In my option, irssi is the best irc-client ever created. It is lightweight, well customizable and stable. With screen you can keep your irssi online 24/7, and then you can connect to your client from any machine that has Internet connection. My best uptime with irssi is about 60 days, so it is pretty stable. (Reboot killed my irssi)

But here is list why irssi is the best irc-client:

• Fast and lightweight - works on almost any machine
• Console application (no gui) - you can ssh to it and irc without X-server running
• No mouse - I simply love this, I don’t have to move my hands away from the keyboard!
• Customizable - Almost everything can be changed. And there is also nice perl scripting support. (look at script directory)
• Logging - Good logging that even supports log-rotation
• Themes - Lots of cool themes.
• Proxy - You can load irssi-proxy module and connect to your irssi with any irc-client. I think that this is also the best proxy software.

For me it is essential application. I simply can’t live without it.

Irssi homepage

Couple minutes ago I upgraded this blog to latest release. I think that someone should make better way to upgrade Wordpress. I want a Package Manager for Wordpress.

Apt-get like package manager builtin to Wordpress would be awesome. It is already possible to update plugins automatically, but I would also like to install and delete plugins without ftp access.

Package manager should also manage Wordpress core files and upgrade them automatically when new stable release is out.

It is just so boring to upload upgrades via FTP… I would really like to see something like this in future.

I really don’t know why I hate gnome, I just hate it. After moving from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, my productivity have drop dramatically and my computer have become unstable and slow. There is so many little things that I don’t like on gnome, and just 3 things why I like gnome.

First things I like on Gnome:

• Dropbox works (It requires nautilus)
• Firefox looks nice without changing theme (on kde with default settings, it looks horrible)
• Compiz works well

And then the bigger list, why I hate Gnome:

• Task manager/System managing
• Its slow (on my computer at least)
• It is unstable (KDE is stabler.)
• I don’t like panel system
• I don’t like nautilus
• I don’t like “simplicity”
• I don’t like terminal emulator
• I don’t like menus. (applications/places/system)
• I don’t like default colors
• I want my Amarok in native environment
• I want konqueror!

Yes, many things aren’t so big and can be fixed, but I like KDE, it works on me better than Gnome. I hate Gnome, but someone else may like it. (?)

So I will install something to my current system, Wmii or KDE. And when next Kubuntu release comes out, I will and download it and install it.

Update: installed kubuntu 8.04 now happy with it

Some time ago I found excellent music player called Songbird. It has cool iTunes like interface and it can be modified easily. Because it has been based on same XUL-engine that Firefox uses, you can install addons easily. Addons are automatically updated when new version come.

Best features:

• Customizable
• Themes
• Good last.fm Scrobbling integration
• Multi-platform
• SHOUTcast radio integration
• Smart playlists
• It is open source

But there is some bad things also. It is not as fast as Amarok (taking 125megs of memory!) and it doesn’t support PPC-processor on Mac. ( I don’t have Intel Mac ) So when I use KDE I will play my music on Amarok, when I have Gnome I will use Songbird and when I am on myMac I will use that annoying iTunes.

I am waiting for a 1.0 release…

Screenshot of my songbird

Wmii is advanced light weight window manager for Unix systems. Before Wmii I used KDE, but now I have Mac where I can manage my photos, surf the web and listen to the music. On my Linux box I just play couple of games and write my applications, and mostly I just use terminals. After reading a article about lightweight window managers found Wmii.

Wmii is designed to use with keyboard, without mouse and this is only a good thing for me! If you learn all shortcuts of Wmii before giving up you have superior fast, powerful and comfortable way to manage your terminals.

Because Wmii is just a window manager, it doesn’t include some of the important features like mounting a device, volume control and file manager. Using Internet I learned how to mount devices from command line. I also found cli-applications for controlling volume and files. I control volume using alsamixer utility. For file managing I use command line application called Midnight commander.

Here is screenshot from my new desktop:

My Linux box running Wmii