So as the horrible Linux Fanboy I am,  I have an iPhone 3g. And as you would expect it is jailbroken and runs the currently newest firmware(2.2.1). Now when I upgraded from 2.2 i experienced a minor decreased battery time and an amazingly slow boot. It pretty much went from 3o seconds to around 65 seconds. I was very curious as to why this happened so I googled and found that it was possible to set a verbose boot on the iPhone in the same way you could with a mac. So i ssh’d into the devise and as root i did a nvram boot-args="-v" as described here and expected to see why the boot was taking so long. And now this is were it got interesting. I did not get a verbose boot as I expected, but my iPhone now boots in 30 seconds again. I have no idea why. Because the only thing that the command should do is to add the -v (verbose flag) to the boot. So if anybody knows why, please let me know! but.. now it boots fast

So what’s the worst thing a Linux fanboy can do? Well, I bought a Macbook Pro and I guess thats pretty bad, but to fix my broken karma I’ll write a blog-post to tell the world what a Linux user should do if  he buys a mac:

1. The first thing that made me feel all non-geeky was the behavior of the terminal. So I went and got my hands on iTerm . First of all I wanted to use Bash: Open iTerm, hit BookMarks –> Manage Bookmarks and change the default command to “/bin/bash”. Now we’re all set and can just punch in a “.bashrc” file in the user-folder.  To my great joy, I also found that sudo works fine and a .ssh file in the user-folder does the same trick as in linux.
2. I really was not comfirtable with the OSX none verbose boot so I went to “/System/Library/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist” and added “-v” in the kernelflags. It’s not pretty but it works for me.
3. I tried for one whole week to get used to Safari but I failed, the impossible shortcut to get to the google searchbar, the insanely stupid setup where shortcut “command + number” goes to bookmark “number”. Now thats a bug, not a feature. -> Get firefox, imho its just as fast.
4. In linux (Ubuntu) I’m used to being able to set keyboard shortcuts to all kinds of stuff, like the screensaver for instance. This was not so easy in OSX untill I got my hands on QuickSilver which gave me the chance to create custom “Triggers” by; Open QuickSilver and hit triggers in the tiny dropdown menu on the right of the launchbox. Add a trigger for “/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Version/A/ScreenSaver”. There is no end to what you can do!
5. Other apps you should get your hands on is Growl for notifications, Audium which is Pidgin for OSX, Smultron for source code editing and on of the greatest TeXshop for developing documents in LaTeX with an amazing amount of help.
6. Another thing I really miss in OSX is the Package manager, in my case Aptitiude. Yes I know there exists a few, but Apple should have integrated this.  When I uninstall stuff I want everything to be gone, AppTrapp helps me to do this in OSX by getting rid of all the extra stuff Apps usually leave behind.

So all in all I’m pretty happy with my Macbook since everything has worked pretty flawelessly. But I have to say that I still feel a little dirty, caught between Linux and OSX, <tacky> the two great loves of my life! </tacky>

So this is my first blogpost this year, on my fresh wordpress blog. I’ll be posting som general tips&tricks and info about my master thesis, when I find one! Nuf’ said..