I’m currently working at a client site in the windows world. I find a *nix environment gives me much greater productivity.
The basics:
- Services For Unix – or Cygwin.
- Console2 – cmd.exe must die. console2 gives me tabs, proper cut/paste, working page-up/down and mouse wheel scrolling.
- Cream – I’ve turned off half the “cream” functionality, and could probably just go with raw gvim.
Other nice bits and pieces:
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The 50m pool was closed today. I lost track of how many laps I swam this morning, but it was about the same distance as Monday. So much easier when you have proper swimmers rather than board shorts with brakes/pockets.
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Swam 10(x50m) laps of Granville pool this morning. It wasn’t much, but it’s probably around 20 years since I last tried swimming laps, so I’m pretty pleased that I actually got out and did it.
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Just read an article in the SMH, Comatose woman gives birth. It seemed a bit morbid, but had a positive outcome – a healthy child. Until I got to the last paragraph:
The child is now in a home after his father decided he was unable to care for him as he had to travel often for his job.
What! I find that incredibly disturbing.
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Perhaps the most sensible comment on this latest NRL sex scandal’s I’ve seen. Not to deny the horror of these events, but I’m glad that Ms Willis sees signs of some positive changes.
Ethical men must fight for change
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Treatment of animals: litmus test for a nation
… During the past few years the longstanding campaign by animal advocates to establish rights and protections for animals has been gaining ground …
Good to see that animal rights is getting some coverage in the mainstream media.
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