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( more here http://paulstamatiou.com/stuff-i-use ) 2 pairs of rayban titanium glasses with anti-reflective coating for computer screens (or that's what they told me). worth the investment. i can't wear contacts for more than a few hours without pissing off my eyes. curious about trying "gunnar" glasses though. anyone have them? year old 17-inch MacBook Pro matte 2.8GHz C2D with 8GB DDR3 and RAID 0 X25-M SSDs http://p…
Hardware:
- Main office desktop machine: Quad-core Core 2 Duo @ 2.33 GHz (64-bit) with 8 GB of RAM, nVidia GT240, 30" HP display (DVI), dual 500 GB SATA HDs.
- Laptop: Sony/Vaio VGN-NS328J, Dual Core (2.0 GHz/64-bit) with 3 GB of RAM, some sort of mediocre ATI video.
- Netbook, on which I do a fair bit of my remote hacking: 10.1" Asus EeePC 1015PE (dual-core 1.66 GHz Intel Atom) w/2 GB RAM upgrade, 802.11x, Bluetooth. Great battery life on these things!
Software:
- OS: Debian Linux - mostly unstable/sid for workstations, testing/squeeze for servers.
- Window manager: For about a decade I used FVWM2, but recently gave up and switched to GNOME + Compiz, given the amount of GTK apps out there. Plus, taking advantage of the now-ubiquitous 3D accelerator actually gives much better windowing performance than a 2D window manager.
- Browser: Chrome.
- Mail client: Thunderbird 3.1.
- Chat & IRC client: Pidgin.
- Languages: C, Perl, PL/PgSQL (Postgres stored procedures), Kamailio configuration route script, Bash, Awk.
- Most work: PostgreSQL v9.0, Kamailio/sip-router (formerly OpenSER), Asterisk, Wireshark, tcpdump, PgAdmin3
- Ticketing system: RT
- Bug tracker: Mantis (www.mantisbt.org)
- Revision control: Git for actual software, Subversion for managing versions of customer network element configs.
-2 1/2 year old MacBook Pro 15inch. Still works ridiculously well -2 1/2 year old 1st gen iphone. I want to replace, but still works ridiculously well
Chrome, Notational Velocity, Notational Velocity (full screen mod) - separate instance for my dissertation notes
Google Docs for writing my dissertation. It's handling of footnotes FTW.
Thats abooot it. I write primarily in Notational/Quickcursor/Writeroom
I've noticed that the more time I spend focused on work the more out of date I get with the cutting edge. I'm on a 3 or 4 year old thinkpad (love the keyboard!) running gentoo linux. I use fvwm, xterm, gnu screen, chromium, firefox, ruby, rails, postgresql, mysql... Blah, blah, blah depending on the project. But, please, don't copy me unless you want to be so four years ago! : )
xterm is 'so four years ago?' I don't remember a time when xterm was 'sexy' and I've running Linux since 2000. I'd be interested in good resources on fvwm though. I know that you can do a lot to customize it, but whenever I tried looking into it, I never knew where to start. fvwm? fvwm95? fvwm-crystal? Are they forks? Add-ons on top of fvwm? Which are/aren't maintained anymore?
I have chromium occupying an entire page of my virtual desktop with no window decorations. On another I have firefox (mostly for development with firebug). On the others I have 2 xterms side by side running screen.
For every project, I create a new screen config which defaults to opening / launching whatever I need for that project. For example, a rails project might have several zsh's already cd'ed to the models, views, and controllers directories (and probably the public javascripts and stylesheets directories). I'll also have script/console and either mysql or psql running.
In fvwm, I have a menu with an entry for each project that launches xterm and starts / reconnects to the right gnu screen session.
I have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts for navigating my virtual desktops and moving xterms around, etc. I only really use the mouse when I'm working with one of the browsers. Another reason I'd probably be better off switching to a tiling manager.
The nice thing about fvwm is that you can arrive at something that's highly personalized. I'm really efficient / comfortable with fvwm now, but it took a long time to get here. I'm not sure I'd start over with it.
An older MBP which gets way too hot and has way too sharp edges to make me satisfied.
So get rid of it? They hold their value extraordinarily well.
BTW, do you guys feel like its OK to an eBay seller to omit details like this (that would probably prevent the sale/lower the value) ?
The seller probably knew about this but never mentioned it, made it seem like a perfect machine. I traded the MBP for an 20" iMac.
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Did you know that Quicksilver development has ceased? I believe the original dev now works on QuickSearchBox at Google. http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/ In any case, qsb is maintained and has many new features.
There's also Alfred: http://www.alfredapp.com/
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Very similar here, but I still use XChat. Do you use anything on irssi to give you desktop notifications? I know it's a matter of taste (some people hate interruptions) but I really need alerts when I receive IMs or a coworker brett:'s me in work IRC. (And for that matter, why not ERC?)
I don't run irssi on my desktop, so no. Alerts are provided in the form of rcirc-track-minor-mode. No, there is no sound, but it's Emacs, so just implement it. The deeper issue is, what are you doing at work that can't be done inside Emacs? You don't need sound if you are already in Emacs! (Why not ERC? Read the code. That's why.)
One more question: have you noticed bitlbee failing to proxy lines with non-ascii characters? That was by far the most annoying thing I ran into, but I was using it via Xchat --- for example, a non-technical friend copy/pasted some text with curly quotes and I get nothing but "FriendName: " (blank line). I had to return to Pidgin just because of that.