Grrr
As usual, I get to the scene a bit late.. but today I finally installed Growl. Then I discovered an emacs lisp that uses growlnotify to allow any emacs app to notify growl The possibilities are endless..
Using the OSX input method with terminal emacs
Well, according to PC web, the only step I was missing (after all the stuff in the two previoius posts) was to turn off the “Escape non-ASCII sequences” option the Emulation section of Terminal.app’s “Window Settings’ dialog. Terminal.app has this clever feature, where if you start inserting Japanese into the terminal, it displays the pre-edit […]
A bit better
For some reason ubuntu had a really old version of wanderlust (2.10 series, which is more than two years old). I guess no one updated the debian repository until very recently, so when ubuntu 5.10 came out, it was already too late to get included. Thankfully, the ubuntu universe pool has a .deb for the […]
My ideal work setup (almost)
Nerd alert. You’ve been warned. So I’m back on emacs. I like emacs’ perforce integration better than I do vim’s. I’ve also set up “mew” to read my imap mail. It works reasonably well, but one annoying limitation is that it can’t view imap folders with spaces in them!? But I’ve gotten mew to work […]
Thunderbird for connecting to an Exchange server from a Mac
So after unsuccessfully lobbying our IT department to turn off Public Folders when the Exchange server is accessed through IMAP, I took the plunge and installed Thunderbird 1.5 for OS X. It actually works pretty well (which means: it doesn’t peg the CPU when updating imap folders, LDAP lookups work, even with substring searches, and […]
Safari slowdown with 10.4.4?
Has anyone noticed that Safari seems to be really slow now after the update? or rather, it gets stuck while loading pages.. a lot of the time, it seems to be stuck at loading the css file for a page, which means it can’t display the page at all. Clicking the stop button usually makes […]
Super hack-tastic
Whatever device I end up buying, it’d be nice if I could use Japanese on it. It’s not a hard requirement, but it would sure make things more interesting. Unfortunately, getting Japanese to work on an American or European device involves quite a bit of work, but there are people who manage to get it […]
Another twist
A friend at work who is a Nokia fan tells me of another possibility: buy un-subsidized phones. Apparently places like expansys sell European imports which are unlocked and I can just use with Cingular. This gives me the option of getting an N71 through a different route when it comes out, or getting the E70 […]
The drill down
Ok, the frontrunners are still the Treo, the 2125, and the Nokia 6682. By screen size: (1) Treo, with 320×320 (2) 2125 with 240×320 (3) Nokia with 176×208 By Mac sync – ability: (1) Treo and Nokia tie (2) 2125 because its Windows SM 5.0 By data plan expense: (1) Nokia and 2125 ($20/mo) (2) […]
You can never get exactly what you want: Phones
My Sony Ericsson T6xx whatever phone is totally dying. I liked it for about the first month, then I realized it totally sucked. Interface is slow, and reception is balls. Fast forward a year, now its physically starting to break, so its time to switch to Cingular and get a new phone. It seems like […]