Pete's Log: god help me
Entry #576, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
today is defeating me. enough so that I've switched from my zen background of some planet rising above some alien landscape to my very immature background of sailor jupiter wearing a very short skirt. We'll see if that improves things any. I also seem to be lacking in music with enough anger. So Blink 182 is the best I could do.
So debian (unstable/woody) recently updated itself to include xfree 4.0. Cool enough. That upgrade was fairly painless, other than having to reset it to use caps as another control key. But today I discovered that alt no longer registers as meta. Which makes my life as an emacs user miserable. escape is too freaking far away. Something needs to be done. So while messing with xmodmap I somehow managed to remap my 'b' key to be another 'c' key which majorly sucked, since I couldn't switch it back. Not like I ever use the letter 'b' anyway... So I figure easy way to switch back is restart X. Well I guess vmware wanted to do me a favor, since it crashed X while I was shutting it down, saving me the time of manually closing all those other programs nicely and restarting by hand. Blah. There's got to be an easy way to make meta work right again. But for now I think I'll try to decipher the notes I took during class on ideas to improve p4. And drink some caffeine. And ignore the outside world a while. At least in my own world I'm a little less small.