I’m an uncool computer scientist
SoftwareAs with my social life, I seem to instinctively pick things that aren't "cool" in computer science. Or so I've been repeatedly told :P. Here's a list I was typing on my phone over the course of this morning.
The listy thing
What’s Cool | What I Prefer |
---|---|
GNU/Linux | FreeBSD, Mac OS X |
OpenBSD | NetBSD |
bash, zsh | tcsh |
elinks | links |
emacs | Vim |
mutt | [Al]pine, TBird |
Rijndael | Twofish |
Triple DES | Plaintext |
Eclipse | NetBeans, TextMate |
git | Mercurial |
Gnome Terminal | LilyTerm |
Nautilus | emelFM2, Thunar, ROXFiler |
OOo, Google Docs | Gnumeric, AbiWord |
Google Reader | Bloglines (but I caved in!) |
PathFinder | Finder |
Licence qualms | TrueCrypt |
IPv6 | Not compromising privacy |
Konqueror (KDE 3.x) | Dolphin (KDE 3.x) |
xterm | urxvt |
Xmonad | dwm |
Apache | Lighty |
Ubuntu | Sabayon, Fedora |
Chrome | Firefox, NoScript |
Photoshop | The Gimp |
Illustrator | Inkscape |
LaTeX | DocBook (for plain text) |
QuickTime X | QuickTime 7 Pro |
Ruby On Rails | … erubis? |
Svelte Apple keyboards | Buckling spring Unicomp |
Android | iOS |
iPads | Old ThinkPad X40 |
QBASIC | QPascal |
C#.NET | Borland C++ (back in the day!) |
Praising Windows 7 | Hating on Windows 7 |
Windows Aero | Windows "Classic" |
Tumblr | Extra blog entries |
Client-side JavaScript | Server-side processing |
Beautiful, premade blog themes | Self made, terrible blog theme :) |
Lady Gaga | Marian Call |
Akiyama Mio | Kotobuki Tsumugi (pictured) |
The Pocket Tiger | Minori |
C.C. | Kallen |
Chocolate | Vanilla |
Blond | Black, brown |
Drunkenness | Calm lucidity |
Loud | Quiet |
Clear days | Overcast days |
Blog posts with a point | Blog posts… like this |
The question thing
Are there any things you use or prefer over a so called "cooler" alternative?