meliflous moaning from the depths of my heart's despair...

[qwiddity]

Inserting 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. :)

Comments

[anskiere.livejournal.com]

Plan9! :)

[ancksunamun.livejournal.com]

I'm good at organising you :P

[chiqui.livejournal.com]

*puts her hand up to work for quiddy quid quid*

[chromed.livejournal.com]

As a unix admin, and someone who has used it pretty much every day for the past 9 months, OSX is good. Its stable, has most of the common command line utilities you want (and more, if you want, with Fink - a dselect/apt interface to install packages) the gui is uncluttered and clean - I much prefer the single shared menu bar for all apps rather than a menu bar in each window. Etc.

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 ... ;)