Not sure if it’s just coincidence, but Mac OS X Hints has a full screen terminal hint that was posted this morning. I have to say, I have tried iTerm and I don’t think I am ever going back.

I have been really using the text editor vi lately – in addition to using vi (actually vim, the expanded vi) exclusively for creating my Lilypond music files, I have also used vi to draw up my notes for documents at work. It’s worked really well for me, and I have gotten much more familiar with the vi commands.

However, I have one big complaint here regarding my Mac OS X laptop. There is no full screen option for the Terminal application. Sure, you can log in as >console, but you lose your ANSI colors in the terminal. Useless.

So I have been reduced to starting Windows in Parallels, logging in to my own laptop using Putty, and using Putty in full screen mode. Is this not crazy?

Update 2009-03-10: Alright, I tried out iTerm and I think all my issues are resolved.  It does full screen, and has a ton of features.  I never really understood why people would need features for a terminal emulator, but now that I’m using it more I can see the advantages.

Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife Laura thoughtfully got me a couple of brewing books – “Brew Like a Monk” and “Wild Brews”. Both deal with my current brewing journey – trying to recreate the Belgian style beers I first encountered in college with the Tripel Grimbergen. I love that monk…

How did she know to get me these books? She secretly researched at my favorite brewing blog, The Mad Fermentationist.

For some reason I have really turned into a command line junky in the last few years. That’s one of the main reasons I am switching web hosts. There are a couple of cool command line things I found recently that I would like to share with anyone interested:

1. goosh is an online command line interface for google. I just found this today, but I am very interested. I’ll be trying it out and post here if it works out or not.

2. todo.txt is a unix command line based shell script for organizing your tasks. I’ve been using it at work and at home for several months and it works great for me. Developed by Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani, it was recently updated with a couple of cool features.

3. This doesn’t really count, but I got source control religion the other day. I accidentally erased one of my important Lilypond text documents (that’s how I have been writing music since December – more on that in another post), and decided I would install Subversion and keep my Lilypond files in source control. Luckily I was able to reconstruct my lost file from the vi logs.

I moved nathanbibb.com from inmotionhosting to dreamhost last night. The main reason is a combination of command line access and a discount I got.

I am pretty sure I got everything moved over OK, but if anyone sees issues, let me know. Also, it looks like the users didn’t get moved over properly – not sure why. If you are anxious to comment, you should be able to re-register. Otherwise, I’ll try to find a why to port the users in.