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Comment on lbzip2: parallel bzip2 utility by Jakub

Jakub — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:05:35 +0000

Great tool, thank you for excellent description!

Comment on weather: check weather conditions and forecasts on the command line by weather-util, look-up weather info through the terminal « exper1ment1ng

weather-util, look-up weather info through the terminal « exper1ment1ng — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:25:14 +0000

[...] idea was taken from here and is just adjusted for the Greek weather. Unfortunately, there is no capability for weather [...]

Comment on lbzip2: parallel bzip2 utility by tsakf

tsakf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:28:16 +0000

I liked the artice very much, and the utility is fantastic. Added it to my library
http://fosslib.tsakf.net/record/285

Comment on leafpad: a graphical text editor that starts really fast by lightweight

lightweight — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:08:03 +0000

What you say if i say: MousePad is faster? Why not vim in urxvt(c) - powerfull, very fast and less ram usage? ;)

Comment on yeahconsole: a dropdown terminal emulator wrapper for X by lightweight

lightweight — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:01:54 +0000

If we have openbox wm: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=640710

Comment on timeout: send a signal to a process after some time by JM

JM — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:32:12 +0000

If you want to limit the overall children session duration, you should probably use timeoutd instead (with a final D). Unfortunately you’ll have to apply a patch to make it run correctly in Lenny but it is easy to do:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522233

Comment on lbzip2: parallel bzip2 utility by Laszlo Ersek

Laszlo Ersek — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:10 +0000

@ Samat Jain, November 12th, 2009 at 6:17 pm:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9wapf/boring_if_youre_a_casual_or_frequent_bzip2_user/c0et1ym

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9wapf/boring_if_youre_a_casual_or_frequent_bzip2_user/c0etjq6

I recommend lbzip2 for the case when you’re bound to or want to use bzip2, for whatever reason. I’m not saying you should choose lbzip2 over other compressor families.

For your LZMA related needs, you may want to check out llzip-0.02, downloadable from my site. It is a compressor-only lzip parallelization, based on lbzip2 and lzlib. Antonio Diaz Diaz, author of lzip, goaded me to write it :)

Comment on yeahconsole: a dropdown terminal emulator wrapper for X by Super Jamie

Super Jamie — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:05:39 +0000

I’m a big fan of stjerm - http://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal/ - it’s based on libvte as well

Comment on leafpad: a graphical text editor that starts really fast by H3g3m0n

H3g3m0n — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:09:12 +0000

gedit starts in under a second for me too. Although I have a SSD (Vertex).

If your looking for a fast text editor with some features for programmers (syntax hiliting, etc…), try ‘nedit’. It’s not GTK (or at least not gtk2 based) so it’s got a bit less overhead. Starts as fast as leafpad for me (but once again SSD here).

mousepad is also another choice if your looking for something similar to notepad.exe

If you want a full but lite IDE then I recommend geany. (also starts as fast as leafpad, I guess if you want a fast text editor, buy a $300 harddrive ☺)

Comment on yeahconsole: a dropdown terminal emulator wrapper for X by GTpyro

GTpyro — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:32:22 +0000

There is also Guake for Gnome.