Funny, I happen to buy a big 1TB disk and decided to format it with ext3 after the disaster that NFS caused during the cut and copy from my old machine. And now here I am on an alien box and trying to figure out how to access my ext3 file system.

Some pointers on the web:

• Mount Ext2/Ext3 Linux volumes in the Finder http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090709111316445
• How to mount ext2/ext3 Linux Volumes in Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) with Read/Write access http://www.thewireframecommunity.com/node/174

A combination of that, a bit of retries did make it work finally. Plugin the ext3 disk and start using it. Smooth.

Not too different if you are moving from Linux. Except you have to replace ctrl with cmd short key most of the times.

Mac Keyboard Shortcuts: http://www.danrodney.com/mac/

And the best of them which needed some research and for which people are literally dying for - how to lock the screen: shift+ctrl+eject

One more step closer to my good ol’ ubuntu setup - Bash completion.

Some quick links:

• Bash completion for mac osx: http://meinit.nl/bash-completion-mac-os-x
• For maven: http://willcode4beer.com/tips.jsp?set=tabMaven
• Git completion: http://www.codethatmatters.com/2010/01/git-autocomplete-in-mac-os-x/

I step into the Hortonworks office and the first thing that they do is a conversion of my religion. They put into my lap a Mac Book pro and say nothing else can be done.

I am sure they did this only because they know way too well how big a fan(boy) I am of linux/ubuntu ;)

Here I go off, whining, hissing and trying to convert this machine to my linux setup as much as possible.