For a long time my favorite Terminal program has been Guake. It is “a drop-down terminal for GNOME Desktop Environment.” It is always available and hidden when not in use. Simply press a button and it pops out from top…

There is a wonderful command on UNIX systems to return the width of the current terminal. Enter  tput cols and see for yourself! Tput can actually provide a lot of different info by querying the terminfo database. Really all I’ve needed though is…

When using git, I much prefer using the command line as opposed to any GUI applications. However, a problem arises when merging conflicts between the local branch and the remote. Looking at the file and doing it manually can be…