After a long day of working in the yard, I sat down at my computer after the kids had gone to bed and decided that rather than falling asleep with my finger on the Z key while coding (which somehow leads to buggy code), I'd be better off doing something less involved. I opted to upgrade my Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon install to the newest Kubuntu Hardy Heron release.

One of my favorite sites, Lifehacker, ran an article on a text replacement tool for Linux called Snippits a day or two ago. Basically, you type in a small bit of text, like "sig" and hit a key combination and the Snippits program looks up the text you've designated to replace that and it swaps it into place. Very nice. And very timely. I'd had a conversation with a friend the day before about how much I wanted that functionality.

Need to check on how much of your system resources a certain program is consuming? (Maybe you left Firefox on over night and want to see how huge it is due it its famous memory leak).

In KDE:

Or on the command line:

After a few months of dual booting Windows XP and SuSE Linux 10.2, and feeling rather bifurcated by the workflow, I've finally hit upon my perfect setup.