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January 11th 2007 at 8:16 am in First post from my new Mac!
Stranger things have happened: a proprietary operating system has entered my household once again. I didn’t pay for it, mind you, my boss did.
*sniff* It may be some weird fetish, but the smell of new hardware is just… well… there is just something about it..
So I’m all happy discovering new things and installing open source software such as Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice. I have to find me a decent editor as well (with code highlighting et cetera); over time I have gotten very fond of the Kate editor from the KDE.
I’m sure I’ll find something… free — as in beer… And if I don’t, well, there’s always vi…
Ah I might have to call you gay bro…
Some to look at:
http://www.mimikaki.net/en/mimi/download.html
http://jedit.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for the suggestions! I did find some other ones, but dang, everybody wants money for their software.
It takes some getting used to — going back to the world of proprietary operating systems: welcome to crippleware, shareware and over-priced software. I knew I used Linux for a good reason.
Oh by the way, I have already crashed one time: a sudden and complete hang of the OS while switching from one window to another, completely freezing everything, only hard reboot got me out.
Not really a crash, but irritating nonetheless: the infinite reading and spinning of a CD, impossible to unmount an ISO I mount from that CD. I guess when mkisofs nags something about breaking ISO9660 standards could overflowing the OS, it really isn’t joking.