Elbert T. Or writes in telling me that Marcelle had been “gushing
about” OnLove, of all things. Elbert is into comics. His sig says
that he’s a freelance writer and illustrator, loves his palm m515 and
palm keyboard, and has interests in history, literature, comics, and
pop culture. He also happens to be Marcelle‘s history classmate.
In a thread on debian-user@lists.debian.org about disabling the
annoying “Download Flash Plugin?” prompt, Karsten M. Self links to
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS, which not
only gets rid of all plugins but also “fixes a number of other web
annoyances.”
Apparently, i-manila doesn’t take -k very well. fetchmail kept
fetching old mail again and again and again… Ooops, my bad. That’s
it; I’m flushing.
You can also delete libnullplugin.so in the mozilla plugins directory.
On the debian-user@lists.debian.org mailing list, Jerome Acks
Jr. thinks that http://trace.wisc.edu/linux/index.htm is about the
best Linux accessibility resource.
Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list
# For daily Gnus snapshots deb http://people.debian.org/~srivasta ./packages/
Source: EmacsWiki:GnusCvsForDebian
On the open-source-now-list@redhat.com, Dan Kegel links to his
essay on the industry’s need for graduates with Linux/OSS experience,
and how universities can address that. The draft can be found at
http://www.kegel.com/linux/edu/curriculum.html .
The 2003.03.18 edition of Freshmeat news lists dvorakng, a GPL Dvorak
typing tutor based on dvorak7min but with extra features.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dvorakng/
I wonder if there’s any way of getting dasher to work with the Sony
jogdial. That might be a nice input method I can use when I’ve got my
left thumb on the mouse buttons and my right thumb on the mouse or jog
dial…
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pointless/ is a text-source presentation
package that might be worth looking into, although it’s just on its
first public release.
Google:gnus+freshmeat leads me to nntp://news.freshmeat.net, an NNTP server
that provides Freshmeat news with the right subjects! Yay. I am
definitely going to use this instead of the mailed digests, which have
a nasty habit of piling up in my archives and are much less fun to
browse through than a newsgroup…
ACM TechNews links to
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030304/4914082s.htm, an article
about how small things are getting. Americans seem to not like the
idea of tiny devices, but I certainly do! I’m typing this now on a
Sony PCG-U1, which is among the smallest notebooks in the market. I’ve
adapted to its keyboard, and am starting to find the P1110 keyboard a
little too large. True, I’m still typing in QWERTY – have to do some
tests to see whether QWERTY actually suits this computer better than
Dvorak. I need both hands on the keyboard in order to type Dvorak – a
consequence of having done Proper Training – but can cheerfully
two-finger type QWERTY.
I’d love to have the ring-phone they described – “a receiver on one
finger, a speaker on another and a wireless transmitter on the belt.”
As long as I never lose it, of course, and as long as the rings are
_thin_. I don’t wear rings because my fingers are small, and most
rings tend to be fairly bulky. A bracelet, on the other hand – one
that doesn’t unclasp easily – or a watch… That’d be fun.
In a really old post on debian-user@lists.debian.org“>debian-user@lists.debian.org (Jan 27 2003),
Mark Zimmerman suggests the use of metapost to generate pretty finite
state automata in LaTeX. Peter Jenke suggests xypic, which Nori
Heikkinen likes.
The link for remote X terminals is
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html
On the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, Hans Larsen says that
session.el replaced recentf.el a long time ago. I used to use
recentf.el. Maybe I should check session.el out…
According to fsbot on freenode#emacs, , wheel is
- http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
- Put (mwheel-install) in .emacs
Useful Emacs documentation thing. See Info-goto-emacs-command-mode, normally bound to C-h F in CVS Emacs.
Jeffery B. Rancier’s March 12 post on help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org has
this useful LISP snippet for Windows Emacs users:
(defun jbr-w32-simulate-Alt-tap ()(interactive) (w32-send-sys-command 61696)) (global-set-key [C-tab] 'jbr-w32-simulate-Alt-tap)
I wonder if there’s a similar way to do that under GTK…
Le Wang mentions icomplete and mcomplete in reference to substring
completion in a March 4 post on the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing
list. Hmmmm. mcomplete doesn’t seem to be built-in, but icomplete’s
there, and it’s nifty. It’s like ido handling of buffers and files. I
like.
Charles Muller figured out how to add to the kana-kanji conversion dictionary – modify ja-dic.el and recompile.
In a March 6 post to the help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, Romain Francoise mentions
em-last.el, an eshell module that lets you cycle backwards through the argument list.
http://orebokech.com/tmp/em-last.el