Mac OS X Unwired: A Guide for Home, Office, and the Road

The screenshots (and their accompanying descriptions) in this book are mainly from Mac OS X 10.3, also known as Panther. In most cases, you'll find that the descriptions will still work fine for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar).

This book uses the following abbreviations:

Hz, kHz, MHz, and GHz

Hertz (cycles per second), kilohertz (one thousand hertz), megahertz (one million hertz), and gigahertz (one billion, or 10 ⁹ hertz)

bps, kbps, Mbps

Bits per second, kilobits (1024 bits) per second, and megabits (1,048,576 bits) per second

KB/s, MB/s

Kilobytes (1024 bytes) per second and megabytes (1,048.576 bytes) per second

This book uses the following typographic conventions:

Constant width

Constant width is used for listing the output of command-line utilities.

Italic

Italic is used for emphasis, for first use of a technical term , and for example URLs.

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Ellipses indicate text that has been omitted for clarity.