[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Chris K. Chew]

www.freshmeat.net will get you where you want to go for applications.
Please report any good apps you find.  I will be surprised if you find a
Visual Source Safe client for linux, seeing that Microsoft doesn't like
sharing their ideas.

Samba has made great headway over the last few years in getting linux
machines to play on MS networks.  They might already have support for active
directory, but I can't say for sure.  www.samba.org

Like Randy said, Vim is a great editor, allowing you to work without ever
leaving the keyboard.  Remember to use tools like awk, sed, grep, cut, sort
to help you be more productive as opposed to limiting yourself to the
"features" of your editor, which is how most windows users work.  It might
take a while, but the linux command line can get much more done than any of
the greatest gui-based editors.

If you don't like using the : in vim, you can try Emacs, which uses alt and
ctrl instead.

Get the Linux Desk Reference (from Softpro) to learn about great linux
commands like dmesg or tree.

Good luck!

Chris



-----Original Message-----
From: clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us
[mailto:clue-tech-admin at clue.denver.co.us]On Behalf Of Mike Staver
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:14 AM
To: CLUE
Subject: [CLUE-Tech] My transition


At work this week, I've decided that I'm going to be a rebel and ditch
the windows 2000 installation I currently have on my laptop in favor of
Red Hat linux 7.2.  Problem is - before I make this a reality, I need 4
things:

1) A very, very good HTML editor for linux.  I use Cold Fusion Studio
4.5 on windows - it doesn't write code for me, it just color codes
everything to it's easier to read.  I spend 8-10 hours a day coding with
this program, so it must be comfortable for me to use and be stable.

2) I need a front end that interacts with SQL Server 2000 remotely -
like enterprise manager does on windows.  Is there such an app?
Enterprise manager gives me a drill down into things like stored
procedures, tables, etc for a list of databases on our windows database
server.

3) An app that works similar to Visual Source Safe - that allows me to
open an MS Visual Source Safe 6.0 database.  That is our code
repository, and it is vital that am able to access this.

4) Some great howto on getting my new linux box to authenticate against
a windows active directory box.

With linux, I've already got my outlook clone, netscape messenger and
browser, mp3 player, and everything else I use a computer for.  It's
just these 4 things that will give me absolutely no reason to keep using
windows.  I can't expect my company to stop using windows, because the
accountants use 3 major tax software packages for doing
corporate/foreign national/expat tax returns, and ofcourse these
packages only run on windows.  So, I just need a workstation that plays
nice with the current windows network we have.
--

                                -Mike Staver
                                 staver at fimble.com
                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com
                                 http://www.fimble.com/staver
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