I lived with it for ages. I tried to fix it on my own, by selecting different emulation types. Finally I Googled for it. And pretty much instantly found the answer:
python `python -c "import pimp; print pimp.__file__"` -i readline
Moral? If at first you don't succeed, Google. If …
I follow the Ubuntu Geek blog, and have found some very useful tips there. However, there's a problem with their latest tip, "Howto Check you (sic) external IP Address from the command line."
Some background: There's a very useful website located at whatismyip.com, which reports the IP you used …
I'm putting together a postinst (post installation) script for a Debian package I created for work. And there's a little C program in there that needs to run as root, but be called by a regular user.
Well, there's a standard way of doing that in Linux/Unix, called setuid …
I'll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12" iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I've been building up …
I'm focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I'm most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it's one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH'd …
The folks behind Subversion don't produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.
I found a different binary at Martin Ott's site. I have no …
So I've been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I'm pretty impressed. It's a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take …
So I just upgraded my office computer from a dual-processor G5 to a new "Quad-Proc" ((Of course, it's not REALLY quad-processor. It's two dual-core processors. But it's still really fricking cool.)) and I used Apple's Migration Assistant to move my files over. Pulled the hard drive from my old Mac …
(Noted as changes from default settings)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Shell --> Close Only if the Shell Exited Cleanly
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Display -->
Cursor Style: Block + Blink
+ Anti-Aliasing
Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular 14
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Color -->
Black on Light Yellow
Transparency (Half a stop from far left)
Terminal --> Window Settings --> Window …
I'm concerned about Apple's move from PowerPC chips to Intel chips for their processors.
Geekable says "The Apple-Intel announcement makes me feel very uneasy. My first problem with the whole affair is that Apple will now be considered a generic PC vendor." As far as I can say, who cares …