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Let’s be honest - Apple has gained a lot in market share last year, so there are plenty of former Windows users who just switched to the Mac. This tutorial is for those new switchers who never had the courage to open up Terminal, OSX’s most underrated power-tool. This tutorial is not for the Linux/Unix gurus, but for the casual daily worked who wants to improve his computer operating skills and

First, the basics: you probably remember Windows Command Prompt, though chances are you never had to use it. Well now, Terminal is like Command Prompt on steroids. This is because Apple’s OSX is built around Unix, the most powerful geek-oriented Operating System ever, but with a nice-looking user-friendly gift-wrap. The result? OSX is an operating system that kicks Window’s buttocks any time of the day. Chances are you’ll never have to use Terminal, but I strongly suggest it - as any real Power User will tell you, mastering the command prompt commands is the ultimate swiss-knife for the computer geek.

In today’s lesson you’ll learn to start the Terminal, move around, look around, open up things from within and remove things.

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Take it easy and don’t get too excited: This is not a collection of tips on how to get waisted, it’s just the opposite:

If you’re young and don’t have a personal or religious problem with alcohol, then the truth is that you’ll eventually drink some. Depending on your entourage, even a lot of: You’ll go to parties where people drink beer, whiskey, wine or others. You’ll end up seeing guys running naked in the backyard, girls throwing their drunken guts out, or even - God forbid - teenagers falling into alcoholic coma. You DON’T want to be one of them. Being dead drunk may seem exciting for an US 21 year old going in a bar with his first REAL ID card, but it’s NOT.

Like most guys around, I occasionally get to a bar with a bunch of friends, talking, joking, and drinking beers. I’ve even had my 18′th birthday in a bar(yes, it’s legal in most countries but the US), my college graduation and most special events. In my entire life, I only got sick two times because of drinking too much beer. I’ve never fallen unconscious, I was always able to walk back home, most frequently soberer than my friends.

The following tips come from my feeble experience, some of them were taught to me by my father when I first went to a party, some of them by my friends, some of them it’s just stuff I learned around. So… how can you survive an alcohol drinking party with just enough soberness not to feel bad, sick, or fall prey to embarrassing events?

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