Option-Q-Esc.
It is actually just Command-Option-Esc...no Q required
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