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I’ve been humming some Joy Zipper tune for the last couple of days not knowing what it was. Turns out it’s Thought’s a Waste of Time off The Heartlight Set (streamable tracks in link). But there’s not a video for that, so here’s “Out of the Sun” instead…

Bonus fact: Joy Zipper currently list their influences on MySpace as “Monkeys Banging On Tin Cans” – which I think is something everyone can enjoy =D

If you’ve ever played Quake or its derivatives, you’ll know that you could hit tilda ( i.e. ` ) to bring up a console where you could fanny about w/ stacks of game settings (sv_gravity 200 springs to mind )

Well, you can do the same for a bash/shell terminal in linux with these handy progs:

Yakuake – Made for KDE, works well, except on my 8.10 (upgraded, not clean install) which sometimes doesn’t display the last line of text or update properly (on Nvidia 177 drivers).

Tilda – Made for KDE & Gnome (I believe) – mostly works well, unless it frackn seg-faults on startup at which point you have to delete the ~/.tilda folder to unfrack it.

Guake – Made for Gnome, works great, and my personal *uake of choice (pictured below).

To install any of these, just do the standard sude apt-get install yakuake/tilda/guake and see which one you like best. All have transparancy, tabs and a bunch of customisable features so there’s bound to be one you’re happy with and/or doesn’t spaz out – and once you’ve banged them into your Gnome Sessions or KDE Autostart a handy console will only ever be one fat-fingered key-stab away.

Marvelous.

Neato!