Edward Andrew Robinson

Well its been ages since my last real post, but life and twitter have been keeping me busy. Ever since I started using computers every 5 months or so I get board of my current computer setup and start to look at my other options, this can be anything from replacing a program, to changing my OS. This makes Ubuntu’s six month release cycle perfect for me because I can get get tired of my current setup in 5 months start messing with my computer then reinstall with the latest release of Ubuntu. I have found many grate programs this way like Miro, and Geany, and I love both of them dearly. Well I have found a new love to add to that list: tilda.

While the tilda website sucks including unfound images on the homepage the program is great. The idea of tilda is to provide the user with a “terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few)”[1]. The great thing about this is that it lets you collapse a lot of your terminals into one terminal (I’m sure I will still have a few terminals open to monitor things that I’m running) but in general it lets you map a hot key to pull down a notebook of terminals (like the tilda(~) would do in the games mentioned above).

Before Tilda

After Tilda

I really do love this application and it gives me a neat new way to interface with my computer. It is perfect for when I am programing and I want to then quickly switch to the terminal to compile my program now instead of <Alt> + <Tab> I can use <Super> + <Space> and bring down my terminal.

For those of you still running hardy you may want to upgrade to the latest version (yes those instructions will work with the latest version) but even then there are still a few features I would like to see mostly I would like each desktop to have its own terminal’s (right now they all share the same ones).

What apps do you love?

I know that this has been done before but it seems to go around every once in a while and I always have fun reading them. So once again here are my top 10 commands.

My Computer
[sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@MinusOne:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
143 cd
114 ls
53 make
48 svn
34 svnup
18 sh
12 cat
11 rm
11 geany
9 touch
earobinson@MinusOne:~$ alias svnup
alias svnup=’. /media/data/dev/scripts/svnup/svnup.sh’
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Laptop
[sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@NaN:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
138 make
82 ls
70 cd
41 cmake
33 svn
19 svnup
18 cat
16 man
12 ./A/runA
10 geany
earobinson@NaN:~$ alias svnup
alias svnup=’. /media/data/dev/scripts/svnup/svnup.sh’
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Girlfriends Computer
[sourcecode language="python"]earobinson@Null:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
49 espeak
7 sudo
1 vi
1 top
1 ssh
1 man
1 ls
1 history|awk
1 history
1 exit
earobinson@Null:~$ espeak “love ya baby”
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