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qwiddityInserting text. There's a lot of sexual frustration in the unix OS. I'm almost at the point of sheer desperation that I'll even try using WheatoniX.
Maybe not. I'm not sure yet... should wait until the peer review.
Lack of sleep today is putting me in a terrible mood. I can't sleep now becasue I've had to work today and people keep calling me, so I can't sleep becasue I'm in a terrible mood, and its vicious circling itself.
I need a receptionist. Or rather a personal assistant who can deal with all of this stuff before I get to it, so that it doesn't annoy me all that greatly. Accepting applications now. Its unpaid work and a thankless job to boot, so don't go expecting overly much.
1 am hating blogging lately, there's a lot of things that I want to say but they all go unexpressed becasue I can't be bothered typing them out. I have a laptop where I can make these entries while I'm offline with a little effort and I'm too worried about being percieved as antisocial if I whip it out and start journalling.
Well, I'm a misanthropic geek. I'm going to sit in the corner at parties from now on with my laptop trying to bite anyone who comes too close, and you're all going to deal with it, peoples of the world. :)
Maybe not. I'm not sure yet... should wait until the peer review.
Lack of sleep today is putting me in a terrible mood. I can't sleep now becasue I've had to work today and people keep calling me, so I can't sleep becasue I'm in a terrible mood, and its vicious circling itself.
I need a receptionist. Or rather a personal assistant who can deal with all of this stuff before I get to it, so that it doesn't annoy me all that greatly. Accepting applications now. Its unpaid work and a thankless job to boot, so don't go expecting overly much.
1 am hating blogging lately, there's a lot of things that I want to say but they all go unexpressed becasue I can't be bothered typing them out. I have a laptop where I can make these entries while I'm offline with a little effort and I'm too worried about being percieved as antisocial if I whip it out and start journalling.
Well, I'm a misanthropic geek. I'm going to sit in the corner at parties from now on with my laptop trying to bite anyone who comes too close, and you're all going to deal with it, peoples of the world. :)
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Date: 2002-05-12 12:30 pm (UTC)The hardware is solid - I've had a G4 500 titanium powerbook for 9 months, and its the best machine I've ever had, very reliable, good battery life - and built-in wireless ethernet. No antenna sticking out, wires, whatever.
There are loads of solid applications available, I'm quite keen on a thing called RBrowser, which basically allows you to browse remote machines over an SSH connection and do neat things like, use BBEdit (probably the best source code editor around for perl, php, C etc, imho) to edit a file and then automatically save it back to the remote machine. No longer do you need to open up ftp :) Even works with ssh1/2 keys. Hasn't replaced vi for everything, but, its certainly replaced vi for writing large perl scripts.
Anyway. You probably think I'm a raving pro Apple nut ... I'll go away now ... ;)
hrm...
Date: 2002-05-12 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-12 05:00 pm (UTC)Go play with a mac for a while. Play around on the command line .. see if it's you. *shrug*
I couldn't care less what OS people use as long as they are happy with it and it does the job for them.
But, it doesn't stop me from recommending my favorite swiss-army-knife.
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-12 06:15 pm (UTC)*smile*
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-12 06:22 pm (UTC)*grin*
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-12 06:30 pm (UTC)I actually like iBooks, you see. I have been converted slightly.
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-13 06:46 am (UTC)Still prefer my titanium pb though.
What applications do you spend most of your time in? SecureCRT/Tera Term/etc? What OS do you use now, and what is the thing that annoys you most about it?
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-13 04:39 pm (UTC)Although the one I have myself is actually a darn sight smaller and cuter than an iBook... I have a Sony Vaio Picturebook... its so tiny and lovely and sticker-filled at the moment. :)
(I like it anyway)
Terminals. And lately editplus rather than bluefish, but thats because I'm running latest build of NT 5.1 on my laptop to support all the wacky hardware... I have to run a win32 installation usually becasue I'm developing things for win32 platforms only so I do need to see if various web scripts run correctly. I have a fair few web browsers open usually too... IE and Flashpeak Slimbrowser. I watch DVD's and divx movies on my laptop too... take photos, listen to music, record stuff... burn CD's...
Oh and occasionally I use a computer for drawing things. But not a lot lately. :(
The OS I like the most would have to be linux though, preferably debian, although I can see real advantages from using gentoo. The thing that annoys me the most about linux would have to be xwindows. I like the way that you can run xdarwin on an iBook.. *sweet* *hehe*
Re: hrm...
Date: 2002-05-13 06:32 pm (UTC)Terms - there is nothing better than Terminal.app, other than rxvt, for terminal support. It supports ANSI colour and all the weird xterm extensions, such as being able to change your titlebar with a PROMPT_COMMAND variable (its a trick that redhat does, and I use it everywhere to keep track of where I am ...).
I personally use BBedit for editing files, which is basically along the same vein as editplus and bluefish. It's not free, but it's worth the registration fee. (there is BBEdit Lite that you can use indefinately, but you really want the extra features) Once you get used to it, it's incredibly powerful. Teamed with RBrowser to edit files on a remote system via SSH, its a very very powerful tool. Much better than scp'ing your changes over all the time.
Now, as far as the Win32 stuff goes .. well .. you *could* run Virtual PC - I use it for testing pages myself - but it's rather slow. But then, I guess, you'll only be switching to it whenever you need to do your testing. I think you'd need at least a 667Mhz CPU to get anywhere with Virtual PC. I have a 500Mhz and its bearable.
The browsers are OK. I use OmniWeb quite a lot, but IE is standard and works quite well. Steer clear of netscape as it's just as rubbish on OSX as it is on every other platform. I can't believe how badly they've screwed it.
DIVX support on OSX is poor right now. The plugins for quicktime aren't quite there yet. I can get about 60% of the DIVXs I 'find' working under OSX using either vlc or a Quicktime extension. But its nowhere as good as say, Windows, in that regard. I suspect it will get better, especially with all the Linux/FreeBSD guys buying macs these days...
DVD support, on the other hand, is the best. Its flawless. Thank the goddess.
All the rest you want to do, macs are ideal. My camera, for instance, didn't need any drivers. Just plugged it in and Image Capture detected it and could download the images, etc. iTunes rocks for MP3s ... obviously its good for any drawing you want to do (get photoshop 7) ...
You go up a notch for being a debian girl, btw. If I had to run Linux, it would be debian, no questions.
Hmm, lastly, X. XDarwin is pretty cool, and I use it to run some Sun management tools, such as RM6. Personally, I much prefer to run GUI apps that have been written for OSX and use the Cocoa/Carbon APIs - they end up being more stable and more functional. If you insist on running lots of X applications .. well .. get lots of ram :)
Anyway. Nuff of that. I should get some sleep. If you want to ask me more about it all, then feel free to msg me on IRC.