So, I’m also using the latest Ubuntu at home. I decided to keep it for 1 reason: I’m too used to Expose from mac, and only Xgl allowed me to run compiz. I tried to run it under slackware, but it took me a while to get to nowhere. After I had the look and feel and all servers running, I started to look for programs under linux that I’m using for my daily work and here is what I got:
| Linux (Gnome/GTK) |
Linux(KDE/QT) |
Mac |
Purpose |
Note |
| Evolution |
Kmail |
Mail.app |
Mail client |
I like it a lot that Mail.app combines (on the screen) all my mailboxes and I don’t have to go through all of them when I check my email. The other two programs create separate mailboxes and I have to click on one at a time. |
| Firefox |
Firefox |
Safari |
Web Browser |
I definitely like Firefo as a browser more, but I miss the way Safari handles RSS feeds |
| Rhythmbox |
Amarok |
iTunes |
Music |
here the situation is a little tricky, but so far I think I like Rhythmbox the best. |
| Totem-xine |
Kaffeine |
VLC |
Movies |
I like VLC the best of all, but it has a problem with the Passthrough spdif option, that’s why I don’t use it under Linux. Sometimes I change VLC with mplayer. |
| TexLive |
TexLive |
TexLive |
TeX backend |
no comment |
| Texmaker |
|
TexShop |
TeX frontend |
TexShop the best. This is one of the best programs I’ve used! |
| Quanta Plus |
Quanta Plus |
Dreamweaver CS3 |
Web Development |
Here Dreamweaver is a definite leader and in both cases I’m not even considering the visual editors. |
| Photoshop CS2 |
Photoshop CS2 |
Photoshop CS3 |
Графична обработка |
Photoshop is Photoshop. |
| pidgin |
kopete |
Adium |
IM client |
Like TexShop, Adium is one of the great programs for Mac. I love it |
| Azureus 2.5 |
Azureus 2.5 |
Azureus 2.5 |
Torrent client |
I think it works best |
| gnome-terminal |
konsole |
iTerm |
terminal |
I used to use aterm a lot, but now I don’t mind much which terminal I use. |
| Firefox |
RSS Reader |
Safari |
RSS reader |
see the browsers |
| OOo |
OOo |
TextEdit |
Text editing |
Since quite some time, if I don’t need some special formatting, I use the simplest features and I don’t care where I write. Otherwise, for larger papers I use LaTeX |
Last Sunday I didn’t work. Vassil stopped by on Saturday and because the weather on Sunday was nice we decided to go for a ride on the bikes to the close park. So, as we were getting close to the park there is a bridge with a slight downhill slope. We started accelerating a little bit and just when I was about to pass the bridge, a kid jumped in front of me. I squeezed both brakes and the rear of my bike lifted from the ground causing me to take off from the bike. Fortunately, the kid moved away on time and I managed to land on my hands. The consequences were 2-3 places on my hand with a missing skin on the knuckles of the fingers. I didn’t think it’s a big deal then, but it turned out that when you type, you bend your fingers a lot. The bike also survived.
I’m glad I had my first aid kit with me so I cleaned the wounds very fast but opted for not putting any bandages to make the healing process faster.
That happened 4 days ago and all that’s left from the wounds are the scars. The healed pretty fast.
After the last update of OS X86 something went bad and I decided to put back Linux. All services were down for about half a day, but now everything should be fine.
I opened the DVD with all the pictures from our last trip to Bulgaria and I picked a few from the groups for my gallery:
Please, if you are a protector of animals and animal rights do not look at the album Haskovo.
I couldn’t take my road test :). There are two possibilities : either I cannot drive ( I have a BG license for almost 6 years without a single violation ) or the guy that was testing me was having huge problems with the world. To get a license in New York you need less than 30 pts, I had 75! The worst thing is I have to wait 1 month for the next available date. At least it’s free…
I guess I’ll be driving with my license and that’s it.
I’m alive :). I haven’t written for a while because of a few reasons. First, after we came back from Bulgaria, I had to finish 2-3 things for school, then I had other 1-2 things for school, and in the end I started spell-checking my blog(the Bulgarian version). I apologise to everyone for not using a spell checker and for making you read misspelled words. I’ll do my best to avoid that in future posts.
Spell check of a 1-2 year old blog is not the easiest thing to do. That’s why I had to come up with something more creative. I extracted all Bulgarian words from the DB, passed them through Aspell and sorted them by frequency of occurrence in my blog.
With every misspelled word I searched for posts in the DB and spell-checked them. I stopped when I reached words with occurrence of 1. They were mostly Burglarised English words that are not in the dictionary. I hope I made the contents of this blog at least a little bit better.
A few days ago I saw in Yovko’s blog, that he plans to go through every single post in his blog and edit it. I liked the idea a lot and it fits perfectly with my current mode of making my blog better. To start I installed the on this day plugin. We’ll see how well that goes.
Other enhancements in my blog are, GosPress with the hope of support for Bulgarian and wp default post content - because I don’t want to write the tags for the English and Bulgarian part of my posts any more.
All I have to do now is go through the pictures from this summer, put them in my gallery and I’ll be up to date.
