Following this article, I patched APF for use on Ubuntu and ArchLinux.
Hi guys! I’m sorry for the delay in the update in this matter but lately I had very little time for anything on the side. Anyway, I finally got around to it. (more…)
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Recently I upgraded my CPU to a Dual Core 2 Duo and am now running the x86_64 version of Arch Linux in which the makepkg tool can take advantage of the multiple core CPU and run make using multiple threads (great stuff). This is accomplished through the -jX option of the make utility (where X is the CPU count: 2 in my case). One can see the tremendous benefits of this when, for example, compiling the kernel (for me the compilation time dropped by almost 45%; I checked!). (more…)
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The smoothansi font from the Artwiz font pack seems to me to be the best font for programming possible!It’s amazing! It is bitmapped so no antialiasing is necessary, which makes it easily readable, it isn’t too small (like proggy fonts) for large displays, but still smaller than most TTF fonts so that more lines of code can fit into one screen. The only drawbacks are that it does not provide a Windows version and it does not have bold characters (that stinks)! (more…)
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