Comments on: Giving console applications a bad name

By: Cubuntu - Console Ubuntu part II | Indlovu

Cubuntu - Console Ubuntu part II | Indlovu — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:30:35 +0000

[...] Read K Mandla’s wonderful appraisal of the “end of civilisation” caused as a result of the rise of a [...]

By: How can it all fit? « Motho ke motho ka botho

How can it all fit? « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:48:12 +0000

[...] in swap. Fair enough, now let’s add a little to the workload. Here’s calcurse, which I mentioned a day ago as a fantastic replacement for the GTK-based Osmo, if you’re inclined to go [...]

By: How can it all fit? « Motho ke motho ka botho

How can it all fit? « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:48:12 +0000

By: Boycott Novell » IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 12th, 2009 - Part 1

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:02:45 +0000

[...] console applications a bad name < http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/giv… [...]

By: Mats Rauhala

Mats Rauhala — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:32:44 +0000

Have you tried Remind + Wyrd?

By: eksith

eksith — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:45:18 +0000

Behold!
The dawn of the Eternal September for console apps…

By: voltaic

voltaic — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:23:19 +0000

K.Mandla, it’s funny that you should mention calcurse in this post. Just earlier today — literally a couple hours ago — I fixed up a CRUX port for it and installed calcurse to try it out! So far I like it a lot. I might mind that it doesn’t support categories, but that’s on the TODO list according to the author.

I have also been meaning to make a recommendation for a window manager. If you don’t mind the configuration system for it (C header files) you should give DWM a try. Awesome was originally based on DWM, but it quickly diverged to the land of feature-bloat. Even on my fast Pentium M laptop I do notice a speed difference between awesome and DWM. You might appreciate the sparsity of DWM on your 100MHz machine(s).

By: James

James — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:12:37 +0000

I think the name alone makes me want to run it. Great wordplay. Looks (al)pine-esque.

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:38:24 +0000

Actually what sold me on it was how easy it was to set up a regularly occuring event — like a weekly meeting. I still can’t get that to work in Osmo. But calcurse did everything short of pressing the keys for me, and my weekly responsibilities are set through to eternity. Amazing.

By: Onyros

Onyros — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:43:22 +0000

Hahaha, I knew it!

It IS better than Osmo! When I suggested it, I was shy to say that, as I was once a big proponent and adept of Osmo.

There’s one quirk left to iron out for me: I can’t view notes (default key when in the appointments area is the minus key “>”). Bug reported, though!

The fact that calcurse calculates the time to the next appointment has become invaluable to me. And what about that awesome config file, and the fact that it stores everything in flat files? And the fact that it uses less memory than mutt? Actually, half of that!

Kinda makes us think how much computing has evolved, right? (where’s the green font?)