Plan 9 from Bell Labs was meant to be the successor of unix. Unfortunately, it is hard to make users replace something that is good enough by something better. It is free software. Plan 9 has a really nice text editor called acme. It has been ported to unix/X11 in Plan 9 from User Space, […]
Archives for January 2007
running Plan 9
It’s alive!
Dual Screen Fluxbox.. Black as Oil
Well, here’s my dual head setup. Yes.. I’m using a Commodore Amiga Series monitor for my second monitor which is on the left and I have a black DELL CRT for my right monitor. On the larger monitor, I have gDesklets with it’s launcher desklet. I also have IceWeasel and NCMPC (MPD client) on a […]
splitting large files or directories into small tar files
Every once in a while there comes a situation where a file is too big for a CD, or you want to store a file larger than 2GB on a FAT partition, or you want to make a backup of data with UNIX-style permissions (almost a 100% necessity if backing up a $HOME folder with […]
E17 just keeps getting better
Last weekend I got the newest E17 available via Ebuntu to try it out, and I can say it has made quite an improvement since the last time tried it. Some of the things I was missing are there now, like the taskbar, and other things are just easily configurable to fit my needs. I […]
Download YouTube video files with youtube-dl
Did you know that you don’t necessarily need flash to view YouTube videos? You don’t actually need to even visit YouTube to be able to watch a cool video that a friend gave you a link to. All you need is youtube-dl, a neat program written and actively maintained by Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez which allows […]