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w3m renders HTML tables better. Or at least it used to, when I was setting up my mailcap a long time ago. For interactive terminal web browsing I prefer links/elinks (again, compar…

I miss the world clock too :( I wonder how hard it would be to write an extension.

There's a switch to turn that off in gnome-tweak-tool.

You get split Nautilus windows in GNOME the same way you get split anything windows: tile the window to the left (Super+Left or drag window until mouse touches the left screen edge…

You need to wrap the escapes in \[ \] to tell bash (actually readline) that these characters do not advance the cursor when printed.

This makes Alt-Backspace do the same thing as Ctrl-W, which is delete-everything-until-the-next-space. I'm missing the delete-last-segment-of-the-path function. Edit: I know I can …

I tried, for a week, got very frustrated and switched back. The little itch that drove me crazy was command-line editing: in bash (and all readline apps) when I have command long/p…

Personally I do not use virtualenv activation. Instead I prefer to explicitly launch Python and/or scripts with bin/python, bin/scriptname etc., either with my current working dire…

I added a newline (\n) to the beginning of my prompt. This way I never lose program output -- and also it's easier to see where previous commands begin and end in the scrollback bu…

You can't really do sums of top columns, because some memory is shared and you'll end up double-counting it. And you can't just subtract the shared memory numbers, because differen…

The ongoing efforts of the MemShrink project keep finding memory leaks -- usually in Firefox addons. You can read more about it at http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/mems…

While more powerful, atop is rather confusing. htop is friendly.

RSS also includes shared memory pages (those that are currently resident).

I can hit ZZ faster than ctrl-x ctrl-s ;)

> As a digraph they never occur in a natural language I wonder how Dijkstra would react to that statement.

Exactly. If you look at the sources, you'll see that the arguments are all joined into a single string with spaces, then split back into separate words using shlex.split(). So cat(…

In that case they were not FHS compliant.

As an example: I was playing Myst, uh, IV? And there was this puzzle that required me to find a short-enough path from one kind of a spot to a different kind of a spot (you had to …

Is solving puzzles exciting? People solve crosswords for fun. Not every programming task is exciting, but some can be fun.

Have you ever seen the fetchmail source code?

> the reference implementation and all known shipping versions of secure boot have a switch to disable it if the user so chooses Matthew Garrett reported a while back[1] that some …

This comment was clearly written by a non-Unicode expert ;) U+2070 SUPERSCRIPT ZERO (⁰) is not the same character as U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN (°). They look rather distinct on my screen …

Is this really a bug in grep, rather than a bug in Solaris's libc? I've never seen grep so slow, and I've been using UTF-8 locales for years . I'm not denying that grep was buggy (…

My fingers often type "test" when I want to type "text".

PYTHONSTARTUP also lets you enable things like * coloured prompt * tab-completion * persistent history Here's mine: http://mg.pov.lt/pythonrc