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By: In-house updates: Software page changes « Motho ke motho ka botho

In-house updates: Software page changes « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:40:48 +0000

[...] it’s a new year and rather than keep pointing people at this page when I want to show the programs I actually use, over the programs I just suggest, I redrew the [...]

By: Rounding out a terminal-based Debian system « Motho ke motho ka botho

Rounding out a terminal-based Debian system « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:47:18 +0000

[...] preference is for the terminal-based applications listed here, supplemented with a few from here. Not everything listed is included in the Debian repos, but what isn’t there is usually small [...]

By: A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho

A Windows XP-ish Debian at 120Mhz « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:23:10 +0000

[...] desktop was running Xorg 7.3, Musca and an array of terminal-based programs. And it complemented the same array of programs I use daily on my other [...]

By: Buying a name « Motho ke motho ka botho

Buying a name « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:01:27 +0000

[...] and triggered by setupcon) and I have enough space to do some work at least. All the same software I like (with the exceptions of the stuff I have added personally to my Crux systems) is available in the [...]

By: A console-only Ubuntu system « Motho ke motho ka botho

A console-only Ubuntu system « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:40:21 +0000

[...] After that, it’s pretty much cake and candy. I can use setfont to switch to the 12×6 Terminus font (reconfiguring console-tools seems to have no effect on the default font), and install any of a mess of applications that I regularly use at the console. [...]

By: Three weeks with the Pentium « Motho ke motho ka botho

Three weeks with the Pentium « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:00:20 +0000

[...] find the touchpad to be a little unusual. I don’t use it very often because Musca and all the applications I use are keyboard driven, but when I do it kind of throws me [...]

By: Travels with Charley « Motho ke motho ka botho

Travels with Charley « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:56:04 +0000

[...] networks, check weather reports and flight times without too much trouble. In my downtime I had vitetris, freecell and a long-running game of Nethack to keep me occupied, which was more than enough. I got [...]

By: Minor housekeeping « Motho ke motho ka botho

Minor housekeeping « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:54:02 +0000

[...] Minor housekeeping Published 2009/07/31 Linux Leave a Comment I’ve made some small adjustments to the software page, mostly in the section regarding terminal applications. I was looking over it the other day and realized what was listed there wasn’t particularly accurate, in one sense. [...]

By: Cleaning up is hard to do « Motho ke motho ka botho

Cleaning up is hard to do « Motho ke motho ka botho — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:26:17 +0000

[...] centerim keeps histories of chat sessions in its configuration directory, which I find a little annoying. I like each session to start clean, without the remainder of the last session appearing in the display. To the best of my knowledge, centerim doesn’t have an option to clear the history on its own, so I remove them myself. [...]

By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:53:40 +0000

I’ll echo jared’s thanks for the great list!

I’m trying axel too, and have already seen how it yields faster downloads. It intrigues me enough that I’m probably going to crack open the source code to see how it merges the output from multiple connections…