Thu Dec 17 07:59:15 EST 2015

Went to bed a little after ten, and woke up around seven. Slept well, apart from waking up for half an hour around five.

High of forty-one and scattered flurries.

Goals:

    Work:
    - Work on remote worker stuff
      No. I'm not going to have time to make real progress on this until the new year.
    - Manager meeting
      Done.
    - Rent increased for LT and HV
      Postponed until January 1.
    - Review invoices
      Done.

The parts for the new firewall arrived after my morning meeting. I built it before lunch. Nice.

Thirty minute walk at lunch. A few seagulls and a couple of pigeons. Gray sky.

Installed pfSense in the afternoon.

    Home:
    - ipfw notes
    - Think about reorganizing my dotfiles (per machine?), maybe using GNU stow
      A bit.
      Per platform and per machine.
      Use stow for deployment.
      Think about using includes where possible for minor variations between machines.
    - Go to bed a little early

Took another walk after work. Twenty minutes. I like how the tall trees wave in the wind.

Questions:

    - Now, on Debian testing, after I initially log into X, xclock doesn't get the settings in .Xdefaults until I manually run `xrdb .Xdefaults`. Why?
      https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1338460#p1338460
      Looks like .Xdefaults might be deprecated, and not loaded by default.
      Still, other things seem to respect its settings. Odd.
      Added to .xsession:
        # Load .Xdefaults
        xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults

Interesting:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles
    Occasionally, software may keep plain-text passwords in configuration files, as opposed to hooking into a keyring. In these cases, git clean-filters may be handy to avoid accidentally commiting confidential information. E. g., the following .gitattributes file assigns a filter to the file “some-dotfile”:

        # .gitattributes
        some-dotfile filter=remove-pass

    Whenever the file “some-dotfile” is checked into git, git will invoke the filter “remove-pass” on the file before checking it in. The filter must be defined in .git/config, e. g.:

        [filter "remove-pass"]
        clean = "sed -e 's/^password=.*/#password=TODO/'"