I spent the past hour fiddling with Konsole, trying to get it to honor my Bash prompt in the title bar (using the usual ESC char tricks you can find anywhere). Finally found it: In the Profile settings, under Tabs, change the tab tiles to %w (or pick "Window title set by Shell" from the drop-down Insert list to the right).
There is a feature of OpenSSH, enabled by default, that causes the ssh daemon to do a name lookup for the client and confirm that it matches its IP address. This is supposed to check against some sort of IP spoof during SSH login attacks. However on my local network which lacks a DNS, it results in lengthy delays during logins.
I like the "focus follows mouse" window-focussing model from X11, because
However MS-Windows follows the old-fashioned, Macintosh/Smalltalk style of having users click on a window to focus it for the keyboard. How do you make MS-Windows behave more like X11?
Decisions at work provided inspiration on the train to work this morning....
Sung to Casino
With apologies to Philadelphia Grand Jury
Aaarrggh Gonna support AGIMO Tomorrow night Gonna support AGIMO And make it right What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? Gonna support AGIMO Tomorrow night Gonna support AGIMO Watch out they bite What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? Then it hits me ... Management lunacy Then it hits me ... CMMI Level 3 Then it hits me ... No-one knows ...... but me! Gonna support AGIMO Tomorrow night Gonna support AGIMO It's fight-or-flight go-go-go-go-go AGIMO to-to-to tomorrow night! go-go-go-go-go AGIMO to-to-to tomorrow night! What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? What could possibly go wrong? Then it hits me ... Eight weeks of "warranty" Then it hits me ... Developers want to flee Then it hits me ... No-one cares ...... not me! ah-huh ok oh-no, uh-uh, no-no, won't go oh no, uh-oh what the? What's the hurry? We got no money They don't care honey, so don't you worry What's the hurry? We got no money They don't care honey, so don't you worry What's the hurry? We got no money They don't care honey, so don't you worry What's the hurry? We got no money They don't care honey, so don't you worry Say what? Gonna to support AGIMO
This is the original version from the 1980s/1990s. It's difficult to find it online today, and definitely not, the hack-job that Homer butchered on The Simpsons...
Dos Equis, a Mexican beer
Ray, the man I buy it from
Me, a guy, I buy beer for
Far, a long way to the bar
So, I think I'll have a beer
La, lalalalalala!
Tea?
No thanks, I'll have a beer
And that brings us back to....
The NetBeans online help describes the steps for registering a local DTD or XML file with NetBeans' DTDs and XML Schemas Manager. It's succinct and to the point, but for the slow people in the room it's a bit confusing. So here's my tip for registering a local DTD file with NetBeans so that you can use NetBeans' awesome XML validation and completion features.
My work's notebook (Windows XP) is running Xming as it's X11 server, and it travels between work, home and on the train.
My work office has a docking station and a rotating second display. Typically if I start Xming with this display plugged in, Xming will adjust it's screen size to use both displays, but if I start it without the screen plugged in, it'll size to just the notebook screen. If I later add the 2nd screen (by docking the notebook), Xming won't use it without a restart. Also if I rotate the screen, only the top 1200 pixels will be used by Xming.
The solution is to specify a screen size to begin with that is as wide and tall as both of the screens. On my docked notebook the two displays are the notebook's display (1920x1200 pixels) and 2nd display (1600x1200 pixels, which rotates to 1200x1600). So that means the combined screen width is 3520 pixels, and the tallest screen hight is 1600 pixels. Specify this to Xming when it starts:
path\to\xming.exe :0 -clipboard -multiwindow -screen 0 3520x1600
Now I can add/remove/rotate the second screen and still use all of it without restarting Xming.
Asus just unveiled their prototype Eee keyboard at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It looks so much like my first ever computer (an Amstrad CPC 6128). Check it out:
One use-case we have at work for Xming is to be the X11 server on a Windows RDP terminal server. For security reasons (don't ask!) we can only access certain Unix hosts via an RDP session from our desktops, not directly over the campus LAN. So, we installed Xming on the TS and it works well. Except if two or more people wish to use it at once. Then it's first come, first served.
I recently upgraded my Cygwin install and noticed that Cygwin has switched it's X server XWin.exe from the XFree86 codebase to the Xorg codebase. Besides an updated logo, it also has some other side-effects.