utx00

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1. 151.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   1. take typing brakes (xwrits, workrave) 2. exercise -- specially try to make your shoulders, forearms, and fingers stronger (in that order) 3. stretch -- yoga can help, take a class 4. get in better shape (run, bike, elliptical, ...) 5. do
2. 152.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   what's being explored? is c++ better than arc for this "exploring" ... it has more libraries ;) i wonder why people are not writing more apps in arc. there seems to be a lot of activity porting it to different environemnts, writing compiler
3. 153.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   i guess ... but that sounds silly to me. i guess i shouldn't lurk here anymore.
4. 154.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   .. and one needs the aggravation because? with all the easy pickings (that pay well) out there. i say take advantage that 80% of people don't know anything, and take it easy. 8 hr works days, and i'm at the lake.
5. 155.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   why do you think the time is ripe?
6. 156.▲
   by utx00 18y ago

   you're putting waaaay too much weight on this silly idea of startup success. seriously man, put things in perspective. what exactly were you expecting to get? life comes with its own sets of problems regardless of where you are. if you have
7. 157.▲
   by utx00 19y ago

   this guy said it better than i ever could: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html hint: look for blub programmer.
8. 158.▲
   by utx00 19y ago

   i just read up to here (2nd parapraph): "The theory is that by learning a new language you "expand your mind" and become "a better programmer". Right. By that kind of argument we should all be eating LSD (don't)." this sounds very much like
9. 159.▲
   by utx00 19y ago

   listen to the expert on the high horse. dear me. stick to computers amichail. your love for a quarter of a century.
10. 160.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    no. i just found that whilst looking for ucontrol. should have made that clearer.
11. 161.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    what i meant is a dedicated key that when pressed will trigger a page-up/page-down event. on the mac you have to press a modifier key to make it go. most of the time this is ok (and i don't really mind it whilst in emacs ctrl-v/meta-v are b
12. 162.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    i mean, exchange the behaviour of the caps lock key with that of the control key. ucontrol, and fkeys let you do that. both seem to be unmaitained though.
13. 163.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    here's one example that drove me up the wall: == swapping ctrl/caps lock == * on osx * http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~jfieber/osx/ -- i believe i ended up using ucontrol. * on ubuntu * go to System/Settings/Keyboard Preferences (xmodmap is
14. 164.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    good one :)
15. 165.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    is this too old to still be considered valid? http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=1798
16. 166.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    unless your using gentoo, you no longer have to do that much "sysadmin crap". as if OSX machines were free of "sysadmin crap". i used to use acquamacs on it, and it will constantly break after the monthly updates. from my experience, ubu
17. 167.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    don't drink the cool aid and save your money. the last straw for me was a bsd socket problem that used to cause crashes on clisp (if you google it you'll find it. circa 2005) -- went back to debian, and i don't even know whatever became of
18. 168.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    well there you go. although i don't know how much fun anyone can have recompiling kernels ;) cheers.
19. 169.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    1. fair enough. i can see how that could be a deal breaker. You probably know about the sad state of affairs with those vendors, and I guess reasons don't matter much if it doesn't work. all i can say is that it is improving. 2. it's not
20. 170.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    incidentally, if anyone is interested i found this script to turn all my files from elmx into mbox (and eventually maildir). well written. works like a charm. http://www.jwz.org/hacks/emlx.pl
21. 171.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    I code. I had the exact same experience. This is two years ago and things might have improved. But the ports system did not have that much software, I didn't like the feel of the keyboard, it's a huge heat sink (and then in cold NY morning
22. 172.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    Have you tried the latest Ubuntu?
23. 173.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    Good for you. I started out on a T20 (I'm old). Still have it. Still love it. One of these days I'll move up to a T60 or whatever. For now, T42 still kicks a$$.
24. 174.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    you don't mind not having page-up/page-down keys?
25. 175.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    You're not missing out on anything, there are no significant advantages (specially not over a t61) I sold my powerbook on ebay, and I'm still happy with my t42 running gutsy as well.
26. 176.▲
    by utx00 19y ago

    i don't know about extremely happy but i love using fogbugz ... and emacs