I'm happy it uses Twisted, but can somebody with the appropriate language skills (.cn chinese) tell me what the heck this is?

So these terminal programs suck, right? They get basic configuration options wrong, they crash a lot. I need a higher availability terminal.

Well, the underlying widget seems to work OK so long as you don't drive it too hard, so, I wrote my own "terminal" by just trivially invoking libvte from Python.

So here it is, HATE, the High Availability Terminal Emulator.

Blah blah, no warranty - if you use this my agents will hunt you down and kill you.

Enjoy.

I have recently installed Ubuntu Breezy. It's pretty awesome.

However, I have a problem. All the terminals on pretty much all modern Linux systems (Ubuntu, Debian, FC3/4, etc) are either broken or impossible to configure. I assumed that these issues would be fixed in the new distro, but they seem to be getting worse - I guess terminals are falling out of vogue.

xterm displays "ÿ" when I hit M-backspace, which should be "delete previous word". This is a keystroke I use a lot. It also corrupts the terminal by improperly interpreting a multibyte sequence as a single character for forward movement rather than backward movement.

gnome-terminal - crashes all the god damn time, for no reason I can discern. screws up Epic pretty regularly.

xterminal - this one is my favorite. It screws up my backspace key when I run screen locally. Emacs thinks I'm typing C-@, zsh and bash don't delete a character.

rxvt - least buggy of the bunch, and it looks like what I'll be using, but ... Xt-style scrollbars? no antialiased fonts? no interactive font selection? customization through X resources? Seriously.

Hey, maybe they could figure out a way to make me care about how many stop bits I'm using, that'd be so retro!

I would really like to have some backups of my home network.

I am currently concerned with this set of machines:

legion: My personal desktop. Running Ubuntu Breezy / Windows XP Pro. 150G linux partition, 150G windows.

kazekage: My old desktop, an ad-hoc "media center" PC that's hooked up to the TV; also serves as experimental / shared server / guest computer. 100G linux partition. Hoary right now, probably upgraded to Breezy soon. 60G XP partition that will hardly ever be used.

atuin: One of these things. Technically it runs some kind of linux, but it's a hermetically sealed box as far as I'm concerned. It's a 1T disk over SMB (samba, but no CIFS/UNIX extensions).

zelda: Print server. MacOS X (Jaguar). Runs VNC; headless. 40G HFS+ drive.

trogdor: laptop. dual boot Ubuntu Breezy / XP home. 60G linux partition, 20G windows.

There are a few other machines which may or may not be interesting to back up comprising about 200G more, all in linux.

The medium I will be backing up to is DVD-Rs, which I can get at $0.08/G - that would make the full price of one backup (with all disks full) $153.19.

I am looking for a backup system that will allow me to make this sort of backup with easy, selective restoration. Ideal would be a system where each individual DVD would contain an ISO filesystem with the actual files being backed up stored directly there, and some kind of directory-tree based index where I could make labels that would allow me to find a file. If anything in my TB drive blows, I am not going to want to buy a new one with the same capacity and then spend 6 days swapping DVDs trying to find the one file I need.

I don't mind if it's proprietary software, as long as it's reasonably priced, but I despair of finding anything that isn't open-source, since this amount of data sounds like an "enterprise" problem, and I am definitely not going to pay "enterprise" prices to back up my MP3s.

Not only is it a release announcement, it is quite possibly the most detailed and complete description of Q2Q availble anywhere publicly.