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meliflous moaning from the depths of my heart's despair...
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. :)
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. :)
Re: hrm...
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.