Posted in Linux, Tools on May 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You have already installed Ubuntu 8.04, right? Everything was fine, you got Firefox 3, perhaps even installed a beta of Firebug since 1.05 does not work with it, played around with some applications… you know, the usual things people do when upgrading an OS.
But, have you seen the new anti-aliased emacs? No, really, have you [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Linux on April 16, 2008 | No Comments »
The shell meme. Via Bill de hÓra. Type the following in a terminal window:
history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s\n “,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
My results, at work, on Mac OS X:
109 ls
109 cd
46 java
33 logout
27 ssh
24 emacs
18 cvs
15 javac
15 env
13 ./football2html.py
Oh, this is funny! I have used the [...]
Posted in Linux, tuProlog on January 12, 2008 | No Comments »
It seems that the command line interface of tuProlog (also known amongst its few users as prompt or CUI console) reacts in quite an irritant way to some particular keystrokes under *nix based systems (that is, mainly, Mac OS X and Linux). When trying to summon some kind of command history by pressing the Up [...]
Posted in Linux on June 1, 2006 | 4 Comments »
I have just upgraded my Kubuntu installation from Breezy (version 5.10) to Dapper (version 6.06) following the instruction found on the release announcement web page. Results are as follows: the kubuntu-desktop package has been uninstalled (yes, it is a known bug but, really, lowering the upgrading process quality, aren't you?); my Eclipse installation has disappeared, [...]
Posted in Linux, MacOSX on January 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve ranted about Mac OS X before, and my recent finding of how even Keynote, another Apple application, breaks the usual shortcut to change focus between windows in the same running application, just adds to the disappointment. Luckily, I use a Mac at work, so I’m not into some applications like iPhoto, and that saves [...]
