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Thu, 09 Oct 2003
Thu Oct 9 22:37:01 2003 Changed to ".blog"
Switched blosxom to look for .blog files, and added
(auto-execute "\\.blog$" 'html-mode)
to my .emacs, so adding blog entries automatically pops up emacs in
html mode.
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xstartwin.bat -clipboard didn't work
Still can't cut&paste between X and windows.
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Thu Oct 9 18:06:06 2003 Need to mess with story.html
I think I'd like to fix this so that the posting time appears bf in
the title, as I've been doing by hand.
Then we can delete the posted-at stuff.
Just manually switched emacs to html mode, which seems to work ok.
Maybe I can avoid futzing with the directory structure...
posted at: 18:08 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Got Blosxom sort-of configured
Put in a decent head.html, so now this sucker looks like a
real blog.
I'll still need to reorganize the directories and set up the cron
jobs, etc.
posted at: 18:00 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 17:26:10 2003 Switched to Blosxom
I'm now generating this as a _real_ blog, using Blosxom (www.blosxom.com). They said "blogging in 20 minutes or your money back", and they were right.
Of course this looks pretty vanilla; I'll have to find some nicer themes so it will look prettier.
Also making blosxom look for .txt files is a bad idea, because then
I'm typing in text mode. A better plan is to put the articles in html
mode, and then put the blog in a directory separate from the articles.
posted at: 17:59 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 16:50:53 2003 My plan for organizing program libraries.
I'm keeping all the real stuff in D:\Program Files\ ; this will keep
Windows installers happy and not use up my Unix quota.
At the same time, I'm keeping a directory ~/windows/Program Files/ . This will contain a directory per download; each directory will contain the web site from which the application was downloaded + a shortcut to the corresponding directory over in D: . That way in case of disaster I'll have a record of what was installed.
Of course this means that utilities I rely on, like Firebird, will be
available only from this machine, and not from the lab should ever
need to get at them from there. Bummer. Is there any better
approach?
posted at: 17:24 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 16:48:06 2003 Can't Load Java plugin
Firebird loads just fine, but can't load Java plugin (boo-hoo!):
insufficient privilege. Imported my Mozilla bookmarks just fine,
though.
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Thu Oct 9 11:56:24 2003 Urgent: How to cut & paste w/ emacs (or even xterm)??
I can't seem to get the clipboard integration to work. I can cut &
paste just fine between X apps, but not between X and windows. Maybe
we really need to set -clipboard??
posted at: 17:22 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 11:36:14 2003 Dealing with ssh identities
Tried importing keypairs into SSH using Settings > User Keys > Import I imported all the .pub keys from ~/.ssh and ~/.ssh2, on some got "error reading file" on import, but they looked ok when I opened them in notepad.
Tried using them, got: "Failed to read your public key file C:\Docs&Settings\wand\Application Data\SSH\UserKeys\whatever.pub"
Tried generating a keypair, called it wand-dell2 w/ empty passphrase, then uploading it to ~wand/.ssh2/authorization . That didn't seem to work.
Deleting id_dsa and id_rsa, which it complained about.
I can't seem to figure out how it works in SecureCRT. I wonder if
using putty will help?
posted at: 17:22 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 11:11:13 2003 ssh keyboard settings
ssh Keyboard settings from my laptop: Backspace sends Delete, Audio
Bell, Alt send escape, Preserve Alt-Gr [also: Jump Scroll,
Scroll-to-clear-screen, Scroll-to-bottom-on output,
scroll-to-bottom-on keypress]
Setting BS sends Delete and Alt sends Escape in SSH seems to do the trick. Maybe this should be in the default?
Still need to set up ssh identity, hopefully in a way that doesn't
screw up my identity on the VanDyke client at home and on my laptop.
posted at: 17:21 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Thu Oct 9 07:36:37 2003
Question: Is there some way to see my D: drive from Unix? Ans: Colin
says no, which is pretty much as it should be.
posted at: 17:20 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Wed Oct 8 19:23:29 2003
Need to set keyboard properties in SSH Secure. Don't know how to do
this for the ssh inside cygwin.
posted at: 17:20 | path: | permanent link to this entry
OK, at Colin's suggestion I'm keeping this as a blog
Just logged out and logged in again for the first time. Took forever
to save my settings, but not too long to reload them.
Logged in again, X server started up just fine. Saying ssh -X alnilam
got the nasty message about bad protections, responding to passphrase
with CR got request for password, which it accepted nicely.
I'd like to make an icon to start up ssh -X alnilam automatically.
SSH Secure Shell does not want to tunnel X connections. Solution:
after changing settings to tunnel X connections, had to hit "save
settings" on the file menu.
As of tomorrow I will try running on the Dell as my primary screen
using X to run clients on alnilam.
posted at: 17:18 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Wed Oct 8 16:19:27 2003 Various things
Cygwin actually does have an emacs, but it starts up in the xterm
window instead of under the X server. The emacs doesn't seem to work
well from the cygwin bash window.
But the emacs doesn't know about vm
Can't start up shell from inside emacs-- conflict w/ rational.
Can I flush rational from my path? If so, how?
Trying to run things under emacs shows interesting things. For
example, it shows my /cygdrive/z/.ssh/id_dsa as protected 644.
Can't find Ctl-H = help in emacs, ctl-h and backspace both send
backspace. This is usually an option in ssh.
posted at: 17:16 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Wed Oct 8 14:44:25 2003 Can I see my unix files from ipsec?
Can I now get to my unix files as a Network
place under Nomad? \\ccis-windows\net ???
posted at: 17:15 | path: | permanent link to this entry
Wed Oct 8 15:19:35 2003 How to set up identities?
How can I set up an identity so ssh doesn't ask for my password every time?
posted at: 17:14 | path: | permanent link to this entry
