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Published on Saturday, 18 October 2008 20:36

Quanta and jEdit

I had a quick look at the Quanta editor to see how it compared to Bluefish that I currently use. It appears to be a more complete package but the features that I felt were missing from Bluefish weren’t part of Quanta either. I came across another editor that looks pretty good although relatively simple. Its called jEdit and so far it actually looks like the sort of thing im after. Its reasonably easy to use and while there are a couple of elements missing it already seems to be better for me than Bluefish. The main benefit is being able to have a “Site Menu” option similar to Dreamweaver. When I first ran jEdit I had to play about with the settings for a a few minutes in order to get word wrap setup properly (finding it wasn’t exactly obvious and I then had to choose the Soft option and specify a 0 value so that it wrapped to the text display width!). The default font setup looked pretty dire too as you need to turn on anti-aliasing.

Intrepid Ibex

It’s not long till the next release of Ubuntu comes out (8.10). 24 days according to the website. As the wireless issues look to be a thing of the past I think I’ll upgrade pretty soon after the release date. Its always good to keep up to date with security and all that.

Bluefish Editor

I’ve been using Bluefish lately as my editor on Ubuntu and its proven to be reasonably ok. There are quite a few features that I like that are in Dreamweaver but lacking in Bluefish but its useable enough. The other main editor out there seems to be Quanta so I might give it a try and see how it works. It seems to be more comprehensive and may offer a bit more flexibility – but we’ll see. The Audioscrobbler website had a major makover lately and they now have realtime updates of music stats. Pretty impressive really considering the amount of data handled. I read the blog page regarding the update and its funny how many people hate change (many shouts of “can we have the old site back again”). It reminds me of all those who hated Quake when it first came out then loved it once they found multiplayer.

Hardy Heron

I’ve been setting up my new install of Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my main PC. Fortunately there is default support for my Belkin wireless adapter out of the box (except it doesn’t seem to like my router using WEP security). When I had Ubuntu on my second machine I spent many hours trying different setups to get it working (each time there was a major update I had to try a new method). I’m pretty much at the stage that I no longer need to rely on Win XP for anything (gaming etc.) so I decided to just do a single OS install this time and forget about XP. At first the graphics were doing a sort of strobe effect but all seems fine when using the restricted drivers. I am currently trying Banshee for music purposes although the latest v1.0 wasn’t in the Package Manager by default (perhaps as its Beta). Hopefully at some point there will be a way to view by Album Artist like Windows Media Player does (I think Amarok does but overall I prefer Banshee so i’ll stick with it for the moment). So far it’s all been pretty good with Ubuntu and I’m getting to like it quite a lot.