August 2005 Archives
.. or at least as good as any other excuse. A couple years back, after being without the motorcycle for some time, I said that by the time I was 35, I'd have something with either two seats or two wheels. The opportunity came up to do both! My crazy beloved wife approved of the idea of a convertible when we rented one in Hawaii. Whoops! :-)
This particular Honda S2000 is "Pearlescent Yellow", and matches my ST1300 motorcycle's color (except for the pearl part). In case you're wondering, no, yellow is not really my favorite color - except on the road. I'd rather be accused of being too visible, than invisible. The downside to such a noticable color, of course, is I have to keep an eye on my speed, since every cop on the road will be too..
For the sportbike riders out there.. You know how when you get to the upper portion of the RPM's on your bike? The power on this car kicks in at 6000 RPM .. and launches. Below 6000, and the driving is merely sporting. After 6000, hang on!
The bad news: Apple's X11.app has serious z-order (window ordering) problems going from any app back to X11.app. The only way to get X11.app's windows back to the foreground is to click the dock icon twice (and I mean, not double click!).
The good news: XDarwin builds from fink "unstable"; and my problem with meta-V not being passed, can be worked around with Apple's new ability to remap hotkeys for existing application functions.
Damn you Apple. Mr Jobs: Please "innovate" some QA, please? Before someone accuses me of Apple bashing?
Okay, so, some of us, actually use terminals. Those ascii thing that don't come with a web browser or a gui or a personal assistent to hold your [deleted] while you try and wee.
Nasty suprise today: Apple's default computer name, is ass-sanely big, containing my full name and the model name of the computer. My dlink router (DI-624), apparently, has no bounds checking - even on the latest firmware. Plug in computer (or turn on wireless) and the router would suddenly reboot...
Anyone else having problems, try shortening your computer name (mac: System Preferences -> Sharing).
Okay, after some amount of beating and flogging, I have got Tiger and X11.app and xterm all playing nicely.
(Updated for fvwm note)
