Quotage
Eric sent me a couple of really good /. quotes that I should share:
It took me one day to get online. The detail is tedious and highly technical: reinstalling drivers and router firmware didn’t work, but after many trial and error tweaks to Vista’s TCP/IP settings, I had internet access.
I had to post that one based on my recent anti-vista diatribes.
So, what you’re saying it’s kind of like installing an oddball wi-fi card on Linux. Except without the option of reading hundreds of pages of obscure documentation until you’ve transformed yourself into a mutant linux hotplugging guru.
D10 has been having troubles installing his wifi card on SuSE, so I’m sure he can relate to that one. And finally, my favorite:
In a nutshell, the difference between getting things working in Linux and Windows seems to be this. Linux is like being parachuted into the wilderness with a hammer, forge, and load of pig iron. Windows is like being parachuted into the wilderness with an impressive looking knife that snaps in two if you don’t use it very, very carefully.
I booted up XP earlier today to do some webdev for a side project that I am involved with. After becoming accustomed to XGL/Compiz and Gnome: XP seemed lifeless. Two dimensional. Dead. Also, I have started noticing how slow XP is on certain functions; especially inside Visual Studio 2005. Granted, opening a terminal and using sed/grep to search and replace an entire group of .c files for an obscure function call is not for the weak at heart, but it is definately more satisfying for the inner hardcore geek in me. Yes fanboys, I know that visual studio has find/replace.
Visual Studio 2005 is quite possibly the best IDE that I have ever used. However, part of me has yearned toward a purest approach to coding. Turns out, if you give me EMACS with some customized LISP plugins for syntax highlighting and windows style cut/copy/paste then I am perfectly happy. VS2005 seems to be taking all the thinking out of coding; which after all, is Microsofts goal for the product anyway. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily. I don’t like setting up all the extra library includes inside VS2005. The last time I tried to us a standard distribution of openGL it took me 30 minutes to fix all the linker problems. It’s much simpler for me to simply add -l or -L and simply tell the makefile where the library lives.
I’m ranting because I’m feeling novel. It’ll probably wear off later. =)
Dave said,
March 15, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
I’ve been playing a bit with CrossOver, a GUI-based Windows Emulator. It’s no where near perfect, infact, anything made in the last 2 or so years probably won’t work, but it’s nice to be able to watch Quicktime HD movie trailers, and that streaming audio works for most sites/servers as well. Currently testing the Project 9-6-1 streamer site, which works, even in Firefox. And yes, I can even use IE 6.0 in Linux!
Using Big Bill’s stuff in his competition, ain’t it just great!