Desktop in a shell
People are using computers, everywhere, really! ;) As you might guess correctly, so do I. Basically, I am using three computers: my laptop (ThinkPad X201s, awesome machine, but pabs told me not to post...
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Continuing my series about a desktop in a shell, today I will present you my mutt setup. I use mutt because it has no bugs and is a really good MUA for people loving consoles ;) First of all you have...
View ArticleDesktop in a shell: irssi
Continuing my series about my desktop in a shell, in this chapter I will present you my irssi setup. Irssi is the most customized part of my setup, using many scripts from the irssi-scripts Debian...
View ArticleDesktop in a shell: newsbeuter
Another week, another post from my desktop in a shell series. This time: newsbeuter, my RSS/Atom/whatever feed-reader of choice. Newsbeuter is a config-and-forget kind of tool. You only have to touch...
View ArticleDesktop in a shell: mutt with multiple IMAP accounts
It’s been a long time since my last post about my “desktop in a shell“, but today I stumbled over something absolutely awesome I want to share with you. A bit of background: I am using mutt with a...
View ArticleDesktop in a Shell: irssi with nicklist support and away nicks
Yesterday I finally got my girlfriend to switch from X-Chat to irssi. Well, she actually switched herself as she wanted to have a persistent backlog and the ability to connect to it from everywhere....
View ArticleSay hello to Mister Hubert!
Some days ago I got myself a new shiny Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD for my laptop. The old 80GB Intel was just too damn small. Instead of just doing a pvmove from the old to the new, I decided to set up...
View Articlediffing configuration files made easy
Let’s assume you are a sysadmin and have to debug a daemon giving bad performance on one machine, but not on the other. Of course, you did not setup either machine, have only basic knowledge of the...
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