Wed Dec 16 07:54:53 EST 2015 Went to sleep after midnight and woke up at seven. Fifty-one and cloudy today, with a thirty percent chance of rain. Work: Goals: - Test cable modem at Central Done. - Work on remote access Done. - Update WN units Done. Fifteen-minute walk at lunch. Cloudy but not raining. I felt comfortably warm, having put the lining back in my jacket. Home: - Work on ipfw, and firm up ipfw NAT understanding Turned on ipfw on blinky with basic rules - Work on custom vim colors Done. - Shop at Target Done. - Fix weather Done. cat weather.txt | sed -n '/Temperature/p;/Sky/p;/Humidity/p' Corrected cron job to: 30 * * * * curl -s http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/KVLL.TXT > ~/.weathercurl And .zshrc line: cat ~/.weathercurl | sed -n '/Temperature/p;/Sky/p;/Humidity/p' | cowsay -n - Go to bed not late Hm. There is a Debian hints fortune file, like the one on FreeBSD. % sudo apt-get install fortunes-debian-hints % fortune debian-hints However, there don't seem to be very many hints in the file. Oh, well. I think I need to look at GNU Stow again. Or just start using sym links to my dotfiles repo. How is stow better than just symlinks? Ah, I guess you don't need to remember to manually create the symlinks with stow. Questions: - Why don't I get notified of new mail when I open a terminal (Debian)? Not sure. zshoptions(1) for MAIL_WARNING looked promising, but does nothing. This works: echo "q" | mail | sed -n "2p" | awk '{ s = ""; for (i = 2; i <= NF; i++) s = s $i " "; print s }' - What involved in writing my own vim colorization file? http://alvinalexander.com/linux/vi-vim-editor-color-scheme-syntax http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Create_a_color_scheme_based_on_another Not too much. Probably worth it for me to play with. Show existing with `:highlight`. Three sets of types for each setting: term, cterm, and gui. Each type can be styled: term|cterm|gui=bold|undercurl|underline|reverse|standout cterm and gui can be colored for fg and bg: ctermfg|ctermbg|guifg|guibg=Yellow For gui, colors can be X11 color names or hex colors (#ffa0a0). For cterm, colors are numeric: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Xterm256_color_names_for_console_Vim We can store our color scheme file in ~/.vim/colors/ Colors can also be overridden in ~/.vimrc The default color schemes are located in /usr/share/vim/vim74/colors - WTF is with the Raspberry Pi not detecting the correct monitor mode? It's been a long time since I've seen X fail to autoconfig. Ah... Apparently it's in CEA mode by default, to be hooked up to a tv. Edit `/boot/config.txt`: # Set monitor mode to DMT hdmi_group=2 and reboot.