Specific things I DON’T like:
Learning new keyboard shortcuts, lack of games (not that I could run much on this little guy), lack of good, free, text and image editors, lack of IE for testing web development.

Specific things I DO like:
Sleep mode with a quick restart, stability (I ran 10 days without restarting), quiet hardware, Spaces, Xcode, Spotlight and application help search, installing a printer in one step, ease of installing applications, clean look and feel, lack of IE.

Some especially helpful links for people switching from Windows to Mac OS X:
How to Switch to the Mac
A guide for switching to a Mac
Getting Started with Mac

Here are some notes on what I’ve found useful for different applications:
Web Browser: I still love Firefox, but Safari isn’t too bad either (certainly better than Internet Explorer).
Instant Messaging: I’m loving Adium.  If it worked on Windows, I’d use it at work.
Music Player: iTunes seems to do the job, but I’m not completely thrilled with it.
Mail Client: The built in Mail app doesn’t seem too bad.  I’m still thinking about installing Thunderbird.
Software Development: Only Xcode so far for Objective-C.  I’d like to try out Python and Ruby soon.
FTP Client: FileZilla, just like on Windows.  I’ve also looked at Cyberduck, but didn’t really like the interface.
Text Editor: I’m evaluating TextMate (it looks like it might be worth the $60).  I also tried Smultron and jEdit, but it didn’t seem to be quite enough.
Subversion Client: I’m using SCPlugin as my TortoiseSVN replacement.  From what I can tell, it works.  I’m also trying svnX, but I think I like the more integrated style of SCPlugin.

If you know of a must-have app that I’m missing, please let me know.  I’d love to get an image editor that I can love as much as Paint.NET.

As far as services go, I’ve been looking for a nice hosted Subversion service after hearing about Beanstalk somewhere.  After reading about at least 20 different services, I ended up trying out assembla and DevjaVu.  Unfuddle also came in high on my list.  They all seem pretty good.  Which one is best probably depends on your requirements.  I’m liking how much space (1GB) that you can get for free from DevjaVu.

1 pint Heavy Cream
1 cup Sugar
2/3 cup Powdered Cocoa
1 tsp. Cayenne (ground)
1 tsp. Cinnamon (ground)
1 tsp. Chili Powder

Mix all of the ingredients in a microwave safe bowl.  Microwave for two minutes at a time stirring each time until the sugar dissolves.  Don’t boil (I don’t know what will happen if you do).  Place the mixture in the refrigerator for a couple hours to chill.  Mix according to your ice cream maker’s instructions.  Makes about 1 quart.

Variations:
The above version was quite spicy.  It starts of tasting very chocolaty, but within 10 seconds, it leaves a nice burn on the back of your throat.  If you only want a hint of heat, you spices to either 1/2 or 1/4 teaspoon each.

I wish I’d thought to add mini marshmallows sooner.  I think they’d make a great addition.  Just throw in a handful right before the ice cream is done churning to mix in.

1. Go to your Settings/Filters page and create a new filter.
2. In the Has the words field enter “is:unread” (without quotes), and click the Next Step button.
3. You’ll get a message warning you that this type of filter won’t be applied to new mail, but that’s OK.  Click OK to continue.
4. Check the boxes next to Mark as read and Also apply filter to … conversations below.
5. Click Create Filter button, and you’re done.  You might want to should delete the filter once you finish since it won’t be needing it anymore.

Update: Thanks everyone in the comments and at Lifehacker for pointing out the easier way to do this.  You learn something new every day.

NorthEast Energy Advisors

For fun, I put together a very simple, four question personality test.  Give it a try and let me know what you think.  Have you take tests like this before?  How accurate do they think they are?  How accurate was mine?

1. A long photo
2. Personal
3. Simple – not overproduced or slick
4. Possibly the best answer so far: The Great Unknown

They have a limit of 90 seconds which is really going to limit things and definitely pushes the medium in the “long photo” direction.  I’ve uploaded a bunch of old videos and some new ones.  One of them, a video of a cuttlefish at the Sydney Aquarium set to music got noticed by someone on the Flickr team and got listed as one of their favorites, so I’m pretty happy about that.

“Code Monkey”
“Still Alive”
“I Feel Fantastic”
“Skullcrusher Mountain”
“Re Your Brains”
“Creepy Doll”
“I Crush Everything”
“The Future Soon”
“Mr. Fancy Pants”
“Mandelbrot Set”

My favorites list would have gone on, but I really wanted to set some limit, and 10 is customary. You can listen to any of the songs for free, many of them are available for free download as MP3, and some have great fan created videos (especially Code Monkey, and I Feel Fantastic), so be sure to check them out.

I think it’s pretty, and somewhat useful. I think I’ll try to make a predictor that can classify based on the four regions to see how well it does. I’d guess that it’ll do only slightly better than always picking one average or the other as the prediction. I’m pretty sure that most of the data is clustered near the dark area in the middle where the model is least effective.

Update: I’ve added some analysis in the Flickr comments, so be sure to check that out if you’re interested.

So, once again, for historical notes, here are the specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz
4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
GeForce 8800GT Extreme 512MB
1TB (2 x 500GB) 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drives
Windows Vista Home Premium

1) Go to the command line.
2) View the shutdown command’s documentation (type “shutdown /?”)

It will print the help document starting with:
Usage: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f]
[/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c “comment”]]

There’s one small error where it shows the syntax for the /d option “[/d [p|u:]xx:yy”.  The colon (:) should be after the bracket (ie “[/d [p|u]:xx:yy”).  The current text is saying to only use the colon if you are specifying ‘u’ for unplanned, but it’s really required for both p and u.