Archive for March, 2006

Pluses: A preference for vi over emacs.

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Just found this on a jobs site at Last.fm. Indeed it is a plus! *ducks and runs*

Pluses:

- A preference for vi over emacs.

See http://www.last.fm/help/jobs.php

Quod libet issues

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Since some people seemed a bit interested in my opinions on the various music players and music managers I’ll go through a few of them - beginning with quod libet.
The initial interface looks like this:

In my opinion its interface is less than elegant. It devotes almost the entire interface to the list of tracks available [...]

Where is my music player?

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

I’m currently using amaroK. Now that’s a great player, and software HAS to be great for me to use a KDE program. Now, I have a music player, sure. The problem I have with amaroK is that it’s a KDE app. It brings along kded and dcop. That’s the bad part, kded crashes, dcop brings [...]

Getting rid of Mozilla

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

I’m tired of mozilla stuff (wow, you didn’t know that now did you). So I’ve tried the last month to get rid of Thunderbird the last few months, I tried Evolution, but evolution was way too bloated for me, and now I tried Sylpheed Claws.
It turns out, I like Sylpheed claws (all parts except the [...]

GNOME my web (the second attempt - Epiphany 1.9.8)

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Last attempt didn’t go as well as I’d want. This time however, I’ve switched, and I’ve used epiphany for around 1-2 weeks now. The addressbar issue got fixed by using an extension (uh, I’ll find the URL to it later - can’t remember atm.). The search-as-you-type is still there and It appears I’m going to [...]