Easy, nano doesnt have a h.264/MP4 decoder = No video.

Quote: Originally Posted by Thain Esh Kelch Easy, nano doesnt have a h.264/MP4 decoder = No video. Hey my name is Thain Esh Kelch and I don't know what I'm talking about, so…

Well i was at the store ( the friggin 100th store ), and i finally find an ipod.. used unfortunately but w/e, it looks fine, and seems to work fine (worst case, i return it for a n…

My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me of when I used to use a Commodore 64, ma…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me…

Sorry, I feel kinda stupid here... this IS the Unix forum!

MacOS X has a full unix underpinning. Legally, neither OS X, Darwin nor Linux are unix (because it is a trademark), so sometimes they are called *nix. With OS X, you don't need a…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski My windows to Mac transformation is complete. I will never go back. However, I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me…

Quote: andreadeca: Sorry, I feel kinda stupid here... this IS the Unix forum! Made ME look! Anyway, I built a "crappy PC" with which to learn Linux. I dow…

I am now taking some online unix tutorials & creating/moving files. I do have an external drive, I thought maybe I would try to install linux on there, as long as I can boot fr…

I can think of a couple reasons to go with "linux on a cheap box" 1. you will learn a lot about the guts of the computer. A mac is like a mercedes, you never have to look under th…

Quote: Originally Posted by n0tjcs what are you trying to learn? the majority of the things you'd use linux or a *bsd (freebsd, netbsd, openbsd) for are already available in ma…

Quote: Originally Posted by Gavin I can think of a couple reasons to go with "linux on a cheap box" 1. you will learn a lot about the guts of the computer. A mac is like a merc…

There's also a few free linux and unix shell accounts available too: http://freeshell.org http://nixsys.bz http://www.atshell.com There are more around. You can get try out a lo…

you can dive in head first by skipping the GUI on OS X in accounts:login options set display window to name and password log out. in the name field type: >console that's a grea…

if you've had some experience with unix/linux (and can follow directons closely) you could try gentoo linux. it was my first linux experience and i installed it on a crappy hp, but…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski I am starting to become interested in Terminal. It reminds me of when I used to use a Commodore 64, many many moons ago... I was told by a …

This is great stuff. I bought my first Unix book (written for Tiger) and it was great emailing from the command line. The will definately be doing more in Unix on my imac before sh…

Usually you can see the user folder but not the contents. That's how it is in most linux setups. OS X seems to let you see the folders inside a user's folder but not the content of…

Excellent UNIX (and Linux) book for total beginners: UNIX Made Easy by John Muster. This was my intro to UNIX, and it inspired me to get a Bachelor's in Computer Science, and now I…

Here's some more unix links to help get you going. As others have mentioned, linux is essentially a particular flavor of unix. In fact, the operating system is really GNU/Linux, …

You might find this one handy as well. http://bhami.com/rosetta.html Lots of dangerous information there, but all very useful when you have a mix of Sun, HP, IBM and Apple equipm…

this might be helpful also. http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/index.ws good luck

Thanks for all the help. I am now using unix regularly. The links are helpful as I've worked my way though my 1st book, and am looking for more learning. I am now working on Pine f…

In my opinion, the most useful thing about the command line is scripting. The single most helpful reference I've found for scripting is Mendel Cooper's Advanced Bash-Scripting Gui…