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Been a while hasn’t it?

Lyx is a LaTeX based word processor that takes all the hassle out of that kind of document writing syntax. It comes in plenty of variants for most of the major operating systems, unix, windows and mac.

Slickrun is a rather nice little piece of software. It provides you with a small box in the bottom left hand corner of your screen. Just above the system tray. In that box you can type in various commands to launch programs etc. It will autocomplete for you quite intelligently. It is fairly graphics intensive and does slow games down rather noticably. If I was any good at that sort of thing I’d love to make a nice samurize/litestep skin which had slickrun incorporated.

Well microsoft have done a great one here. All the Vista versions are going to be on the same DVD. I wonder how long it will take before some bod figures out how to make all versions available for free. D’oh!

The final nifty thing is the Neuros OSD. This is a small embedded PC running Neuros’s over flavour of linux. It is primarily a diskless PVR, but does have a whole host of features. Neuros have put up a whole number of bounties for people to claim to make a rather large feature list. They seem to have an active developer community which the company is putting a lot of support into. Now providing this can stream over the network to a fileserver I’m thinking it will be a heck of a lot cheaper than making my own MythTV box. Should be much easier to setup than a mythTV box too. Even one using Knoppmyth. Thinkgeek currently have a bunch of them up for pre-order.