2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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Title: The Setup / Neale Pickett
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After reading [Russ Cox's setup](http://russ.cox.usesthis.com/)
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I thought it might be interesting to write up my own.
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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29 December, 2015
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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Who are you, and what do you do?
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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I am a system administrater at Canonical (the people who make Ubuntu).
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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Mostly I hack around the periphery of free software projects,
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2014-10-24 09:14:53 -06:00
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occasionally tossing patches to projects that capture my interest.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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A partial portfolio is on my [source code page](src/).
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I also do computer security training for middle and high school kids,
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college students, and professionals.
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You can read about that at [dirtbags](http://dirtbags.net/).
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My hobbies include being a (laid back) disc jockey,
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and fiddling around with microcontrollers.
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Hardware
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I've decided to be very energy conscious.
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This means my hardware is low-power and not high-performance.
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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I use a Thinkpad X220.
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My wife uses a Chromebook from 2011, which she loves,
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and my daughter has an X220 that she doesn't turn on much.
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We have a brother printer that connects wirelessly and speakes Google Cloud Print.
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I can no longer print natively from Linux,
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which has mattered exactly once in the last two years.
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The family shares a Nexus 7 tablet,
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my wife and daughter have Nexus 5x phones,
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and I have a Nexus 6.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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We also have a Chromecast that's mostly used for Netflix,
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and a Wii.
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Software
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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I run Ubuntu with the Gnome 3 desktop,
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which is the first Linux desktop environment I actually like.
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I think this is mostly because it doesn't try to do many tricks.
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2015-02-02 21:26:20 -07:00
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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Inside Emacs I run Gnus for work email,
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and a comint-mode derivative I created for bouncing around work machines with SSH.
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I don't run any sort of terminal emulator:
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everything is `TERM=dumb` inside my emacs SSH sessions.
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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My other main program is Google Chrome.
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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Occasionally I will run Gimp and Inkscape, too.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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What would be your dream setup?
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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I'm pretty happy with what I have now,
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although I wish I had time to get Acme working for me as nicely as Emacs,
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since I am not an Emacs fan.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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It bothers me that X11 is such a horrible mess,
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but now that I'm not maintaining my own window manager,
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it's less of an issue.
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2014-09-18 12:12:56 -06:00
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2016-01-23 11:33:51 -07:00
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I'd like to get my daughter off her X220 and onto a Chromebook,
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because I feel like desktop system administration is a skill she will never need as an adult.
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But it's not enough of a concern to make me actually do anything about it.
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