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| 1999/6/21-22 [Computer/SW/Editors/Emacs, Computer/SW/Editors/Vi] UID:15995 Activity:very high |
6/21 What is the best text editor for Windows? I need it to be small, fast,
unlimited file size, syntax highlighting, and not Emacs.
copy con file
\_ WinEdit. Can search text in a file using Perl regex. Beat that!
\_ Lemmy... vi for windows and does syntax highlighting and a bunch
of other cool things...
\_ without a doubt: gvim/vim 5.3 -- full executable is 500K.
Download at http://www.vim.org
\_ Hm. Forgot to say "not Vi either." No way am I wasting the
braincells to memorize 2 billion unintuitive commands and
enter a special mode when I want to type them. Actually
forget about "small" too. This is America. I found
UltraEdit32, seems good 'nuff, and has a hex editor. I
would use Emacs but I find its Windoze integration
lacking.
\_ Ah, using gvim you don't have to use the VI commands if
you don't want to (thought they're worth learning--I
used emacs until I switched and found the vi commands
easy to learn). Use mouse-highlight, cursor keys, etc.
Easy to make macros, too.
\_ Much smaller Norton Editor (old old runs in dos but works) but it
doesn't do syntax highlighting. It matches parens and braces but
that's it. Full executable is about 30k.
\_ Whatever happened to QEdit? -tom
\_ Never used it.
\_ still use it as DOS editor of choice for batch files
QEdit became commercial TSE (The SemWare Editor?)
I still have QEdit Advanced v3.00, one of the last
versions that was still shareware
\_ well, you could use jove. Dunno about unlimited file size.
and no syntax sytuff. or jed, I suppose.
ftp://space.mit.edu/davis
\_ Write your own in MSJava! |
| 1999/6/21 [Uncategorized] UID:15996 Activity:nil |
6/21 Am I strange if I buy figure skating for dummies just for the pictures ?
or does that mean I am just a fetishist ? |
| 1999/6/21-22 [Uncategorized] UID:15997 Activity:moderate |
6/21 DOWN WITH ANTI-EVOLUTIONISTS!!!!
\_ anti what-what?
\_ people who refuse to evolve
\_ people who refuse to stop casting porosity |
| 1999/6/21-23 [Industry/Jobs] UID:15998 Activity:moderate 55%like:15986 |
6/21 Unix sysadmin position available at http://Yodlee.Com in Sunnyvale. See /csua/pub/jobs/Yodlee for details. -cdaveb (reposted) \_ There's only one thing you have to know about being a sysadmin: echo 'root: "/dev/null"' >! /etc/aliases; sendmail -bi \_ are there any senior-level development position open? \_ I don't know but I'll check. \_ We do but nobody's been able to survive the interview. E-mail resume to mch@interwoven.com if you're any good. \_who cares?you're just another "me too" company.-ex-candidate \_ Is the senior interview one of those "I have a list of 25 obscure technical questions that a real person would never memorise because they have man pages, but since I can't interview for real, I'm using obscurity as a mis-measure of competence"? If so, then "ex-candidate" shouldn't be too bitter about it. A company that doesn't know how to interview is going to fill slots with morons you don't want to work with. Be glad you got turned down if this is the case. \_ case in point: cdaveb. Of course, if "ex-candidate" was truly unqualified, then hey, you just suck. hah! \_ hee hee, I still remember "What is a 404?" at http://findlaw.com. (not obscure technical but funny) It still makes me think I'll get to an interview with "Are you 1337?" \_ You told them, "that's what you'd have to pay me per hour to work here!", right? \_ Dude, if I'm in an interview and they try to pull that "are you elite??!?" shit on me, I just pull out the VIC-20 I brought along with me, splice an RS-232-to-120-volt-electrical-plug cable right before their eyes, and proceed to hack into their "elite" firewall on the spot, using their building's electrical system for a network. Then I spit on them as I walk out the door on my way out. \_ !Yodlee go Taos! |
| 1999/6/21-23 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/Rants] UID:15999 Activity:moderate |
6/21 Opinions on "Pirates of Silicon Valley"? I thought it was good, but
too short. We didn't see the official introduction of the Mac and
the subsequent decline of Apple. Plus it focuses too much on Jobs and
the baby girl he tried to disown. The image of bill gates doing
a Travolta "saturday night fever" was great though. :-)
\_ Plot line: Jobs is a bastard. Gates is a bigger bastard. Gates
won. Pity neither bastard, they're both scum.
\_ That wasn't really Steve. -someone who works for Steve.
\_ The casting was great for most of the characters, but the
story was poorly handled, poorly presented, and was missing too
much detail to appeal to anyone who knew the story and wasn't
coherent enough for people who didn't know it. But I didn't
expect anything else. They could have phrased Microsoft's Apple
stock purchase a little less misleadingly too. -cdaveb
\_ Darn! I missed it. Will there be a re-run it on TNT?
\_ tonight 11pm and weds. 8pm.
\_ Anyone offering a place to watch it? -jnat
\_ 306 soda. this weekend. If interested
email prole@soda |
| 1999/6/21-22 [Academia/GradSchool, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:16000 Activity:very high |
6/21 Divx, Beta (tape), OS/2, etc are all failures form the beginning.
What are other examples of failed formats?
\_ motd postings like this which are obvious troll attempts.
\_ DOS, Windows
\_ No, I think we all *wish* it failed.
\_ NNNNNN!!!! DOS was a fantastic success. So was windows.
\_ Minidisc, DCC cassettes, VCDs, CDi, Cable Modems, Vanilla Ice,
(Lynx/GameGear/TurboExpress), Sega 32x, Alcohol-free college
campuses, XL Spandex, men's hairpieces.
\_ American Cars
\_ Keep telling yourself that the next time a Corvette
passes your loud exhausted Honda wanna be ass. -ax
\_ and promptly runs outta gas.
\_ Anyone who can afford a corvette can afford a tank
of gas. don't be bitter Mr. Econbox-Driver.
\_ I've driven a Corvette. You hit the accelerator,
and the gas gauge dips. You gotta admit, a
CRX gets a lot more miles in 10 gallons than
a Corvette in 16, unless the driver thinks it's
a Porsche (why *do* CRX drivers do that?)
killed for non-technology related reasons.
\_ Beta is very much alive, albeit not in the consumer market.
The television / media industry still extensively uses it.
And last I checked, OS/2 is still breathing, if not 2 heartbeats
a minute.
\_ isn't there a difference between Betmax and Betacam?
Besides, ED-Beta is to Betamax like SVHS is to VHS.
\_ Long's Drugs in Alameda still sells blank Beta tapes. -- yuen
\_ OS2 is also alive, but not in the consumer market. You're confused.
It was certainly not a failure at the beginning and isn't a failure
today. It's still a better OS than anything MS made. It was
killed for non-technology related reasons.
\_ That is correct, OS/2 is a huge seller in the embedded market.
Most of the time when you go to an ATM machine or use voice
mail at work, you are using OS/2... -SMurF
\_IBM doesn't even use OS/2, at least at Almaden.
for thinking it.
I think this is the definition of dead, at least
in this case.
\_ No it doesn't define anything. IBM isn't
the same kind of business that's using OS2.
Certainly a single site's lack of use means
nothing. It's a *HUGE* company.
\_ I worked at Almaden in 1991 and I was using OS/2
2.0. Can't believe it's been dropped. BTW
MS-owned hotmail doesn't use MS web server
either. Is MS web server dead? -- yuen
\_ Sorry to burst your bubble, but OS/2 1.0 was made
jointly by IBM & MS, before MS pulled out to work
on NT instead.
\_ You're not bursting anything. Why do you think
you're clever posting known and ancient info
that isn't relevent? Why the need to feel smart?
\_ It was claimed it was better than anything
MS made, but it was made by MS, therefore
you are claiming it is better than itself?
\_ Uh oh, wannabe deep thinking philosopher
on the prowl! Look out! MS didn't make
it. An IBM/MS product is not a MS
product. OS2 v1.0 is not the version in
use today. v2.x is which had even less
to do with MS, namely nothing of note.
MS has yet to develop anything original
in their corporate history. The idea
that MS has *made* anything is a
laughable lie. Be ashamed of yourself
for thinking it. How much M$ do you
own? It's clouding your judgement.
\_ You probably think Shakespeare never
*made* anything either, huh?
\_ Hahahhahah You think BG is
Shakespeare? My God! You *are*
incredibly stupid!
\_ "Bob" was original. Damn stupid,
but still original.
\_ Ok, you got me. MS made Bob. I
retract previous statements about
total lack of MS creativity. MS
made Bob. Can't argue with that.
\_ how does "Bob" run on today's
faster/bigger hardware? (it
was _Mrs_ Gates' project, btw)
\_ Ford Edsel. (Okay - it's not a "format", but then neither is OS/2) |