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This afternoon I installed mrtg on my iMac. I used darwin ports, so it was really easy and probably took 45 minutes. DarwinPorts installed mrtg and it's dependencies (gd, libpng, and zlib). After the install was done I copied my mrtg.cfg file over, and edit my contrab with this line "@reboot /opt/local/bin/mrtg /opt/local/bin/steve.cfg."

This allowed my to turn off my Linux box. My office is dead quiet right now. My keyboard stokes and mouse clicks have never seems so loud. I used to have two PCs running nonstop. Now, I'm down to one iMac that hardly makes a sound.

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Last week I bought an iMac with a 20" display. So far I absolutely love the system. The screen is and case are beautiful. I think I've finally got the system set up the way I want it. The first problem I had to solve was how to keep the iMac synchronized with the other machines in my home.

Here's my work flow, and it's kind of a beautiful thing:

1. I download pictures from my digital camera
2. The photos are imported into iPhoto on my 12" Powerbook
3. I plug in my iPod, and the photos are automatically copied to my 5th Gen iPod (60 GB)
4. The I run psync x , to update iPhoto on my iMac with the latest pics
5. I'm sharing my iPhoto library across multiple accounts , so my Wife also gets the latest photos in her iPhoto

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Last Wednesday Apple released Boot Camp a product that allows you to dual boot an Intel based Macintosh into Windows XP. This is a great option for me because I have a lot of Windows software and video games. Now I can have one computer that I can use in both Operating Systems.

Last night I bought a 20" iMac. It has a 2.0 Core Duo processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard drive, ATI Radeon X1600 256MB GDDR3 SDRAM video card. This should be a nice Machine. Most of the time my family and I will use OS X. I plan to use Windows to play some video games. That's why I upgraded the video card. My new computer should ship on Tuesday, and arrive on Thursday.

My 12" powerbook has been a great machine, and I'll continue to keep using it as my primary computer. This iMac will replace my AMD machine that I got for Christmas in 2001. It will be the primary computer for the wife and kids. I'll use it when I don't feel like taking out the laptop, or when I want to play games to edit video, and for things I don't even know about yet. I can't wait!

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