Comments for Linux is my life http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife I like to get Linux to work, and sometimes I succeed. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:42:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Linux Mint 12 screenshots by ROP http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/linux-mint-12-screenshots/#comment-13571 ROP Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:42:56 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?page_id=260#comment-13571 Amazing.

]]> Comment on Emacs, Org Mode, and a database like no other by York http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2012/03/emacs-org-mode-database/#comment-5095 York Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:06:15 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=379#comment-5095 Thank you very much for this article. I’m an Emacs user and org-mode is part of my everyday life. I was thinking about whether to use this approach before reading your article, and by the way there is a “invoice.el” in the “org-mode/contrib/” which is pretty much the same idea as yours. However, after reading this article, I tend to give up this idea as IMO searching over 2,500 records takes 14 seconds is a bit too slow and unacceptable.

]]> Comment on Mageia: the return of the Girl Next Door by Jonny B. http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2011/07/mageia-the-return-of-the-girl-next-door/#comment-4938 Jonny B. Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:12:22 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=116#comment-4938 I know this is a bit of an old review now, but total deja vu for me lately:

I started with Mandriva KDE, but when Mandy disintegrated I tried Kubuntu and then Chakra (I suppose I would be a KDE fanboi to be honest, but I keep it to myself.)

Chakra was great for me, and everything I thought a distro would be if I made it myself! But then, lo and behold:

pacman -Syu

And the video driver was “updated” to something that wouldn’t work! Luckily the screen didn’t blank, but anytime certain things happened, the video driver would konk out and kick me back to the login screen, losing whatever hadn’t been saved.

And then I tried Mageia (v2) and haven’t been so satisfied in a long time!

Total deja vu…

My sole hope for Mageia is that they put some effort into keeping Calligra up to date actually. I vastly prefer its UI, document mixability, and its focus on frames and styles to the dated MSO knockoffs of LO and OOo. If I send a document to an MSO user in ODF and they can’t open it, I figure they can call MS’ helpdesk. If I’m feeling kind I tell them to install LO themselves.

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]]> Comment on Foresight Linux, Xfce, and me by Foresight Linux Newsletter – Issue 03 2011 | Foresight Linux http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2011/05/foresight-linux-xfce-and-me/#comment-3825 Foresight Linux Newsletter – Issue 03 2011 | Foresight Linux Tue, 15 May 2012 21:03:52 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=5#comment-3825 [...] http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2011/05/foresight-linux-xfce-and-me/ + Rollback fun [...]

]]> Comment on Emacs, Org Mode, and a database like no other by Eddie http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2012/03/emacs-org-mode-database/#comment-3454 Eddie Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:10:08 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=379#comment-3454 Steve, you just hit upon one of the hazards of Linux. Under one of those proprietary operating systems using the preferred office software for today’s modern enterprises, you could always claim that the bit bucket ate your Honeydew. And you’d probably be right :) .

Justin, I was sort of perplexed by your invitation to “check out evil”, until I discovered that you meant the extensible vi layer for Emacs. What a relief; my heart can remain pure! :) I’m curious if adding a layer like that causes a performance hit at all?

]]> Comment on Mageia: the return of the Girl Next Door by S:R http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2011/07/mageia-the-return-of-the-girl-next-door/#comment-3427 S:R Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:08:40 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=116#comment-3427 Just one thing. Please try CrunchBang! Stable, stable, wonderful and awesome. NO PROBLEMS at all !!!! S. Sweden

]]> Comment on Emacs, Org Mode, and a database like no other by Justin Gordon http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2012/03/emacs-org-mode-database/#comment-3425 Justin Gordon Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:39:56 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=379#comment-3425 I use org-mode with vim keybindings, and it ROCKS. Check out evil, and emacs 24 is amazing.

]]> Comment on Emacs, Org Mode, and a database like no other by steve http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/2012/03/emacs-org-mode-database/#comment-3298 steve Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:44:28 +0000 http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxismylife/?p=379#comment-3298 I too have a honey-do list, but my fear of storing it in a database, as opposed to my head, is that it is much easier to claim I forgot than it is to claim I lost a row in my Database ;)

I am always amazed at what emacs, or vim(*sorry*), can do! It can be just a text editor or a complete IDE, or apparently a database front end!

To be honest, I am kind of in the other boat, where I have tried getting started in emacs a few times, but always fall back to the big V. However, then I see posts like this and it only makes me wish I was more comfortable with it.

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