The 10 years I spent in translation supervision I would not have traded for anything, but I do regret having been away from the programming trade for long enough that I slipped irretreivably behind the curve. Now all I can do is peer through the windows and drool...
Stop drooling (it's a shock hazard ;-) and dual boot Ubuntu and just start playing with it.
Google will have the answer to 99% of your questions so you'll be self sufficient and armed with one heckuva "roll your own" Swiss army knife of a tool at the end of the day.
I have my Xfce desktop set up with six virtual workspaces (though no compiz fusion for me, due to Intel graphics bugs), and when I really get into working on projects or assignments, I really do use all six of them.
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timeasmymeasure
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Date: 2009-12-14 02:24 am (UTC)Code authoring in one screen, compiler and tools in another, test VM running the code in the 3rd and your toys (music etc) in the 4th.
This is a highly common setup here in sillycon valley....
CYa!
Mako
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Date: 2009-12-14 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-14 03:28 am (UTC)Google will have the answer to 99% of your questions so you'll be self sufficient and armed with one heckuva "roll your own" Swiss army knife of a tool at the end of the day.
CYa!
Mako
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Date: 2009-12-15 05:26 am (UTC)It's almost enough to make me use eight... ;)
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Date: 2009-12-15 07:21 am (UTC)CYa!
Mako
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Date: 2009-12-15 09:26 am (UTC)(maybe I should try downgrading the Intel driver to the one supplied by the previous version...)