More GNU screen Tweaks

I had a little time yesterday afternoon at lunch and last night while watching MNF to work on a few things I’ve had on the back burner. In a nutshell, I’ve wanted to further tie things together in screen with some kind of menuing. GNU screen allows users to set up keybindings to launch new [...]

Vimpress

I love wordpress blogging software. Unfortunately, my computers really don’t share that love. There’s a problem with “classic” computers and Web 2.0, especially when the shiny happy interfaces continually crash as older systems grind to keep up. It’s not just wordpress, it’s also gmail and similar interfaces that are smart on newer systems. Some sites, [...]

Linux Audio versus Everything Else

I had a chance yesterday to read Linux Hater’s post about problems with Linux audio drivers and APIs. The post is about pulse audio’s inclusion in Fedora, which led to broken audio for many Fedora users. Like lemmings, other distros decided if it’s good enough for Fedora then it’s good enough for them. Tumbling dominoes…
The [...]

Red Hat, Fedora Hacked

This Secunia notice answers some of the questions raised last weekend about why Fedora issued a warning for users to not update their systems until further notice. The source for Secunia is Red Hat, not a third party this time. It reads:
Last week Red Hat detected an intrusion on certain of its computer systems and [...]

More Thoughts on Linux Security

One of the reasons I took strong exception to Linus Torvalds’ recent comments about security is because there’s no longer a separate kernel line for development, as there were in earlier versions with an odd numbered line (e.g., 2.3 and 2.5) for development and even for stable. For all intents and purposes, the 2.6 mainline [...]

It’s Linux, Not GNU

I’m not a fan of using additional syllables where they’re not needed. I’m sick and bleeping tired of twits who insist I call every Linux distro “GNU/Linux.” Not every Linux distro uses GNU utilities. And many users’ experiences center on X, KDE, and other parts in userland that aren’t GNU or even GPL’ed.
I think one [...]

Productivity Tip: Increase Integration in the Software You Use

One of the ways to make console apps more GNU screen-friendly is to set them up so they spawn other things within the same instance of screen.
I use snownews to read through rss feeds, and use elinks as my default browser (with snownews, in screen, and outside of screen). Where I’ve been slowed down a [...]

UMPCs Will Not Lead to More Linux Desktop Share

Here are a few links of interest in relation to a discussion at LXer about Linux desktop adoption, UMPCs, and the mathematics of market share. (Edit: It appears I’ve been banned from posting at LXer. Fine. Whatever.)

Our first article of interest asks whether UMPCs like the Asus Eee are Windows killers. The conclusion: no. Far [...]

“Free Software Community” = Freeloaders

I saw a headline and snippet in my news feeds this morning that made me wonder if the article was worth reading or just more inane BS confusing what “free” means with respect to the GPL. I should’ve known that it would be belly-aching about price.
Why all the fuss over whether you can sell something [...]

Experimenting with mksh in DSL

I’ve been experimenting with shells (which will be the subject of my next productivity tip) while playing with DSL and dslcore. I’m looking for something that’s still responsive and “snappy” while providing more features than ash. Nothing against ash. It’s functional. Minimally functional.
If dslcore has a shell with a little more flexibility and power, maybe [...]