If you want to change the default minium word size in a MySQL FULLTEXT search.

Find / add the following to ‘my.cnf‘.

ft_min_word_len = 3

Then restart mysql.

Then do a repair on the tables which have FULLTEXT indexes.

A really useful application that I found whilst having a browse around Launchpad was Terminator. Its an application that allows you to divide the application window up into individual terminals handy if you need to watch logs, run batch processes whilst doing doing something else. To install just pop the following into a terminal…

sudo apt-get install terminator

Homepage: http://www.tenshu.net/terminator/