I’m an uncool computer scientist
As 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?
