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Wed Aug 19 05:53:01 EDT 2015 Went to bed at nine and woke up at four. Slept well. Mid eighties and thunderstorms today. Took another forty-five minute walk this morning before sunrise. Saw another rabbit, a dragonfly, ducks, geese, and a couple of bats! Goals: Work: - Order IT laptop? - Work on HZ firewall - Configure last 48-port switch Nope. Gah. Today was a waste. Home: - Figure out a simple C project to work on (ncurses or a simple server?) https://viget.com/extend/game-programming-in-c-with-the-ncurses-library https://viget.com/extend/c-games-in-ncurses-using-multiple-windows $ sudo apt-get install ncurses-examples $ dpkg -S ncurses-examples ncurses-examples: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-examples/changelog.gz ncurses-examples: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-examples ncurses-examples: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-examples/changelog.Debian.gz ncurses-examples: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-examples/copyright ncurses-examples: /usr/share/doc/ncurses-examples/examples $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev Hmm. Look at http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/. It appears to abstract curses, so it's multiplatform and can also render with sdl. Also spent some time doing exercises in K&R to brush up on my C. - Set tmux key bindings to switch windows Done. M-F1...M-F9. Not totally happy with that. Questions: - Why the hell is Firefox so slow? Slow to render pages, slow to scroll pages, and generally laggy UI. NoScript seems to be the culprit. - How do I stop zsh from removing the trailing slash of directory names? setopt no_auto_remove_slash - How many rows could a VT100/VT220 display at once? 24 rows, 80 columns http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/chapter1.html#S1.2 The VT220 uses a monochrome monitor with the following features. 24 rows × 80/132 columns 7 × 10 dot matrix in a 10 × 10 cell for 80 columns 7 × 10 dot matrix in a 9 × 10 cell for 132 columns 800 (horizontal) × 240 (vertical) pixels (80 columns) 1188 (horizontal) × 240 (vertical) pixels (132 columns)

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