So what software tools do you use with your Livebox
21 March, 2012 - 22:04
I am thinking of Text Editors, FTP programs, Telnet clients, Browsers
My desktop is normaly a Windows XP system, I use :-
Textpad for editing LUA scripts, ini files and text files
FTPWanderer for FTP file transfer
Putty or PuttyTel for Telnet sessions or watching a serial port
IE8 as my normal Browser, Chrome when that does not work properly
I am not saying these are the best, no sneery comments about "my xx is better" please, they are just what I am using right now
What do you use?
kevint
22 March, 2012 - 00:59
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What do I use?I use to run
What do I use?
I use to run VMware workstation and a VM with CentOS when I initially started writing the HAH code but I shifted all this to a crusty dell D620 laptop I had laying around not being used. Now days I run on a w2k8-hyperV VM in Dereks basement (remotely) as my other laptop is packed up. Mostly I run a vncserver on Linux and from a windows desktop I run vnc viewer as a front end to it, this gives me a remote graphical session. Emacs is my editor, as I've done since circa 1988 (best editor ever) its old but its still the best. I run Emacs on windows too, and every remote Unix system I have to work on. One to rule them all; learn and master just one. Oh and vi because its evil.
All coding is done off of the HAH, so it should port to the Pi pretty easily more on that later... I run a complete LUA environment identical to the HAH on my Linux development box this makes coding and debugging much easier. I could do this on windows too if I wished as LUA is platform portable. There are just a few backend C modules that need compiling, but these are off the shelf and I know they exist pre-compiled for windows. Again Emacs has a LUA mode for syntax highlighting etc so its my editor for this too. Somewhere on this forum I've posted up my Linux lua development system as a .tar.gz file if anybody care for this.
Development of the AVR code is done using the Arduino IDE on windows. Which reminds me I need to rename the file extensions for IDE 1.0 (.pde -> .ino) just because it works and I don't hate windows that much.
Windows tools i use often/daily: notepad++, emacs, 7zip, filezilla, winscp, putty, winmerge, [firefox, ie, chrome], vnc viewer, password safe (keep them locked up), tortoise svn, pidgin, vsphere client (esx hypervisor client), skype, openvpn. On demand: wireshark, netbeans (java ide), komodo (python ide), visual studio (C/C# ide), nxclient, xmlspy, photoshop and sql developer.
Brett
I quite like PSPad, always seemed to do what I wanted, also I haven't managed to choke it with massive files.
that FTP wanderer is quite cool and a Norton commander clone, oh I feel old.
I like Filezilla though want to feel I'm in ftp. A bit like dressing for dinner.
Izarc / 7Zip for tar.
IE8 just seems dirty sorry.