Little things

First, a word of caution, beware your .asoundrc if alsa doesn't work. It should be obvious but it took me awhile to realize I had modified it and it was messing things up, so I removed it and alsa worked.

Next, a lot of people have been talking about moving over to this app or another. One example is people moving off of Firefox. Well, in the last week or two I tried Opera and Konqueror, the two leading contenders on Linux, and well both crashed on me so often I'd rather have Firefox's slowness. And believe me, next to crashing, slowness is the next worst thing in my mind. I swapped around terminals a bit too because gnome-terminal can be a bit slow too, but we'll see. I'm thinking about stripping out the "Gnome" part of gnome-terminal to see how much that would speed it up. If I did that then I'd probably move on to do the same thing to gdm. I may be wrong, but I think that would speed up both apps allot. Then again, I'd need to divest some time from doing other stuff to actually work on that (mainly watching TV, playing computer games, and working on the house).

One Gnome app I ran across recently that I really liked is gnomebaker for burning CDs. I decided to grab a GUI instead of looking up all the mkiso and cdrecord commands (yet again). Once I had myself in the cdrom group it worked great. (One thing is that it seems to puke and hang if you're not in the group, I should bug that as it should recover after telling you it bombed.)

This brings up how minimalist I am as far as the tools I use. I love clewn for debugging (clewn.sourceforge.net). It's the absolute best. A simple integration with Vi and the most stable interface to gdb I've used. I have managed to make Eclipse puke and others, but this one was allot better than pure command line debugging while giving up nothing on stability. I also use fluxbox for simmilar reasons. And yes, keyboard short cuts are your best friends.

Anyways, that's enough ranting on what's a good app.