Went through the officially recommended upgrade process for Ubuntu last night. Overall extremely painless and reminded me why its worth using a distro with package management. A few notes though: One of the first things I like to do is blacklist pcspkr, I hate that beep and it is almost always useless for me. It [...]
My favorite new Firefox plugin is vimperator. Makes firefox operation a whole lot more keyboard friendly. Today, totally by accident I discovered the most useful keybinding yet. ;t It highlights all available links in the current page and assigns them a number. Type the number to have the link launched in a new tab in [...]
A fun little program on *nix that takes no explaining is fortune, usually found at /usr/games/fortune. It can be used to display brief messages in console or otherwise. It just so happends to be rather easy to create a custom ‘fortune’ file to display whatever you like. I’ve created one that displays romanian quotes, thanks [...]