Yay Computers!
Sometimes I don’t hate computers. Here’s a few things that made me happy recently:
Yay Wine!
One of my current classes involves some C#, and the professor is quite insistent that Visual Studio is the only tool for C# development. It’s ok though, because Wine runs Visual Studio Express 2005 like a champ. (Of course I also installed mono and gmcs and that’s what I’ve used so far since I really don’t need a fat IDE to work on a project that only has one class.) Even better, while I was bumming around the Wine site I discovered that MS Office 2007 is supported too. I haven’t got to try that yet because I don’t have the disc with me, but I’m excited to try it.
Yay Remote Desktop!
Sometimes you just need Windows (not very often anymore thank goodness), and I’ve tried both dual-booting and virtual machines to deal with it, but my new setup is a lot nicer. I put XP back on my old lap, turned on Remote Desktop, and stuffed it under my printer. With RDesktop on my Linux box, XP is just one click away. I don’t have to reboot, it’s not intolerably slow, and under the printer it doesn’t take up any desk space.
Yay Linux!
For some reason the network share for Computer Science drives hasn’t been working lately. This hasn’t bothered me because I just downloaded sshfs which lets me mount a drive over ssh. My roommate was having the same problem, and I looked to see if there was a Windows equivalent, and there is. It’s called SftpDrive and it can be yours for the low low price of $39. I think he’s going to wind up ftp’ing his files back and forth. If he was running something besides Windows, I could show him how to use rsync, but of course in that case he also wouldn’t have this problem.