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  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications

(07-11-2015, 02:39 PM)venam Wrote: Accounting on Unix. First time encountering this topic. Care to clarify? Yeah ledger is a fantastic double-entry accounting system I use to keep track of our (my w...
thetornainbow BSD 115 88,159 08-11-2015, 04:59 PM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications

music: mpd+ncmpcpp video: mpv file manager: coreutils irc client: weechat terminal emulator: termite system monitor: htop/ncdu text editor: vim screenshot: scrot torrent client: rtorrent image viewer...
thetornainbow BSD 115 88,159 07-11-2015, 11:25 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

(20-10-2015, 02:28 AM)darthlukan Wrote: I'm currently in the process of thinking about a script or two that would make using it on my Jolla phone easier, as well as not requiring me to copy/paste fr...
thetornainbow Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,245 20-10-2015, 08:52 AM
  Thread: Jobs general
Post: RE: Jobs general

Just left my stuffy corporate job working in Telecom for a company that does managed and cloud-based IT services. I work as System Admin I doing whatever needs doing with around 70/30 split of Windows...
thetornainbow Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 27 43,977 05-10-2015, 10:35 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

+1 for lightline, it's the best powerline-ish vim plugin I've found.
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,075,766 24-09-2015, 09:22 AM
  Thread: What's on your wishlist?
Post: RE: What's on your wishlist?

I need a good rack for my growing homelab hardware. And I would love a can opener. Mine broke today.
thetornainbow Off topic 32 23,649 14-09-2015, 12:05 AM
  Thread: Kill one, marry one, fuck one - Unix edition
Post: RE: Kill one, marry one, fuck one - Unix edition

I'd have to say, Kill: Numix/ElementaryOS Marry: Crux, my ride-or-die bitch Fuck: OpenBSD
thetornainbow Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 46 35,508 10-09-2015, 03:46 PM
  Thread: The hosting-thread
Post: RE: The hosting-thread

I've just spun up an instance with Vultr and I've been really pleased with them. It's 100% KVM instances on SSDs, their pricing is very similar to the others I've had experience with (Digital Ocean an...
thetornainbow The WWW 12 13,463 05-09-2015, 07:47 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

Nice scrot xero. Don't post too many - I'm at work and I don't want to have to explain arousal.
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,075,766 12-08-2015, 04:37 PM
  Thread: What's your favorite book?
Post: RE: What's your favorite book?

Absolute OpenBSD is fantastic read. I think the way it's written, organization, and clarity should be a standard for technical-for-non-technical styled books. I've been making my way through it as I w...
thetornainbow Off topic 28 21,619 12-08-2015, 04:35 PM
  Thread: Hi
Post: RE: Hi

Welcome to nixers. Some of us are cool.
thetornainbow 13 7,726 01-08-2015, 10:08 PM
  Thread: Hi! =D
Post: RE: Hi! =D

(29-07-2015, 12:36 PM)xero Wrote: (24-07-2015, 01:48 PM)z3bra Wrote: Welcome to the game!fuck. i just lost "the game" At least we lost together.
thetornainbow 11 7,229 29-07-2015, 02:08 PM
  Thread: Looking for laptop
Post: RE: Looking for laptop

I have a Dell Inspiron 14z (mid-2013). 320GB HDD + 32GB SSD, 6GB RAM, Intel 2-core hyperthreaded i3. I got it for free when someone didn't want to go through the trouble of fixing it (Windows bootload...
thetornainbow Hardware talk 17 15,114 29-07-2015, 02:04 PM
  Thread: Hi there.
Post: RE: Hi there.

Hey welcome to the forums! Don't worry, soon you'll give up productivity and you'll wonder if you could start down the long rabbit hole that always approaches the nixiest setup of all. Anyway good t...
thetornainbow 7 4,709 28-07-2015, 10:31 PM
  Thread: Personal information management
Post: RE: Personal information management

Nice thread! To-do lists Since I really don't have time to pull out my laptop or sit down at the desktop just to look at a to do when I'm on the go, I just use Google Keep on my phone for quick to-d...
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 17 15,658 25-07-2015, 10:50 AM
  Thread: Hi! =D
Post: RE: Hi! =D

Hey, welcome to the circus
thetornainbow 11 7,229 25-07-2015, 10:34 AM
  Thread: Making a Crux port
Post: RE: Making a Crux port

The documentation is sparse simply because you don't need much to write a port. Generally what I do when I sit down to port something is check out a slackbuild or PKGBUILD or gentoo or similar to see ...
thetornainbow GNU/Linux 3 5,564 20-07-2015, 01:04 PM
  Thread: CRUX or Gentoo?
Post: RE: CRUX or Gentoo?

CRUX. Everything is so simple and clean. Writing pkgfile's is a dream and the ports system is great. Just my two cents. Although I've never done it, it's like someone did an LFS system with a package ...
thetornainbow GNU/Linux 32 41,581 11-07-2015, 12:52 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

Nice scrot zr0. boris, OpenBSD + Bspwm + Mednafen is a huge clue to which emulator he's using.
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,075,766 14-03-2015, 02:22 PM
  Thread: Quick forum question
Post: Quick forum question

Hey doods, I'm in final semester at my university, one course is a semester-long project of our own choosing. I've been toying with the idea of putting together something like a community place for my...
thetornainbow Community & Forums Related Discussions 1 2,456 22-01-2015, 03:18 PM
  Thread: What's on your wishlist?
Post: RE: What's on your wishlist?

Haha, anyone giving away invites to buy them? I'd love a OnePlus One as well.
thetornainbow Off topic 32 23,649 02-12-2014, 04:25 PM
  Thread: Show us your terminal
Post: RE: Show us your terminal

Thanks Venam! Just saw this post. Too busy lately...
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 38 34,060 13-11-2014, 11:50 PM
  Thread: Show us your terminal
Post: RE: Show us your terminal

Slightly older post, but here's mine! Show[Image: https://u.teknik.io/FFiFGX.png]
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 38 34,060 08-11-2014, 04:29 PM
  Thread: Show us your first scrots!
Post: RE: Show us your first scrots!

Having only used Linux for a little over a year, here's my earliest screenshot I have from last November: Crunchbang w/ spectrwm. [Image: http://i.imgur.com/8MhOhdE.jpg]
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 62 50,265 24-09-2014, 04:27 PM
  Thread: Preferred Terminal Emulator
Post: RE: Preferred Terminal Emulator

(08-09-2014, 07:29 PM)z3bra Wrote: (08-09-2014, 03:57 PM)thetornainbow Wrote: Plus, hating on VTE's heaviness when using Perl to extend functionality is funny to me. VTE is a dependency for your ...
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 24 23,603 08-09-2014, 09:27 PM
  Thread: Preferred Terminal Emulator
Post: RE: Preferred Terminal Emulator

I love termite. The hints mode, much easier copy/paste, url grabbing are just smooth as butter. I used to go with urxvt but I got so annoyed at Shift+insert (on an old MBP so no insert key :S). Not to...
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 24 23,603 08-09-2014, 03:57 PM
  Thread: Official Introduction from neo1691
Post: RE: Official Introduction from neo1691

Welcome to the forums! Don't drink the water, but you should be fine otherwise!
thetornainbow 9 7,620 25-08-2014, 08:29 AM
  Thread: Afternoon nixers!
Post: RE: Afternoon nixers!

Excellent! I like your patched 2bwm as well (and implicit nod to venam).
thetornainbow 10 8,943 22-08-2014, 07:48 AM
  Thread: Ricerous, A Community Project About Ricing
Post: RE: A Community Project About Ricing

I would humbly submit "rice cooker". I mean it's perfect. Right?
thetornainbow Desktop Customization & Workflow 66 69,240 21-08-2014, 03:25 PM
  Thread: Afternoon nixers!
Post: RE: Afternoon nixers!

I have a local repo of some ports that I have for myself. Lemonboy's bar, termite, GNU stow, some other things. I haven't gotten around to hosting them yet. Why do you ask? What happened to your CRUX...
thetornainbow 10 8,943 21-08-2014, 02:51 PM
  Thread: Afternoon nixers!
Post: RE: Afternoon nixers!

Haha, actually yes! I was going to be asking for that Pkgfile if you were...
thetornainbow 10 8,943 21-08-2014, 08:42 AM
  Thread: Hello!
Post: RE: Hello!

UNIX philosophy and minimalism loves you too. And me. And everyone!
thetornainbow 10 7,598 21-08-2014, 07:10 AM
  Thread: Post your specs.
Post: RE: Post your specs.

[Desktop] HP Pavilion CPU: Intel i3-2120 2.60 GHz (Quadcore) GPU: Dat Intel HD2000 (barely runs Nethack) 6 GB RAM 1 TB HDD OS: CRUX/Arch 2 22" Acer 1920x1080 IPS monitors WASD Custom Keyboard White wi...
thetornainbow Hardware talk 61 56,384 21-08-2014, 07:06 AM
  Thread: Afternoon nixers!
Post: RE: Afternoon nixers!

Sure! At the moment I have a desktop PC that I run CRUX and Arch on. Router's running DD-WRT, tiny home server set up with Debian stable running XBMC, CUPS, and simple backups. Spectrwm for every se...
thetornainbow 10 8,943 21-08-2014, 06:54 AM
  Thread: Afternoon nixers!
Post: Afternoon nixers!

I registered a few months back, but I started a new job and have been mainly lurking around. Glad to be here. Keep up the awesomeness!
thetornainbow 10 8,943 18-08-2014, 02:52 PM