I used a Mac for the first time in my life today. I’m probably going to be using them a lot more in the coming months as their use is required for my English 110 class. The ones we’re using are the slightly old eMacs. They’re using the newest version of OS X. I like it. My deeper sense of the evil of closed source software makes me want to hate it, but I’m a sucker for a clean, beautiful interface. I mean, really beautiful. I’m being wooed to the dark side.
Just thought I’d let you all know that a story of mine has been published on 365 tomorrows. Check it out if you get the chance.
There are a few commands that a Linux user should never type into the terminal. Among them is “rm - r *”. This should especially not be typed into your home directory. I, unfortunately, did this just a few minutes ago. I thought I was in my Desktop, but I was a little off. I realized my mistake in time to save all of my important files, but not in time to save about half of my music collection. Some of what was destroyed I have backed up on CD or on my MP3 player, but the rest is going to have to be re-downloaded. Oh well. I guess it could have been worse.
Note: To any curious people, the “rm” command is short for “remove” and adding “-r *” tells the computer to remove everything in the current directory. Like taking an eraser to your hard drive.
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