[X4U] New Member

[Daly Jessup]

At 11 38  -0800 12/26/07, Ernest De Leon wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>
>     I am the proud owner of a brand new 24" iMac 2.8 gHz model. 
>Well, actually I bought it for my girlfriend for Christmas, but 
>since it's in our home, it's 'both of ours.'  I've been toying 
>around with it for two days now, and I really like it.  I joined 
>this list to learn a little more about Macs and OSX.  The last time 
>I used a Mac was in the early 90s.  I believe it was OS version 7 or 
>so.  I had AOL on it (back when you paid by the minute.)  I miss 
>those old days of computing, but I'm glad to see that Mac has come 
>so far.  I'm still learning all of the new stuff that this Mac has 
>on it, and I'm sure I will be learning for a while to come.  I work 
>as a Systems Architect in the San Francisco bay area, mainly working 
>with large web application infrastructures.  I primarily work with 
>Linux/Unix and Windows based architectures, so this new Mac will be 
>another trick up my sleeve in the future - I hope.  I've read that 
>OSX is based on BSD, and from what I've seen working within the 
>terminal, it's very similar to *nix environments I've worked in 
>before.  If you have any recommendations for the new Mac owner to 
>come up to speed with the OS and such, please pass them along.  I 
>also develop a lot in python, so if Mac has a built in python 
>interpreter and maybe a nice editor, I would be elated.

You're going to have a lot of fun. Perhaps this web site has, or will 
lead you to, what you are looking for:

<http://www.python.org/download/mac/>

Daly
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