[ale] [OT] Laptop Battery Worth It?

[The Don Lachlan]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:14:00PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 13:02 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Who's "bright" idea was it to make these long, thin screens that can't
> > put two 80x24 terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, etc) above/below each
> > other? 
> Well, I dunno.  I use 132x43 as my default terminal size.  I find 80
> columns to just be restrictive for a lot of the things that I do.
> (Programming isn't one of those things: my text editor is *always* 80
> characters wide.)

Yeah, I run 100x40 minumum and never had a problem with terms not being
visible on screen. 24 lines of text? Sheesh, I'd be scrolling/searching
constantly.

If you can't stack 80x24 above/below, that may be a function of the font you
use.

-L