It’s been a few days now, and I have a bit more to add. This thing is fantastically loud. It also feels very nice to type on once you get used to it. There is also a slight effect of not being able to type on normal keyboards, but it’s not nearly as bad as […]
This always was a pain. The traditional way to do it was to write it in your ~/.Xdefaults as Emacs*font: [some XLFD font name or alias] So it turns out there’s a much easier way. In your .emacs, just say (set-default-font “somefont”) Where somefont can even be an alias. Its much easier, and you can […]
Finally got my smartboard today. Initial impressions are that it feels better than the Maxim, but is a little bit harder to use like the concave kinesis. The key layout is actually quite similar to that one, and requires you to hit the ‘c’ with the middle finger of your left hand. I had gotten […]
A trick for bringing sandwiches to work: Normally, if you buy a loaf of bread at the beginning of the week, peel off two pieces each day to make a sandwich, and otherwise just leave it sitting out, it’ll get moldy by the end of the week, wasting a good part of the loaf. Putting […]
What a mess. Unfortunately, the blame for this diplomatic conflict falls on both sides. It seems totally inappropriate to me, that a small prefecture in Japan usurp the voice of the nation and unilaterally declare a claim to the islands. In light of the increasing number of social exchanges between Japan and Korea, it seems […]
What does democracy really mean? And to what extent is it alive in Japan? To me it seems there are several aspects to democracy: – Freedom and diversity of ideas: In this regard, I would say Japan is as open and free as any other ‘democtratic’ nation. That isn’t to say that there aren’t taboos […]
Some disturbing information about the Japanese media. What’s really frustrating is that it seems as there are people in Japan who have the right attitude about things, but they often get quashed by the nationalists, and the rest of the people who follow them because they’re just uninformed and it feels good to be patriotic […]
Works mostly by the book. The only quirk is that it appears the installer thinks it has XFree86 3.x, and changes the symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/X to the XF86_Vmware server. One needs to make it point back to the xorg server by doing: % cd /usr/X11R6/bin % rm X % ln -s Xorg X And then to […]
To delete all evolution settings: rm -r ~/.evolution rm ~/.gnome2_private/Evolution gconftool-2 –recursive-unset /apps/evolution Evolution stores all the account information in the gconf registry, but the cache stuff in .evolution.
Theres a slashdot story about an academic saying the record companies should charge 5 cents a song online instead of the current 99 cents. That the demand is elastic enough that they would be the ones to benefit. Simple supply and demand, and you can argue all day about whether demand is that elastic, but […]