Cussedness
The natural cussedness of things in general.
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Xtightvncviewer and keyboard focus
This may only apply to xtightvncviewer in Ubuntu Edgy, but it was an annoying enough problem that I want to make a note of it. Xtightvncviewer doesn’t capture keyboard input properly with it’s default settings, meaning that you can’t type anything on remote computers, and you can’t access the F8 menu to quit or manage the VNC session. If you’re in full screen mode you have to terminate the process manually from a VT, which is hardly elegant. Happily, there’s an easy way to get round this problem.
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Windows Mobile 5 WPA Key Input
I just acquired a new smartphone, with all the bells and whistles, including WiFi capablility, and upon trying to connect to my office network I discovered a particularly stupid piece of GUI design: it is impossible to paste a network key into the wireless key input box. You are forced to type it in manually. If, like me, you have a stupidly long and meaningless 63 character key for security and paranoia purposes, this is rather a pain. In combination with the fact that the input is completely replaced by asterisks it’s borderline impossible. After about four attempts to input my key manually, I gave up and formulated an alternative solution.
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Sign up now!
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Map of the internet
Ooh, look: a rather lovely map of the internet, using IP blocks and a clever wavy pattern to keep things comprehensible. xkcd.com is pretty good nerd humour, here’s a selection of other funny strips. I like that last one. Perhaps I’ll try to refer to the web as the “Intertubes” from now on. It has a ring to it.
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12″ MacBook Pro Rumour
If this rumour is true, I might actually switch. I’ve been coveting OS X for a while, and I’m a sucker for dinky laptops; a 12″ version with a decent spec would probably swing it for me.
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Whoops
This WTF makes me feel much better about the time I accidentally typed ‘rm -rf *’ in the live directory of kittenwar.com and deleted the entire site.
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Ubuntu
Last week I installed the latest release of Ubuntu Linux (nicknamed “Edgy Eft”, don’t ask) on my dinky laptop and I have to say I’m really rather impressed.
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printf(”Hello world\n”);
I’ve just started teaching myself C, from “K & R“. So far I’ve finished the first chapter and managed to make more-or-less operational solutions to most of the exercises.
All of the programming I do is in C-based languages, so I’ve not really learned that much yet apart from a couple of GCC options, some standard library functions, and the concept of char arrays. It’s pleasing to see where it all comes from though.
At the moment I’m slightly worried about my chances of actually learning C properly, because I don’t really have any projects or ideas that require me to know it. All my previous programming knowledge has been acquired because of a need to use the language in question. K & R isn’t a long book though, and I’m confident that I’ll get to the end without too much trouble. Even if I don’t come up with any ideas I’m sure I’ll learn useful lessons from the experience.
(Incidentally, this was the default Wordpress installation test post, which is usually entitled “Hello, world!” in honour of the first program in K & R, hence the subject matter.)