drewp for 2006 May

[link] (1) 2006-05-15T23:17:27 SHDH 9:

I just barely made it to this one. For the short time I was there, I tried to configure the impossible polypaudio. It's harder than sendmail!

Pictured here: http://flickr.com/photos/elea/137670654/

http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/

[link] 2006-05-20T14:21:52 new projector bulb for $12:

My 1024x768 VGA projector, besides costing under $300 to start with, takes $12 replacement bulbs! (or $8 for the non-long-life one)

Bulbster delivered in about 2 days. http://bulbster.com/zcart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=312&zenid=acde6be331ee2516f5154e3ffb0d5476

The long-life bulbs are rated with 'average life' of 100h. Since my computer turns my projector on and off, I should be able to track my exact failure times.

[link] 2006-05-22T09:41:51 dmacro for emacs:

install http://www.pitecan.com/DynamicMacro/dmacro.el

add this to .emacs:

  (autoload 'dmacro-exec "dmacro" nil t) 
  (defconst *dmacro-key* "\C-t" "repeat") 
  (global-set-key *dmacro-key* 'dmacro-exec)

Now you perform some sequence of commands two times, and press C-t to keep repeating it.

Also, check out follow-mode, which ties multiple windows in the same frame (which you probably make with C-x 3) so that the second window always shows the lines that come after the visible lines in the first window, etc. I might have named it newspaper-columns-mode. Now I can easily see an 300-line program on one screen.

And if you like columns, don't miss the experimental support in firefox, for example here or here (messier).

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