Hoover Factory
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hirezRecommend:
1. A light engineering supplier:
2. A coastal area with broadband access and a variety of civic amenities:
3. A (free) Java development environment:
4. A stout pair of trousers for the ex-goth-about-town:
5. An O'Reilly:
6. Anyone else who might want their bio rewritten:
Write your recommendations on the back of an envelope, then set fire to yourself and leap out of the nearest window.
1. A light engineering supplier:
2. A coastal area with broadband access and a variety of civic amenities:
3. A (free) Java development environment:
4. A stout pair of trousers for the ex-goth-about-town:
5. An O'Reilly:
6. Anyone else who might want their bio rewritten:
Write your recommendations on the back of an envelope, then set fire to yourself and leap out of the nearest window.
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Date: 2004-02-13 07:29 am (UTC)For the record, I like Textpad.
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:00 am (UTC)I've just given up trying to get gvim to remember to remember I want both syntax highlighting AND a white background.
I wonder how slowly Eclipse will run on a C240...
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:03 am (UTC)*runs*
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:10 am (UTC)I can run winders if I want - rdesktop into the treminal-swerver if I need to do something M$-only.
But since I have a cubeful of Gentleman's Unix(tm) machines, it seemed a shame not to shovel lots of memory into one of the HP ones to see if it would work as well as one of the BSD boxes. I shouldn't have been surprised that it does. (Modulo the SysVness)
I think having worked on lots of kit that wasn't CFI-Weenix helps.
Ramble ramble ramble. I should go home. I have a parcel from foreign parts. Or maybe OF foreign parts. How exciting!
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-13 10:54 am (UTC)I got into Unix through being an admin, so I learned vi.
The last time I had to build xemacs, it took the thick end of a day to build enough of the thing such that it could go out onto the net and hoover down the rest of itself.
I'm well in favour of IDEs in general - the last time I performed production coding, it was with Borland's C/C++ environment (a long time ago) and the thing caused code to fall off the end of my fingers at a splendid rate.
However, these days most of my hackery seems to involve little more than './configure --prefix=/opt && make && make check && make install', so I've become incredibly rusty. I think it would take about three months of doing bog-all but hack away at C[++] or Java before I could emit code worthy of the name.
A shame, but there we are.
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Date: 2004-02-13 06:46 am (UTC)2. Sealand.
3. Columbia? (and aren't old jokes the best?)
4. I'd highly reccomend dungarees, however you'd be fast in danger of becoming one with the In crowd... which is most disturbing.
5. My current favourites are the Panther pocketbook, MacOS X hacks, and the iPod missing manual... all of which are soundly entertaining but relatively pointless to you.
6. Oooh, Pick me! pick me!
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Date: 2004-02-13 07:11 am (UTC)5) Lego mindstorms (actually, not as good as it might be but still damn good fun) - can't remember the name of the O'Reilly. The animal is a clockwork rabbit.
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:03 am (UTC)Have TINI boards. Will ignore them too.
Oh, and: Latest bloody Nokia S40 kit has mobile-meeja API what (should) allow access to camerul from Jarval. Will there be a firmware upgrade? I suspect not. Arseo!
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Date: 2004-02-13 08:14 am (UTC)Oh, and potto (without Prestons of...), bass and iguana.
And opossum. Bloody hell, they're multiplying.
So, what's the panther on, then?
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Date: 2004-02-13 10:20 am (UTC)Sorry, it's been a long day.
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Date: 2004-02-14 08:58 am (UTC)(4) Wandering about San Jose yesterday AM, I happen on The Workingman's Emporium (I didn't make that up) and was forced to buy a pair of the stoutest trousers I've ever seen. Carhartt, from the rack next to the Arctic-grade boiler suits. Yes, they do come in black.
(1) www.airco-metals.com
(2) The Bay area would qualify.
(5) Tim.