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Hey guys a question about Laptops.

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voidmain:
So it's not a solid 1" area of dead pixels then huh?  I would suggest since you are using this as a development environment I would set my editor background to black and you will never notice.  

Bazoukas:
oh no. Its not like it looks like hole. They are spread out.

  Heck I only installed KDE. Basicaly i will be runing this sucker on shell or text mode.
 from what i gather its the best way to get to know the Penguin    

 Thanks once again VoidMan  

[ August 09, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

voidmain:
Ok then, I have definitely seen 1 or 2 dead pixels, in fact my older Dell Latitude has a couple that have been there as long as I can remember, but no new ones ever popped up.

When I write code (Perl, C, PHP, etc) I like to have a graphical environment running but I have anywhere between 2 and 6 terminals open. I like a black (or dark translucent) Kterm or Eterm with all the scrollbars and menus turned off and a very thin or no border.  I usually write my code using "vim" and keep the source open in one of the shell windows.  I love vim's syntax hilighting and superior functionality (there's a learning curve involved with vim but well worth it).  I compile and run/test the code in a second terminal. And use the others for various other things like maybe a MySQL or PostgreSQL prompt if I am doing database programming etc...

Now if you are writing QT/KDE apps you might want to use Kdevelop rather than the command line method but you can certainly write your graphical apps using terminals as well. But I don't know if you are just starting or have been at it a while.  Just some ideas if you are just starting...

Oh, and another neat terminal trick in Linux if you weren't aware of it is scrolling through your buffer using your keyboard rather than the scrollbar (as I mentioned I turn off the scrollbars).  If you press SHIFT+PGUP and SHIFT+PGDN it does the same thing as clicking on your scrollbar. Works good for that text that scrolls past the top of your terminal so you can go back and look at it without having to use the rodent. It even works in the virtual terminals (outside of X). I had used Linux for years before someone pointed that out to me.  I think it's one of the handiest things...

[ August 09, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Bazoukas:
When I first tried few months ago I saw VIM. And even though I cant say I realy know how to use it, it amazed me just by looking the options it gave you (all the syntax options and so on).

  As far as C++ goes, i am up to Pointers and classes now.

  Here I am making a web Site with C++ tutorials. I found that the best way to learn something is to teach it. I am still adding material in.
Full time work and 15 credtis dont leave much time.

 Oh yeah i know you gonna pull your hair with this, I made the web site with Front page cause I wanted to just put my crap in the internet fast. So dont freak out with all the script errors.

link

[ August 09, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

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