Hoover Factory

[hirez]

Recommend:

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.

Comments

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[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

Good way to set fire to the entirity of your house. Then you can claim insurance - 'The scary man with the noises told me to...' ;)

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

I keep parsing that as '...with the noses...' and wandering off into Groucho Marxist territory.

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[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

Er, all the better to smell you with, my dear. Or something.

For the record, I like Textpad.

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ooer. It's all getting a bit Reeves and Mortimer. (How 90s is that?)

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...

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

It's yer own bloody fault for not using Windows.

*runs*

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

Pah! And indeed fie!

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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[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with XEmacs? Eh?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

:p

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.