I'm a bit new to OS X, having held out on Mac OS 8.6 as long as I could. (I just couldn't resist the Mac Mini!) But there are two things I can't figure out that annoy me:
1) How do I make it automount an AppleTalk file share? My old machine would do that to my AppleTalk enabled Linux machine so I can code Lusternia from the Mac, but this one doesn't have an obvious option to do that.
2) How do I make it auto-launch programs when it logs in? I used to use the Startup Items folder for that to make my e-mail and IM launch when I logged in. I don't know the counterpart to that in Mac OS X.

Anyone know how to get those to work?

Thanks!

Format, install FC3.

No need for that. I use Red Hat on my Celeron box. Of course it's a real Linux install: pure command line, none of the GUI tripe. Real men surf the web, run an MP3 multimedia library, burn CDs, and compile their kernels from the command line.

Now about setting up my Mac OS X...?

Not really. I'll settle with my Winblows XP, with so many bugs and loopholes and worm entrances and knots in the system it gives coders nightmares.

Yay, a Mac OS X user!

To have things auto-launch, go to the System Preferences, then click on the Login Items button (in the Personal menu). There you can select things to run. If it's empty, just click the add button to add applications.

As for the Appletalk thing, I'm not exactly sure. Try checking out the Network preferences, that would be my best suggestion.

YAY ROARK USES A MAAAAC!!!!!!!!!!

For automounting an AppleTalk file server, you should be able to just, when connecting the first time, select "add to keychain" somewhere in the password-entry thing, then drag the icon of the server into your dock. When you click it to open it, it should automatically connect and log in, then mount it on your desktop.

And startup items are under login items, like Veonira said.

That's not quite what I need. I have two fileshares to my Linux server that need to show up, so having two identical icons in the dock would suck. Also, I want it to automount when I login so that TextWrangler can get to it immediately rather than having to click on anything. In the good old days of Mac OS 8.6, I just checked the "Reconnect at startup" button when I mounted it...

Macs, pff.

Windows, .

Just remember that when your harddrive crashes the trash can is only a few steps away.

Oh, and who can play Half-Life 2? Not you!

Um, why play Half Life 2 when you have Lusternia? Though seriously, unless you want to play every friggin' game ever released, there's no loss. The old G3 I just replaced kept me happy over the years with Quake 3, the Doom series, Starcraft, Broodwars, Civilization III, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Descent 1 and 2, the Myth series, the Myst series, Happyweed, etc., etc. And if I wanted to play every friggin' game ever made then I'd get a console. The hardware is cheaper than buying a whole new PC. Buying a PC solely for gaming is dumb with the state of consoles these days.

Now about that fileshare automounting...

Playing every game? No. Playing the best games before they've become years old? Yes

Can't you get Windows emulators anyway? Or is that just Linux?

EDIT: NB. I am on Windows XP and Windows 98 on the two PCs in the house respectively, as I can't buy my own and my parents have even less of a clue about computers than I do (hard as that may be to believe) and as a result are paranoid about anything they're not 100% sure they can control.

I don't know about mounting things on a mac (dirty old people) but I do know f12 and f11 and f10 are really cool shortcut keys when your working with photoshop, dreamweaver, and flash all at the same time.