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I’ve decided to make my own mouse, because I like hardware and there is an artistic element to the project.

I now own my first Apple computer. After a week of debate with my inter demons, I pulled the trigger on a 24″ imac 3.06Ghz core 2 duo.

The imac kind of goes against everything I’ve ever wanted. I haven’t bought a put-together PC let alone an “all-in-one” machine in over 10 years. I’ve built dozens maybe even hundreds of machines at this point in my life. So… Why? Whenever I move it seems like I’ve collected more machines than the last time I moved. There is always (and almost overwhelming) collection of hardware which I have kept for the last few years.

I have less and less time to muck around with multiple machines and keep things for the sake of “oh thats going to be part of project z.” I had to consolidate… I got rid of my Pentium II machine I was using as a pf firewall and local dns, an other machine that was a frankenpix, and two micro-itx machines which were once a car computer, and a mythtv set top box.

Although I never thought I would buy a all-in-once machine ever, like ever… I really enjoy it. If I want to accomplish a task I can write a bash script and run it with cron, but if I want to watch movies and need a nice UI.. I have it.

Software I think is good… (many suggestions via decavolt)

• Quicksilver
• Little Snitch
• Griffin powermate
• KeePassX
• MarsEdit is not as good as Windows Live Writer
• Vmware Fusion

I hate the trash can… simple bash script to run in cron (runs on the 59th minute of every hour everyday:

59 * * * 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 /bin/rm -rf /Users/akonkol/.Trash/*

I’ve found there isn’t a lot of good freeware for Mac, useful programs you would find in a Windows environment for free are usually about $30-$40 in the mac world. Because of my current environment and a bet at work.. I’ve started learning ruby on rails… I’m also making a mouse.