Posts tagged Ubuntu

Before: After: Patch: libvte4-drop-shadows.patch. Inspiration: Eterm, Keith Packard's xterm hack.

There's a nice litte program called xsel. It lets you access the X Window System selection and clipboard from the command line. It is incredibly useful for a Unix geek like me. $ xsel|grep -i error The above shows me all the lines that mention 'error' from my selection. Useful when a command produces oodles of output after several minutes of intense computation, and you realize that you should've redirected the output to a file.

A friend of mine told me yesterday that he got a significant disk access speed improvement by moving his Linux partition from the end to the beginning of the disk. The theory being that lower disk sectors are located on the outer rim, and are faster, because the disk rotates at a constant angular speed. I didn't believe this could give a 50% improvement, so I decided to do some benchmarking.

They did it! That's why I love Ubuntu and forgive it such minor lapses as occasional kernel panics. After all, I am running the unstable branch.

So I've got supybot running and logging to a text file (one file per day). My next goal was to produce nice, aesthetically pleasing IRC logs in HTML. First I defeated the urge to write my own IRC log to HTML converter from scratch. Then I started googling and was surprised how hard it was to find anything. I went through the whole IRC section in freshmeat.net. I finally decided that irclog2html.