tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post2701853358407772937..comments2008-09-10T11:18:34.285+05:30Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-54703611494976481962008-09-10T00:31:00.000+05:302008-09-10T00:31:00.000+05:30Perhaps, I have graduated to think of Operating Systems as just another tool :-).<BR/>how friggin true and down to earth, i once cheated a chap for some porn cds for windows 98 original cd with key. and then i downloaded rh 7.0 and i used it. i felt just one major difference between windows and linux/BSD. when installing windows in stage one? you will see "this may take several minutes." meaning the OS is made so dumb that it may take several more minutes to adjust with a basic block head may be more and in rh7 after 18 tries in one day on a p3 866 mhz i finally succeeded. so i concluded myself? "any operating system is just a tool which lets you adapt with the moronic world." and i said it when after 11 attempts i couldnt install and 12 th was a success and 17 th was the last failure attempt to bring X up. phew. tough night. since then affair with different OS is natural (geeky porn?) may be. wish i was well aware of cygwin then. <BR/>anyway sup "mongrel", you still run away from girls like you did in spencer's plaza? ;-) hehehe now here is one one secret which none of you knew about this chap. hehehehe. later in freenode! ciao! dunno if nick is still valid. <BR/>"thousand step journey has begun with 2 steps ahead of initial step. " - unknownAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-37886381954829364032008-08-06T17:04:30.579+05:302008-08-06T17:04:30.579+05:30Original comment by :sp2hari<br /><br />Nice article :) Was searching for a terminal better than the default one. :)Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-29290238336971968472008-08-06T17:04:29.407+05:302008-08-06T17:04:29.407+05:30Original comment by :prashmohan<br /><br />Poderosa remembers my config every subsequent time. Does it not do so for you?Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-22493587701940471992008-08-06T17:04:27.951+05:302008-08-06T17:04:27.951+05:30Original comment by :wcyee<br /><br />"Or if you want to use zsh (or any other shell), select Advanced configuration and change the shell from /bin/bash -i -l to /bin/zsh -i -l and hit OK. "<br /><br />Is there a way to get Poderosa to remember this? Just trying to find a way to not go through the click "Advanced configuration" and change info every time I start a shell.<br /><br />Thanks.Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-35104151933570576172008-08-06T17:04:26.835+05:302008-08-06T17:04:26.835+05:30Original comment by :Vijay<br /><br />Couldn't agree with you more about the fewposts-moretraffic thing. All my traffic comes from 2 posts i wrote :)<br /><br />Cool article! Can't wait for the one on Emacs!Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-13647850877405869792008-08-06T17:04:25.746+05:302008-08-06T17:04:25.746+05:30Original comment by :Vijay Dev<br /><br />"But now I use Windows a lot."<br /><br />Not one sane person who knew you in college would have dared to imagine this kind of a statement from you :) But hell, its true !!Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-61456626305470299782008-08-06T17:04:24.607+05:302008-08-06T17:04:24.607+05:30Original comment by :Prashanth<br /><br />As a student, I was broke and couldn't afford to buy software. The other reason I used FreeBSD and Linux was from a purely academic motivation. Now that I am _in_ microsoft, I have the same freedom with Windows as well.<br /><br />Perhaps, I have graduated to think of Operating Systems as just another tool :-).Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-91956026455741792542008-08-06T17:04:23.229+05:302008-08-06T17:04:23.229+05:30Original comment by :wcyee<br /><br />The change I made was in the other field - home directory. Poderosa defaults to /home/username but my real home directory, as configured in /etc/passwd is the same as my windows home directory. Logging in using bash.bat worked fine, but Poderosa kept sending me to /home/username (unless I manually changed it). It's entirely possible it remember changes made to the shell (bash to zsh, as in your case). <br /><br />Anyway, I figured out how to fix this:<br /><br />In "Poderosa\Cygterm\cygterm.cfg", I changed the "ENV_2" variable to reflect my root for home directories, and all is good.<br /><br />Thanks for replying to my commentsent.Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-79692397036741144112008-08-06T17:04:21.832+05:302008-08-06T17:04:21.832+05:30Original comment by :wcyee<br /><br />BTW, do you notice any graphic display problems when you run Poderosa? Every now and then there's a random pixel that lights up on the terminal, which goes away. Nothing serious, but just a little annoying. <br /><br />Also, have you found a way to add more fonts? I use Consolas for my CMD and it turns up in Poderosa, but unlike CMD, there's no way to choose a Bold Consolas. <br /><br />Just thought I'd ask in case you've run into either issue. Questions in the Poderosa forums don't seem to get very many replies (actually, none for the most part).<br /><br />Thanks for your writeup!Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-90156338278967324802008-08-06T17:04:20.167+05:302008-08-06T17:04:20.167+05:30Original comment by :prashmohan<br /><br />I have a mac. But no, I did not get the "ultimate computing" experience.<br /><br />What makes the Mac good is the unix core, what makes the mac better is macports and what makes the mac great is QuickSilver. <br /><br />Beauty is just skin deep you know :-). But jokes apart, the real differentiator for the mac is their well defined and uniform HIG (Human Interface Guidelines)Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-43440451684024745942008-08-06T17:04:19.186+05:302008-08-06T17:04:19.186+05:30Original comment by :prashmohan<br /><br />I use the Monaco font. And no I don't see an option to make the fonts bold either. Perhaps you could try replacing the Consolas font with the Consolas Bold font (i.e. only if you dont intend to use the Consolas regular font). Maybe it will trick Poderosa? :-)Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-91844157326499215482008-08-06T17:04:18.108+05:302008-08-06T17:04:18.108+05:30Original comment by :wcyee<br /><br />I don't want to replace the Consolas, because it looks fine when I'm using Visual Studio, but a bit strange CMD.exe or Poderosa. Making it bold works out well in the latter cases. I've got clear type enabled on my WinXP machine, so that's not an issue. Anyway, I don't know enough about fonts and displays to make an intelligent diagnosis. But I'll try poking around the Poderosa config and registry to see if I can get it to recognize Consolas bold. Thanks anyway!<br /><br />BTW, in case it matters, I'd love to read your writeups on zsh and emacs config. :-)Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-82313493038364135662008-08-06T17:04:16.659+05:302008-08-06T17:04:16.659+05:30Original comment by :Aravind Narayanan<br /><br />Windows and Linux boxes are just that - boxes.<br /><br />A Mac computer is a piece of art - elegant, beautiful and efficient. A perfect melding of software and hardware to produce the ultimate computing experience.Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10920416.post-89552783937932099402008-08-06T17:04:14.804+05:302008-08-06T17:04:14.804+05:30Original comment by :Vijay<br /><br />So true! The following happened so many times:<br /><br />Casanova: Dei do u have this feature on your box?<br /><br />Me: Nope<br /><br />Casanova: Dei your windows box so sucks<br /><br />:P<br /><br />Now,<br /><br />Me: You use Windows!!??<br /><br />Casanova: ah, windows :)<br /><br />Ironical that the guy who introduced me to linux now uses windows :)Prashanthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10688048557431809950noreply@blogger.com