My company upgraded their Ubuntu to 11.10 so I was faced with the choice between UNITY or Gnome 3. As I was using Gnome 2 before (and still will be for a while at home), I thought to try the...

I noticed xterm/uxterm being extremly slow on startup and also on displaying the fonts menu when running under a zh_CN.UTF-8 locale. strace shows the culprit: 03.833720 writev(3, [{"1\1\4\0\1\0\7\0", 8}, {"*-GBK-0", 7}, {"\0", 1}], 3) = 16 <0.000032> 03.845074 writev(3, [{"1\1\5\0\1\0\t\0",...

gnuplot is a great program for creating graphs. Sometimes you’d like to use it remote or even locally without the need to spawn an X11, Wx, Qt or PostScript viewer. Especially when working remotely without X forwarding, wouldn’t it be...