Harlequin Training

Course Content

• Mac OS X history
• Mac OS 9 and Cooperative
• Multitasking
• Mac OS X and Pre-emptive Multitasking and Protected
• Memory
• Mac OS X Symmetric Multiprocessing
• Components of Mac OS X
• The layers within the operating system
• Darwin, Mach, OpenGL, BSD UNIX
• Core Services
• Graphic Services, Quicktime, Quartz
• Application Environments
• Classic, Carbon, Cocoa, Java Support
• Aqua
• System Requirements for Installation
• Mac models supported/not supported
• Peripheral devices, e,g, external drives,
• Firewire, USB, Floppies
• Hard Disc Initialisation options
• UFS and HFS+
• The three installation options
• Mac OS X Setup Assistant
• Mac OS 9 and Classic Environment
• Defining users and access privileges
• System Preferences
• Finder Preferences
• The Dock
• Aqua interface –finding your way around
• Spotlight
• Dashboard
• Safari
• Automator
• Creating new folders
• Moving, copying, deleting files
• View Options
• Using Applications
• Log in/Log out
• Configuring Internet Access, PPP connect, using DHCP server, E-mail
• Software Updates
• Basic Networking, configuring TCP/IP addresses
• Installing/Choosing a Printer
• Where do the fonts go?
• Boot up options –Unix and Mac OS X,
• File System, Terminal Mode, Verbose
• Mode, Single User Mode
• Enabling Root
• Some basic Unix Commands