I had the opportunity to sample Mac OS X 10.5.1 (and 10.5.2) recently. Here's some random observations and conclusions. YMMV.

• Apple is obsessed with UI and it shows (in a good way). The 'fit and finish' is very nice.
• I don't like its limiting of window resize handles to the lower-right corner. I don't want to move the mouse that far, when it is near the top-left corner of a window. NADBBA. (Not A Deal-Breaker, But Annoying.)

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Login Request Form

Account Type = CUID

Orgatization = Information Technology

Department = UNIX OS Level Access Other

Application = UNIX OS Other

Request Type = Add

User CUID = My own CUID (even though I don't want to give it the access)

Click ADD, then click Next to advance to the App Attributes step.

Fill in some App Attributes and click Next to advance to the final page.

In the special instructions field, explain that you don't want an ID for yourself, but you want ftguser to be created.

• Visit https://mylogins.edc.cingular.net/login.cfm and login
• Click the Login Request Form link
• Select Account Type = CUID, Organization = Information Technology, Department = UNIX OS Level Access Other
• Select Application = UNIX OS Other
• Select Request Type = Add
• Press the Next button
• Enter your User CUID and press Search
• Click Next

I'm fiddling around with VMWare Player and VirtualBox VMs.  Naturally, I wanted to see if I could network between the two.  The following seems to work. (VB=VirtualBox; VW=VMWare)

Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard). Disk drive LED flashes once a second -- even when booted in single user mode.  Work-around is to always have an optical disk in the DVD drive.

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