Comments | lo5an: you can keep your iPhone

lo5an

you can keep your iPhone

Jul 03, 2007 19:47

I, personally, want an OpenMoko phone. What do you want to be it already runs But emacs? (speaking of which, I found a utility that gives you emacs keybindings in pretty much every Windows application... But then, I'm weird. I just picked a web based address book tool because of the export tools it provides... "Sure, features are nice... but what's ( Read more... )

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reify July 4 2007, 05:09:28 UTC

I just got done with setting up my new XP desktop at work. It's not a bad environment once you know how to run it; in many ways it works better than the Mac.

May I suggest:

- cygwin, full install
- put startxwin in your Startup folder so you always have an X server running.
- Process Explorer. It's top on steroids.
- batch wrapper script to start up an xterm session. Name it "x - xtermwhatever" and drop it in Start Menu. Keep your frequent apps in there with unique leading characters and clean out the unused items, and then you have really quick Ctrl-Esc,x access to them. It's almost like being in emacs! A properly-configured start menu still works better for me than the Mac interface.
- winmerge! I just discovered this a couple months ago and it rocks.
- Oracle XE. It's free as in beer.
- TextPad or EditPlus as the main text editor, with a unique leading T in the Start Menu

- Don't run as Admin. Use the equivalent of sudo scripts to pop up DOS prompts and Windows Explorer windows with root priveleges:

:: admin_explorer.bat ( ... )

krieg_hund July 4 2007, 07:19:26 UTC

Office 2007 has a demo version that'll run until September. Not much of an exit strategy, though.

Open office is freeware. That's a bit better exit strategy.
I don't know if you tried it and don't like it, but it works for my needs.

lo5an July 4 2007, 09:07:58 UTC

Yeah, I <3 OO.org. I used to use it for most of my MS Office related needs, back before I jumped on the Mac bandwagon.

reify July 4 2007, 14:25:37 UTC

It's been a few years since I've used it on Windows. Tried it on Mac, including the Mac-specific build, but it was just too clunky; its X Windows bits didn't fit well with OS X. And I've turned into kind of a prima donna about how smoothly my software works.

They're more focused on Windows; it's probably pretty usable over there.

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krieg_hund July 4 2007, 07:13:32 UTC

I think I've got a future as a technology curmudgeon

Welcome to the club.

lo5an July 4 2007, 09:16:35 UTC

Thanks :-)

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lo5an July 4 2007, 17:05:05 UTC

You understand correctly. Open Moko is an open source mobile phone operating system . Actually, it's even cooler than just being able to write apps, which you can, in theory, do for many existing phones. The entire software stack is open source, so you can even make changes to the operating system, if you've got the chops and the motivation ( ... )