Re: Apple Terminal

2006-07-31 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Peter da Silva wrote: >> * If you have a UK Mac keyboard (on which Shift-3 is _, and # is found on >> Option-3), and you sanely set "Use option key as meta key" > > [insert years of hate over the program that leads people to consider this > sane] > > The keyboard remapping tools (or, rathe

Re: Apple Terminal

2006-07-31 Thread Aaron Crane
Peter da Silva writes: > > * If [...] you sanely set "Use option key as meta key" > > [insert years of hate over the program that leads people to consider this > sane] If you like typing two keys when there's a perfectly good modifier available, that's your choice. > > The lack of a working term

Re: Apple Terminal

2006-07-31 Thread Peter da Silva
> * If you have a UK Mac keyboard (on which Shift-3 is _, and # is found on > Option-3), and you sanely set "Use option key as meta key" [insert years of hate over the program that leads people to consider this sane] The keyboard remapping tools (or, rather, the lack of them) is a hateful f

Re: Apple Terminal

2006-07-31 Thread Aaron Crane
Nicholas Clark writes: WTF? Why is the hateful thing doing some sort of word wrapping whenever the line has a non-ASCII character? Why can't I disable it? Other things to hate about Apple Terminal: * It has a Preferences dialog which, following the HIGs, can be found by hitting Command-;.

Apple Terminal

2006-07-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
I have the terminal set on ISO-8859-1. If I force it to 70 characters I see the following: $ perl -le 'print "e1 " x 25' e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e1 e 1 e1 $ perl -le 'print "\xe91 " x 25' é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é1 é

Re: NFS

2006-07-31 Thread Peter da Silva
> I warned you. Drop your NFS block size to 512 bytes or 1k. Or do NFS > over TCP. Fragmentation, you're the one... you make networks, lots of fun... fragmentation just shouldn't happen to mee

Re: NFS

2006-07-31 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 31 Jul 2006, at 14:51, Nicholas Clark wrote: Soo, NFS mounting the dev server on a Macbook worked just fine in LA. I could load things, edit things, save things, and generally get work done. Yet once the Macbook returns to blighty (with the server still in LA) and the fucking thi

NFS

2006-07-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
Soo, NFS mounting the dev server on a Macbook worked just fine in LA. I could load things, edit things, save things, and generally get work done. Yet once the Macbook returns to blighty (with the server still in LA) and the fucking thing doesn't work. No, not in any nice honest refuse to moun