Attempting to install postgres via Darwin Ports forced me, for the first time to try to utilize variants. From what I understand, variants are somewhat like USE flags in Gentoo, but beyond that, I don’t know much.
The default postgres version in port is still 7, but postgresql8 is also in port, and currently is [...]
Slashdot has a way of blowing things out of the water, but as reported by them here, it looks like Apple may either be 0) taking extra long committing Intel-specific code into Darwin, 1) giving up on Free Software with respect to Darwin, or 2) on their way to closing more and more of the [...]
I’m starting a Macintosh and OSX category, since I now am, once again, the owner of a Mac (with the point of runnin OSX — I’ve used Linux on PowerPC for a long time). I figure I need a place to keep handy notes, so…there you go.
These are the most common options I use as a default terminal.
option
purpose
-rv
Reverse video — black->white, white->black;
changes the behavior of progams that care about dark and light terminals
-fade 75
When the terminal window looses focus, this setting fades to the paramenter’s percentage of brightness
-ls
Start the shell as a login shell
+sb
Turn off the scrollbar
-bc
Blink the cursor
-ip (or -tr)
Turn [...]
“rxvt-unicode” is a really nice terminal. You can increase loading speed and memory using, if you tend to use multiple terminals, by using the urxvtd daemon and the urxvtc client.
First, you need to launch urxvtd. This is as easy as adding a line like the following to your ~/.xinitrc:
urxvtd &
Once the daemon is [...]
I’m going to try to keep things I’ve learned about different command line apps here. I tend to move between more heavy desktop environments and lighter (and more interesting) window managers like ion3 or wmii.
This time, I’m going to actually keep notes of the different programs I use. This will include programs like rxvt-unicode, my [...]