I have just opened my blog, and I am very excited about this. So here comes the second post.
Last week, my brother brought me a laptop from Canada: Asus U36JC. The laptop is awesome: intel i5 processor, one usb3.0 port, total weight is 1.6kg, long battery life -- I am very happy. After using my EeePC for last 2 years, the 13.3'' screen looks like a 50'' plasma in a hall.
But the laptop comes with Windows 7. Last time I used MS Windows in my daily life, was more than 3 years ago. It was Windows XP, and it was disgusting. In that time a migration from Windows XP to Linux (Ubuntu/Debian) was very popular (it is right at least for the forums I used to visit). So I decided to be ะช as well and to migrate to Linux.
During the short period of using Linux I got used to all this Unix-utilities and I can't imagine now a life without shell, grep and gvim. Fortunately, I am not alone, and some people who faced this problem solved it: Cygwin is an open-source project that provides an easy way to port *nix-utilities to Windows platform. If you are interested, visit the site, the installation is pretty easy and straightforward.
One of the coolest features of Cygwin is Cygwin/X. That is, it's an open-source X Server port for Windows. The problem is when I want to run some X app I need, first, to make sure the X Server is already running. That's very annoying. So I googled, and one of the first results I got was this one. It's short description is:
use Cygwin's run command, whose only purpose is to run other programs in background; add "<path-to-cygwin>\bin\run.exe -p /usr/X11R6/bin XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -silent-dup-error" to your Startup group and enjoy!
That's exactly what I wanted. But now I want more: on EeePC I was using wmii window manager. It's a nice lightweight tiled WM, excluding its developer team philosophy break-config-compatibility-on-each-release. And I got used to its shortcuts, one of which is Alt+<Enter> to open the xterm (urxvt in my case). So the next goal is to find out an easy way to make it.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Hello, world!
This is my first post. I doubt someone will ever read it. Still I have to say some opening words.
A few months ago I started to think about managing my own blog. The reasons for this are:
1. I am very lazy. When I come home after a hard-work day, usually I just do nothing: watch some stupid clips on Youtube, read some shitty comments for recent news, and the shitty news either. So this could be a good reason to change my life style, it is a little effort to write a word or two in a week regarding something that interests you.
2. I need to practice to express myself --- to visualize my thoughts. I think a lot of time, just as all people do, but I have discovered that it is very difficult to me sometimes to explain myself, even in my native language.
3. I need to practice my English. The more I write, the more I learn from my spell checker.
4. And, finally, I think it could be nice to write down my thoughts, so later I could read it, and to make some conclusions: where I was wrong, did I achieve my goals and etc.
4.5. Additionally, I think I will store here many technical notes. As a CS student, as a SW developer, and as a end-user I have many technical notes stored on my laptop, home PC, work PC, mail and etc. It seems to be a much easier to manage it centralized.
So, these are my initial goals. I plan to post at least weekly, but... who knows))
Nevertheless, I finally did it - Hello, WWWorld!
A few months ago I started to think about managing my own blog. The reasons for this are:
1. I am very lazy. When I come home after a hard-work day, usually I just do nothing: watch some stupid clips on Youtube, read some shitty comments for recent news, and the shitty news either. So this could be a good reason to change my life style, it is a little effort to write a word or two in a week regarding something that interests you.
2. I need to practice to express myself --- to visualize my thoughts. I think a lot of time, just as all people do, but I have discovered that it is very difficult to me sometimes to explain myself, even in my native language.
3. I need to practice my English. The more I write, the more I learn from my spell checker.
4. And, finally, I think it could be nice to write down my thoughts, so later I could read it, and to make some conclusions: where I was wrong, did I achieve my goals and etc.
4.5. Additionally, I think I will store here many technical notes. As a CS student, as a SW developer, and as a end-user I have many technical notes stored on my laptop, home PC, work PC, mail and etc. It seems to be a much easier to manage it centralized.
So, these are my initial goals. I plan to post at least weekly, but... who knows))
Nevertheless, I finally did it - Hello, WWWorld!
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