Tag Archives: console

It’s All About The Keyboard

June 28, 2009 – 22:47

The reason I favour some console applications over their graphical equivalents is that they’re designed to be easy to use with a keyboard. A little while ago I wrote about a day I spent trying to perform my usual online and music-listening tasks using console applications, just for fun. These days I spend my time [...]

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Text. Why Not?

June 1, 2009 – 19:23

A day or two ago I reinstalled Debian on my PC, removing in the process a mostly broken installation of Ubuntu 9 (no, it came like that). In the interest of avoiding the problems usually associated with Linux on the desktop I declined to install an X server.
This afternoon I fired it up and tried [...]

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