@b0rk My problem is getting the damn colours to go away! I find they often make text unreadable, eg dark blue on black. Once upon a time termcap/$TERM could be used to fix things, but Linux programmers have thoroughly broken that.
@oclsc@b0rk I am mystified by what kind of brain-dead programmer ever thought that the default setting should be dark-blue text on a black background, yet that is what you get in Ubuntu.