Amigan Choice Awards 2005

New: check out part II

As many people (particularly in #freebsd on freenode) know, I am very opinionated when it comes to applications. Most know I dislike bloat for the sake of eyecandy, and generally believe console apps are better than GUI equivalents. (not always the case). In this page, I attempt to list some of the best. And they are the best, because I said so.

The awards are as follows:

• Favourite editor: Vim
• Favourite mail client: Mutt
• Favourite IRC client: irssi
• Favourite MTA: sendmail (Postfix is OK too)
• Favourite window manager(s): Tied between WindowMaker, fvwm, and AfterStep (I currently use fvwm2)
• Favourite OS: why, AmigaOS, of course.
• Favourite Non-Unix PC OS: BeOS
• Favourite PC Unix: None other than FreeBSD
• Favourite shell: /bin/tcsh.
• Favourite AIM client: Tie between naim and pork (I also use Gaim on my workstation)
• Favourite IM system: Jabber
• Favourite Webserver: None other than the god of webservers Himself
• Favourite Web browser: Tough choice: Opera, and when I can't use opera, firefox (or Elinks as a close third)
• Favourite Programming Language: C, of course.
• Favourite scripting languages: Perl and Tcl.

Some technical stuff that doesn't suck:

• Valid HTML
• LaTeX, the TeX typesetting extension macros
• /usr/ports/misc/jive with my patch
• The BSD userland

And also, here are some non-technical things that don't suck ('tis rather random):

• Old rock music
• Any TV show that isn't of the "reality" genre (that stuff pisses me off)
• Old synths and organs
• Lava lamps
• Any tea (favourite is Earl Grey)
• LPs
• Manual SLRs (though my Minolta Maxxum 5000 isn't too shabby, either)
• Stuff that isn't new
• People who don't write like they are semi-literate
• 100.7 WZLX, one of the only good radio stations in my area (and even the area part is pushing it)
• The Simpsons

I probably forgot something. If (and only if) you are positive of this, email me. If you disagree, you are simply wrong.