Aside from your browser and system processes, what are the top 10 programs you use most frequently on a daily basis?

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 14.84.26

% cat .histfile* | sort | awk {'print $1'} | uniq -c | sort -rg | head
129 ls
118 mplayer
98 sudo
66 cd
31 vi
30 perl
27 mv
24 ping
24 ls
24 dmesg

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 15.46.78

Let's see, this changes depending on the semester and stuff. Currently, I'd say...
Thunderbird
VLC
Visual Studios
Steam
Pidgin
My custom-built alarm program
mIRC
metapad
A suite of programs needed for a course I have this semester
And...um...something...let's call it...Wait! I know! The calculator.

(Seriously, that was hard.)

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 16.48.6

Mostly in order:

Emacs/Slime
Evince
Idle
Vlc
Pidgin
Evolution Mail
Ubuntu One (oh man do I love this)
Gedit
Eclipse
and either Sudoku or GIMP

Yeah that is actually a lot harder than I thought, really had to struggle with the last one; my Eclipse usage would've been much higher but I recently blew up the install of it on my primary machine when I was playing with plugins without using the manager for it, oops.

Also Omni I am jealous of your Shell-fu.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 16.80.32

Even if I knew enough script-fu to do that, it wouldn't work, being as I do things on three computers.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 17.7.94

Don't be too hard on yourself, I've had lots of practice. :)

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 18.58.10

What does your list look like by the way Blake? I am incredibly interested in how the programmers that I know run things.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:0 - 18.88.84

Arbiter (minesweeper clone)
word
mIRC
CamStudio
Notepad
Paint
Nonosweeper
Hexmine
Hex Workshop
Sappe4Ever

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 0.6.34

When I had a computer...
Eclipse
Blender
Word
Notepad
Gimp
Does firefox count?
Sony Music Program.
Aim
Paint
Does Python in general count?

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 8.31.34

(n.b. half of this is from memory, since I've been on the road for 4 weeks now)

PuTTY
X-Chat
Steam
Notepad
Foxit Reader
Thinkvantage Access Connections (Thinkpad wifi control software)
Winamp 2.95
screen
Windows Media Player 11
VLC

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 9.11.74

Not too terribly exciting:

• Notepad
• Notepad2
• Visual Studio
• Blend (obviously)
• Outlook (have to)
• Instant messaging thing that's internal to Microsoft (basically a Live Messenger without ads and a work directory built into the UI)
• Pidgin
• Zen Player (minimalistic media player I made)
• Odd (text file diffing program)
• Python

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 9.40.90

My only real annoyance with Visual Studio is that it doesn't have the formatting and clean-up scripts that eclipse does. I'd still use eclipse like I did for Java if I'd been able to get C++ to work with OpenGL, but it's probably for the best since our code is going to be tested in VS for Windows, anyway.

Though, there are other cool eclipse things that I miss, such as automatically realizing what imports/includes you want (though I don't know if eclipse is able to do that for C++), renaming every instance of a variable, automatically placing empty method declarations to be instantiated from superclasses...

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 9.57.27

You say this as though Visual Studio doesn't do these things.

• Right click on your code and click "Organizing Usings --> Remove and Sort". Sure it doesn't add the ones you don't have, but 90% of the time, the problem is having too many extraneous usings that were prepopulated or carried over from the file you copied from.
• Move the text cursor onto a variable. Hit F2.
• Right click on the interface or inherited class in your class declaration. Click "Implement abstract class..."

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 9.74.47

Firefox
BOINC
Word
Excel
IE
Paint.NET
and, more rarely....
Civ IV
Powerpoint
Notepad2

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 10.60.5

It was more of an "If Visual Studios does do these things, then I haven't figured it out yet." Thanks for the tips, though I guess I'll just have to live without formatting/clean-up stuff.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:1 - 12.13.47

You mean spacing/syntax/curly-braces cleanup? Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> All -> Tabs -> Smart. When you close a curly brace, it should fix all the spacing and formatting for the block you close.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:2 - 2.31.16

Well, now about the only thing that I can think of is eclipses format for error and warning reporting...
(I just planned to be all macho and work on doing all this manually, this should make me more efficient!)

(What can I say? I'm a lazy bum who doesn't feel like googling how to do things quicker, so, ironically...he gets more work...)

Edit:


Interestingly enough...none of those worked. Organize Usings doesn't appear, nor does Implement abstract class

Posted at 9 Cado 8:2 - 6.57.71

Mine does.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:2 - 12.20.46

This is a guess, in no particular order. This is on my Mac, which has slowly become my main computer:
GIMP (I use this way more often than I should.)
Adium (version of GAIM, or whatever it's called these days. I really hate this program, but I'm too lazy to switch.)
TextEdit (like wordpad. Always open with some notes, because I never feel like using my computer's built-in post-it thing.)
[mu]torrent (Running almost constantly. Sharing is caring.)
Ableton Live (my primary DAW. Good for mixing, remixing, ****ing with audio, and controllerism.)
Reason 4 (MIDI sequencing program. I may downgrade to Reason 3 soon.)
Audacity (Quick and dirty for when I'm too lazy to set up Ableton. I have it set up to support MP3 and FLAC, which helps.)
iTunes (I sold my iPod, so I really have no excuse to use this any more. I use enough plugins and add-ons to make it almost tolerable. Maybe one day I'll go the Blake route and make my own program.)
VLC (Of course.)
Xee (basic image viewer, way better than Mac's Preview.)

My primary browser is Firefox and I don't use an email client. I also have a plugin called MultiClutch running all the time, which allows me to set multitouch gestures to keyboard shortcuts.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:2 - 18.23.91

From the Start Menu + Quick Start (I still can't get used to things not being in both):

Visual Studio
Internet Exploder
Word
Paint
Getting Started
Calc
Connect to a Projector
Sticky Notes
XPS Viewer
Snipping Tool
Windows Fax and Scan

That's what happens after you install Windows 7.

Posted at 9 Cado 8:2 - 18.87.96

Firefox
Pidgin
Halo: Combat evolved
Star Wars Battlefront
Notepad
Microsoft Word
Frets on Fire (I like gaming)
MSPaint
CutePDF writer
Internet explorer

Posted at 9 Cado 9:1 - 13.74.33

According to the Start Menu:
Paint.NET
Exp. Blend
Exp. Web
Blender 3D
Excel 2010
Exp. Encoder SC
Inkscape
VS 2010
Audacity
Chrome

(And Thunderbird should be on there, somewhere, too.)

Posted at 9 Cado 9:1 - 14.82.89

I made that.

Posted at 9 Cado 9:4 - 11.64.98

Blender
XAMPP
Notepad++
Foobar2000
Picasa
Netbeans
Photoshop
Premiere
Filezilla
Word
WordWeb

I don't know what exp. blend is or I would say 'cool' or something.

Posted at 9 Cado 10:0 - 14.69.10

Also interesting, I was wanting to try the code metrics thing just to see how many lines of code my one project is, but that doesn't come up, either. What's really weird: I'm using Visual Studio 2008 Pro, which I thought introduced code metrics.

Posted at 9 Cado 12:3 - 11.2.45