Scott solved my registration problem. Thank you, Scott. Gotta appreciate a machine with a community built into it.

It’s doing some heavy updating now. I can see the desktop underneath it. Oooh!

The battery icon tells me that the machine arrived 100% charged. Nice. I’m going to take advice from MR (proferred through email, hence the slight cloaking) of letting it discharge entirely overnight, and then charge it up again.

Playing around with the local network: It finds my Windows desktop machine (“Honker”). Nice. But it tells me that the alias “Honker” could not be opened because the original item cannot be found. I can delete or fix the alias. Going for the fix…Hmm, now it wants to know the item that I want “Honker” to open, I was expecting (hoping) to see items on my PC desktop, but instead I seem to be seeing default Mac folders (desktop, documents, library, etc.).

Try again. More luck. It finds the public folders on Honker. Yay! Not letting me connect to them yet. I may actually have to read the manual. The scandal!

By the way, Joi Ito has, accurately, told me that I shouldn’t write about using Macs because it makes me stupid. He’s totally right. My expectations are high about Macs being dead simple, and thus I am easily disappointed.

Random questions: I’m going to the UK in a week. I assume people make power adapter cords for UK plugs. What’s a good place to get one cheap and fast?

Also, I have a DC adapter for airplanes for my Thinkpad. What’s the cheapest/fastest equivalent for the Mac?

(I can Google and find this stuff out, but you may know good places to buy. Besides, if you post it here, maybe others will find it, too.) [Tags: macintosh]

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