Pete's Log: habits and rain
Entry #573, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
Man, talk about old habits. Used to be I used the XkbOption "ctrl:swapcaps" to make my pc keyboards behave like sun keyboards. Well, turned out I never really used caps lock, so I now use "ctrl:nocaps" to make both ctrl and caps lock act like control keys. But back in the old days, vmware would ignore the remapping, and so you had to use the real control key to hit the control-alt-escape necessary to get vmware to release focus. But that would result in X thinking you'd turned on caps lock. So now with "ctrl:nocaps" I no longer have this problem, but I still out of habit hit the left control key after switching out of vmware, since I think caps lock will be on. And I've not really used vmware in many months. But it's such a subtle thing, it took me a while to realize why I was hitting the control key.
Maximum file descriptors per process in linux: 1024.
It's really wet outside. I might need to bike home soon. I need to figure out if I want to play soccer tonight. It'd be fun, probably, to play soccer in the rain, but it'd also be really wet and cold. And I'd have to bike home to pick up my cleats. Ah, the decisions I face.