November 2nd, 2005 SkyHorse
I have been a fan of EditPlus for some years now, and I have (*shamefully*) tried some other editors from time to time, including jEdit, but I never really found anything even close to the ease of use and speed of EditPlus. That is, until now.
jEdit, the free software written in Java, is in its latest incarnation a fast and highly costumizable all-round editor with a very good learning curve.
jEdit Programmers Text Editor
The best part about jEdit is the ability to use your own syntax definition files, which are simply XML files. I am currently using this for work, but I would probably would have used it instead of EditPlus when I was working with the Nemesys assembly (see nemesys assembly language syntax file for EditPlus in the downloads area). The only good thing about EditPlus was the very very fast boot up speed. It was only a tiny bit slower than notepad!
Another great highlight is the ability to perform search and replace using normal (aka GNU’s) regular expressions. Now, this is a *serious* tool! You can even use that to check for your regex syntax matches in the file you have open. This has saved me countless hours of frustrating copy-paste-delete repetitions on huge files.
A lot can also be added with many plugins, my favourite being the FTP (which allows you to deal with ftp sites as if they were local drives), the tabbed editing (easy access to multiple open files) and the extended regex, which gives empowers your regex ability.
Check it out for yourself!
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October 8th, 2005 SkyHorse
Ubuntu wins Best Distribution Award at the UK Linux & Open Source Awards on the 5th of October, along with a life-time award for Alan Cox, who was desperately needing one.
What do Africa, the ISS and VeriSign have in common?
The man behind Ubuntu, who by the way is trying very hard not to get filthy rich(er) from the whole thing, is Mark Shuttleworth. The same Mark who founded Thawte Consulting (only to sell it to VeriSign for $575 million USD). The same Mark who went to the International Space Station for a short 8 days holiday trip. And yes, he also started Ubuntu two years ago.
For those of you out there who still think “free software” is the same as “free beer”, remember Ubuntu is only alive after SABDFL donated $10 Million USD to the Ubuntu Foundation. (SABDFL is short for self-appointed benevolent dictator for life, apparently what developers call its founder, Mark, in a sweet kind of way. Hey, for $10mil, who wouldn’t?)
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October 7th, 2005 SkyHorse
The only Linux distribution certified for Intel Centrino has just been released for “Club members” only.
Can this beat Ubuntu ? I guess the “rest” of us will have to wait till the 13th of October to find out if the Interactive Firewall or the Quick boot time is just hype.
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October 6th, 2005 SkyHorse
cNet Asia is reporting on a new HTC PDA (HTC is the OEM manufacturer of famous PDAs sold under different names, such as XDA, MDA or Qtek. See XDA Developers for more info)
The smal form-factor of the current XDA Mini fails to achieve the same level of mobile connectivity as its big counterparts like the XDA IIi (which I currently have) or the XDA IIs (with a nifty qwerty sliding keyboard) due to the lack of WiFi network adapter.
This is where the new XDA Atom comes in: even smaller than the mini (The Atom measures 102 x 58 x 18.5 mm compared with the mini’s 108 x 58 x 18.1 mm) this baby has integrated WiFi, 262k-clolor QVGA screen (a lot better than most current PDA’s) and the coveted Windows Mobile 5.0 OS.
It also has O2 MediaPlus (I hope it’s easy to remove).
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September 25th, 2005 SkyHorse
Well, pigs do fly.
What does a Microsoft employee have to do to get MSN Messenger working on their Linux desktops? Fix the bugs in GAIM Messenger of course! Thats what Bill Hilf, Microsoft’s Linux Lab Manager, did when he and his team had a ‘real’ need for MSN via HTTP under Linux. And, because they at Microsoft are so cool, even submitted the patch upstream.
Whats next? Microsoft at the LinuxWorld expo? Done already.
Could this mean we will soon see a “Microsoft Linux” in a laptop near you?
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