Linus Torvalds, technology whore 1702

I hooked up a two-button trackball to 3 of them. They all work fine, and use both buttons.

The commandline is hidden as deep as they thought they could get away with burying it and still having plausible deniability. It's in (from You can create an "alias" (another name for a link, another Macism that is designed to pretend they are "different" from the rest of we underclbutted goons) and put it somewhere useful. In fact, the best thing is to create a folder for useful things and attach it to the dock, then get rid of most of the useless tripe that's there by default: IE, Addressbook, iTunes, etc. While you're there, you can put the MICROS~1 crap completely.

I say to use a folder because once you get rid of the crap that's already on the dock, install a few useful apps and put them on the dock, find the hidden ones and put those there, the dock gets full and crowded really fast. A folder neatens things up considerably.

Them Macindolts do love their docks busy, I suppose. We regular folk* might prefer something a little less busy.

My instructions above might not apply. The terminal may-may not have been introduced after that version of OS X.

It should. I've used 3 different models of trackballs (2 of them Logitech), a whole slew of ordinary, generic mice, an Alps touchpad, a couple of different tablets. None of them gave any particular problems. Even generic USB keyboards will work except for a couple of keys. Those are only usually important if you stray away from using the pointy- clicky method and stick as much as possible to the keyboard. The point being, youcanget by with an alternative keyboard in an emergency.

Logitech also makes a few keyboards that work with both x86 and Mac. Too bad I haven't been able to find a wireless that does both, though.

buttuming, of course, you're interested in all that. I personally like to play with things. After I played with the Mac for awhile I stopped being impressed by it. I still see their tower hardware as being pretty solid stuff (though, it's troubling to find generic replacement parts for the internals). And I'm not overly impressed after playing around with OS X, and the hardware isn't solid enough to warrant the extra expense in my view.

The Mac machine to my right became a place to store my ripped music. Since that's the only purpose it's serving any more, I had no qualms about switching machines with little Sinister when his kept crashing while he was playing with his learning stuff.

* This automatically excludes most Windross "power users" and "gurus" because the only thing that makes them "power users" and "gurus" is their ability to punch icons really quickly, and to tell others how to push them around the screen.

-- Use Microsoft Windows(tm). It's not like you needed those rights or that money anyway.