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August 9, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» unthinkable paranoia

Internet is now proved to be unsecured even if DNS are patched and i reached and unthinkable level of paranoia. Given that launchpad ppa (which are awesome for QA) doesn’t use signed packages, so i can’t actually check the integrity of them i’ve changed all my sources.list from url’s to ip’s so i can’t (at least i hope) be vulnerable to cache poisoning \o/

P.S: Please launchpad team, make ppa use signed packages!

June 6, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Terminator 0.9 beta 1

Terminator 0.9 Feature Freeze has come, i’m really excited to see the new features working, they are awesome, but what are this new exciting features?

  • Tabs: Now terminator supports tabs, you have different tabs with splited terminals on each one.
  • Drag & Drop: Now you can reorder your terminals, you just need to press Cntrl + right click and drag and drop your terminals wherever you want!
  • Terminal zooming: This is one of the more exiting ones, have you expect problems when using splited terminals and one of them turns to little for some seconds? Now you just need to press ctrl+shift+z to have this terminal on the whole window and then use the same key combination to put it back on it’s place! It’s awesome!
  • Terminatorrc: Don’t like gnome environments? Now you don’t depend on gnome-terminal to configure your terminator, you can use ~/.terminatorrc to tune your terminal as you want it to be
  • Titles: kind of confused when using ssh connections inside terminator? Now we support titles, so you always have a title on each splited terminal to know where you are working on

It’s really awesome to see al this changes comming, they make terminator really usefull, want to try them? Help the terminator team to test it, just add my ppa to your sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nvalcarcel/ubuntu hardy main

Download it:

$sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install terminator

And report bugs if you find some: https://bugs.launchpad.net/terminator

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