I have been working on article about how I wrote Lua code to generate C code to help wrapping object-oriented C (glib-style) and exposing it to Lua, however I have realized that as neat as this sounds, it is terribly difficult to maintain. So let’s pretend it never happened.
type in a terminal window: aptitude install xfonts-terminus xfont-terminus
restart X
Open ~/.Xdefaults, and make it read exactly like this:
Rxvt.font: -xos4-terminus-bold-r-*-*-*-120-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1 Rxvt.color0: #000000 Rxvt.color1: #A80000 Rxvt.color2: #00A800 Rxvt.color3: Orange3 Rxvt.color4: #000078 Rxvt.color5: #A800A8 Rxvt.color6: #00A8A8 Rxvt.color7: #A8A8A8 Rxvt.color8: #646464 Rxvt.color9: #FF0054 Rxvt.color10: #00FF54 Rxvt.color11: #FFFF54 Rxvt.color12: #0000FF Rxvt.color13: #FF00FF Rxvt.color14: #00FFFF Rxvt.color15: #FFFFFF Rxvt.foreground: #A8A8A8 Rxvt.background: #000000 Rxvt.cursorColor: #A8A8A8 Rxvt.reverseVideo: false Rxvt.geometry: 80x25 Rxvt.scrollBar: false Rxvt.meta8: false Rxvt.modifier: mod1
type in a terminal window: xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
It seems the server I keep at my parent’s house, odin, is having disk corruption. I shut it down yesterday, and sometime today or tomorrow I should attempt data rescue. I don’t think anything would be lost even if the disk is totally trashed, but it’s the principal of the thing…
This effects the cosine sine server, since it ran on odin.
Alright, after much deliberation, I have decided that I don’t want to write my own blog engine right now.
So, for the time being I will use wordpress. Even if it is slow.
I have been using dwm for months now.
Actually, I’ve been maintaining a fork of it, with patches that I like and such.
Being a lurker in #haskell I have
been aware of the development of xmonad, which
is a dwm-like window manager written in haskell. I tried xmonad a few months
ago, and it was okay. It was missing some features of dwm that I thought I
needed, like tags. I continued using dwm.
XMonad development has continued on, with many contributed extensions being
added (including novel layout algorithms), and as of yesterday I decided to take
the plunge and start using it.
So far, it requires a lot less changes to the config file to behave the way I
want.
(Footnote: In fact, I first heard about dwm from Don Stewart, who is also one of
the hackers behind xmonad.)
Chani brought to my attention today that I.. no longer
have my GPG keypair. That is, good ol’ FB5312C2, which
I’ve had since 2005, is dead. Luckily it expired…
I seem to have
quite a few expired gpg keys.
Actually, except for 2006, I have
made a new GPG key every year since 2001. This is not so good.
I have created a new GPG key pair (712EBBE1)
which I hope is the last key I create for a while. Its fingerprint
is 412C CCE9 DDA2 4FE9 C34F 754B 0863 0EA6 712E BBE1.
It’s been signed by at least Chani, and I’ll work on getting
some meatspace people to sign it too.
Last night was leap-ahead night in the US, thanks to Congress
changing when DST accures. Almost all my computer-based clocks
updated properly, except for my handspring visor. The poor old
thing is incapable of such updates, since all its programming is in
ROM.
I will have to set its clock forward manually, and later set it
back manually. As it thinks DST should happen in about three weeks.
Fun stuff.
So, we’ve been redecorating since the flood, and things are
looking nice around here. We’ve got a lamp in the bedroom/computer
room!
The bad news is my desktop machine, Loki, decided to die.
It’s the power supply, which toasted the motherboard. RAM, video
card, and most importantly SATA harddrive should be okay.
Today was a remarkably productive. Resuming the work I started
last night on my remind2pda script, I figured out why it was
crashing my handspring visor. Apparently it doesn’t you can’t have
repeating entries with a frequency of 0! Oops.
The second problem was not my fault, but the documentation of
Palm::Datebook. The perldoc states:
The number of the week on which the event occurs. 0 means the
first week of the month, 1 means the second week of the month, and
so forth. A value of 5 means that the event occurs on the last week
of the month
However, that is a lie! A value of 4 means the last week of the
month, and a value of 5 causes a strange bug that makes all events
appear on the 00th day of the next month.
I also got tired of parsing devtodo’s XML files, so I rewrote
devtodo in perl, and using YAML to store todo lists in. More on
this later.
Spoony and I tried to get cables to sync our phones using
bitpim I was
able to find a cable for my phone (a nokia 2810i or something), but
not for spoony’s LG VX3400. However, the phone cable I got doesn’t
seem to be acting like a proper USB device.