1. power management: works now. no excuses there. 2. kenote: don't know about this, but there are so many choices in this space now. c'mon. 3. ubuntu 8.04 a

1. power management: works now. no excuses there. 2. kenote: don't know about this, but there are so many choices in this space now. c'mon. 3. ubuntu 8.04 and above are ok with this now. i do it all the time. 4. i'ts more of a bsd-flavored unix. i guess that's ok. 5. macports suck and you know it. 6. time machine: well, i guess that's convenient but i don't know in which format time machines store data. that makes me nervous. here, just copy and paste this. use it EVEN if you have time machine. $source="mysource"; $destination="mydestination" rsync --archive --delete $source $destination i'll throw in the cron entry too for every day at 2am (put the above in run-backup.sh) # m h dom mon dow command 0 2 * * * /sbin/admin/run-backup.sh now, if you like your macbook because you like how pretty it is (which i'm guessing is the real reason) then enjoy it.