Also, I know some of you play WoW from Linux, anyone wanna post how they did it through Wine? I never tried WoW under linux, I did try Photoshop, but failed.
It gets better when you for example can delete a number of lines (or any arbitrary size/length of characters) with one keystroke from here to there right in the middle of the document without grabbing your mouse or holding shift for 10 seconds.
Yeah, I know how to do that. Thing is, I seldom do that kind of editting, since I don't code from scratch. I'm way more likely to shift-pageup, shift-pagedown, etc to select blocks.
Understand that I'm not saying there's not an advantage. I'm saying that I am lazy and don't do enough editting to make it worth remembering all the keycodes. :)
I find that click, scroll, shift-click works great for selecting large blocks :P
And as for OS's... main comp's Vista, work server is Ubuntu. Do all my dev on the Vista box, via samba, X and Synergy (tho I rarely ever actually use the desktop on the ubu box)
I find that click, scroll, shift-click works great for selecting large blocks :P
And as for OS's... main comp's Vista, work server is Ubuntu. Do all my dev on the Vista box, via samba, X and Synergy (tho I rarely ever actually use the desktop on the ubu box)
Eh, forgot to mention this. My laptop is running Xubuntu happily. My desktop dual-boots Xubuntu and XP. XP is for gaming and the occasional photoshop visit. (Sometimes I just can't do what I wanna do with Gimp, probably because I am so used to photoshop.)
Eh, forgot to mention this. My laptop is running Xubuntu happily. My desktop dual-boots Xubuntu and XP. XP is for gaming and the occasional photoshop visit. (Sometimes I just can't do what I wanna do with Gimp, probably because I am so used to photoshop.)
Hahaha.. Photoshop is my main stay in XP reason (other then steam games :P Never did get WIne running, never tried a lot either).
I got Photoshop to load, but it got upset at lack of registry key. I couldn't get the exported key to import directly into Wine, and I haven't really messed with it again recently. It might behave with newer versions of Wine, for all I know.
Fine. Only issue I have had is bluetooth drivers (Vista's stack is gimped and doesn't handle audio). Gave up on that and got a USB-wired headset. Took maybe 30min to find the Vista hotfix to get it working.
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Hahaha.. Photoshop is my main stay in XP reason (other then steam games :P Never did get WIne running, never tried a lot either).
WoW is my primary reason. I know it can run on linux... but... ugh... effort.... everything takes a week of tweaking to get working on linux...
TortSVN was another big holdover for me, but I've taken a great liking to git and git-gui... couple that with git-svn and, well, I have no reason to stick with pure SVN anymore.
Trillian and Foobar2000 and my last linux holdovers. I hate Pidgin, and I've not found an acceptable replacement for Foob (yes yes I know, wine, whatever)... It doesn't help that I'm in the Trill Astra alpha either :)
Oh and I use Quickbooks for my accounting and billing for work, but that's a minor issue. I could run that on my server via remote desktop if I really wanted to. Hell I'd take a nice clean replacement for it on Linux too. Just need basic invoicing to send to my boss to get mah moniez.
Trillian and Foobar2000 and my last linux holdovers. I hate Pidgin, and I've not found an acceptable replacement for Foob (yes yes I know, wine, whatever)... It doesn't help that I'm in the Trill Astra alpha either :)
Oh and I use Quickbooks for my accounting and billing for work, but that's a minor issue. I could run that on my server via remote desktop if I really wanted to. Hell I'd take a nice clean replacement for it on Linux too. Just need basic invoicing to send to my boss to get mah moniez.
I'm dealing with Pidgin and really missing Miranda. It's my fave IM proggie hands-down, and while the base program would run fine in Wine, the plugins and stuff start griping.
From what I've read, there is no perfect replacement for Quickbooks in the linux world. I did a looksee once for a friend of mine who runs a sideline consulting gig. There's also a Quickbooks Online edition, though I don't know much of anything about it. Maybe GnuCash or Quasar? I only use a Quicken replacement, so I can't help ya with invoicing.
Oh I hate quickbooks. It's an overboard attempt to do everything a business would ever need plus still be usable by idiots that know nothing of basic double-entry accounting. In the end all I need is simple double-entry accounting and some sort of invoice renderer. Hell, Kevin would probably be fine with plaintext invoices, he just needs proof that I'm being paid as a contractor and he doesn't have to pay my income taxes.
Why the heck do I like finding software so much? Even if it's not something I'm personally using, I just love going on software hunts.
Man...double-entry accounting...most people really don't get that. I figured this out when I was doing conversions into proprietary financial software. (It was for school districts, and they have this whole slew of weird rules they have to follow.) I knew how it worked, but I don't think I really 'got it' until I had to make their accounts balance...assuming they really balanced, of course. Our trainers actually used this as an attempt to teach some folks to keep books properly. "No, our conversion programmer can't just put that number there. If you get audited, you have no proof of why it's there."
trainer, sighing: "Can you load their opening entries again without touching what they've done since then?"
me: "Yes, but this is the third time. Next time they ask, I'm going onsite do it personally with a baseball bat."
Sorry for the rambling. The mention of double-entry accounting brought back some fond-but-excruciating memories. Um, it's General Chat? Yes, I shall claim that as my perfectly logical reason for rambling.
Why the heck do I like finding software so much? Even if it's not something I'm personally using, I just love going on software hunts.
Man...double-entry accounting...most people really don't get that. I figured this out when I was doing conversions into proprietary financial software. (It was for school districts, and they have this whole slew of weird rules they have to follow.) I knew how it worked, but I don't think I really 'got it' until I had to make their accounts balance...assuming they really balanced, of course. Our trainers actually used this as an attempt to teach some folks to keep books properly. "No, our conversion programmer can't just put that number there. If you get audited, you have no proof of why it's there."
trainer, sighing: "Can you load their opening entries again without touching what they've done since then?"
me: "Yes, but this is the third time. Next time they ask, I'm going onsite do it personally with a baseball bat."
Sorry for the rambling. The mention of double-entry accounting brought back some fond-but-excruciating memories. Um, it's General Chat? Yes, I shall claim that as my perfectly logical reason for rambling.
*wanders off for a stiff drink*
Soooo to pass accounting and econ (I hate both with a passion) I can talk to you then :P
Econ... yea... you don't know how many times I've tried to explain to some stupid kid in my guild that, just because you mined all that ore for free, you're losing money crafting it up into armor to sell. I mean, simple economics, if the mats can be sold for 60g, and the gloves go for 55g, you are losing money crafting.
linux holdovers. I hate Pidgin, and I've not found an acceptable replacement for Foob (yes yes I know, wine, whatever)... It doesn't help that I'm in the Trill Astra alpha either :)
Quod Libet, replaced foobar for me. Mostly because of it's tag based search.
Nobody here likes (X)Emacs? I never really got into vi, I'm more comfortable with having the mouse option too, whether I use it or not.
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Also, I know some of you play WoW from Linux, anyone wanna post how they did it through Wine? I never tried WoW under linux, I did try Photoshop, but failed.
Well, it's pretty much "wine WoW.exe", add "-opengl" if you prefer OpenGL over D3D (most people do). Provided you have the graphics and sound configured correctly, it should work. There are performance tweaks to be made, but that's essentially all I remember as "needed".
Quod Libet, replaced foobar for me. Mostly because of it's tag based search.
While I do have nice clean OCD-edited tags on all my files, search doesn't really matter much to me. What I want is something that's nice and small, basic UI I could tweak to show coverart (all albums have art too :P ), and, this is the key thing, "Random by album" playback. Foobar and iPod/iTunes are the only things I've ever found with random by album.
*edit*
# Real shuffle mode, that plays the whole playlist before repeating
# Weighted (by rating) random playback
At work I use either that or VisualStudio, xml spy, Notepad ++, or Dreamweaver CS3 depending if I want to look like I"m actually doing "work" or not lol.
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Give yourself some time, you tried linux too, Vi takes a while to learn, but once you know it, yes it is easy.
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Also, I know some of you play WoW from Linux, anyone wanna post how they did it through Wine? I never tried WoW under linux, I did try Photoshop, but failed.
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Curse PremiumYeah, I know how to do that. Thing is, I seldom do that kind of editting, since I don't code from scratch. I'm way more likely to shift-pageup, shift-pagedown, etc to select blocks.
Understand that I'm not saying there's not an advantage. I'm saying that I am lazy and don't do enough editting to make it worth remembering all the keycodes. :)
And as for OS's... main comp's Vista, work server is Ubuntu. Do all my dev on the Vista box, via samba, X and Synergy (tho I rarely ever actually use the desktop on the ubu box)
Nice, how's Vista faring?
Mac OS X :P
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Curse PremiumEh, forgot to mention this. My laptop is running Xubuntu happily. My desktop dual-boots Xubuntu and XP. XP is for gaming and the occasional photoshop visit. (Sometimes I just can't do what I wanna do with Gimp, probably because I am so used to photoshop.)
Hahaha.. Photoshop is my main stay in XP reason (other then steam games :P Never did get WIne running, never tried a lot either).
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Curse PremiumFine. Only issue I have had is bluetooth drivers (Vista's stack is gimped and doesn't handle audio). Gave up on that and got a USB-wired headset. Took maybe 30min to find the Vista hotfix to get it working.
WoW is my primary reason. I know it can run on linux... but... ugh... effort.... everything takes a week of tweaking to get working on linux...
TortSVN was another big holdover for me, but I've taken a great liking to git and git-gui... couple that with git-svn and, well, I have no reason to stick with pure SVN anymore.
Trillian and Foobar2000 and my last linux holdovers. I hate Pidgin, and I've not found an acceptable replacement for Foob (yes yes I know, wine, whatever)... It doesn't help that I'm in the Trill Astra alpha either :)
Oh and I use Quickbooks for my accounting and billing for work, but that's a minor issue. I could run that on my server via remote desktop if I really wanted to. Hell I'd take a nice clean replacement for it on Linux too. Just need basic invoicing to send to my boss to get mah moniez.
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Curse PremiumI'm dealing with Pidgin and really missing Miranda. It's my fave IM proggie hands-down, and while the base program would run fine in Wine, the plugins and stuff start griping.
From what I've read, there is no perfect replacement for Quickbooks in the linux world. I did a looksee once for a friend of mine who runs a sideline consulting gig. There's also a Quickbooks Online edition, though I don't know much of anything about it. Maybe GnuCash or Quasar? I only use a Quicken replacement, so I can't help ya with invoicing.
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Curse PremiumWhy the heck do I like finding software so much? Even if it's not something I'm personally using, I just love going on software hunts.
Man...double-entry accounting...most people really don't get that. I figured this out when I was doing conversions into proprietary financial software. (It was for school districts, and they have this whole slew of weird rules they have to follow.) I knew how it worked, but I don't think I really 'got it' until I had to make their accounts balance...assuming they really balanced, of course. Our trainers actually used this as an attempt to teach some folks to keep books properly. "No, our conversion programmer can't just put that number there. If you get audited, you have no proof of why it's there."
trainer, sighing: "Can you load their opening entries again without touching what they've done since then?"
me: "Yes, but this is the third time. Next time they ask, I'm going onsite do it personally with a baseball bat."
Sorry for the rambling. The mention of double-entry accounting brought back some fond-but-excruciating memories. Um, it's General Chat? Yes, I shall claim that as my perfectly logical reason for rambling.
*wanders off for a stiff drink*
Soooo to pass accounting and econ (I hate both with a passion) I can talk to you then :P
Econ... yea... you don't know how many times I've tried to explain to some stupid kid in my guild that, just because you mined all that ore for free, you're losing money crafting it up into armor to sell. I mean, simple economics, if the mats can be sold for 60g, and the gloves go for 55g, you are losing money crafting.
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Curse PremiumQuod Libet, replaced foobar for me. Mostly because of it's tag based search.
Nobody here likes (X)Emacs? I never really got into vi, I'm more comfortable with having the mouse option too, whether I use it or not.
Well, it's pretty much "wine WoW.exe", add "-opengl" if you prefer OpenGL over D3D (most people do). Provided you have the graphics and sound configured correctly, it should work. There are performance tweaks to be made, but that's essentially all I remember as "needed".
While I do have nice clean OCD-edited tags on all my files, search doesn't really matter much to me. What I want is something that's nice and small, basic UI I could tweak to show coverart (all albums have art too :P ), and, this is the key thing, "Random by album" playback. Foobar and iPod/iTunes are the only things I've ever found with random by album.
*edit*
Premising, but does it do random by album?
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Curse Premiumguessing that's what you are after.
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Curse PremiumBlah, it said it on the main page, so I thought it did it. Sorry. :(
Teehee, NOPE!
At work I use either that or VisualStudio, xml spy, Notepad ++, or Dreamweaver CS3 depending if I want to look like I"m actually doing "work" or not lol.