Claimer(dis optional): Social type sites make me nervous, forums such as this included. Apologies in advance if I miss something obvious when it comes to user protocol or ettiqutte, I'm simply not good at things that even similar to social media.

I have very few classes or documented knowledge areas under my belt currently. I mostly try out and compare similar applications, tweak settings and generally push machines until they have to be reset and I start over again. I find that to be a satisfying and entertaining way to learn about how things work.

I'm most familiar with Windows, have a working knowledge of *NIX and know almost nothing about Apple, except that it seems to bee like a mix between parts of Linux and parts of Windows and people arereally stoked on apple machines and willing to spend a lot of money on them.

(I'm guessing that I will make it through at most a total of 3 questions asked and 5 answers posted before I freak out and ditch this forum as well :P Let's find out)