I Love X

I just wanted to note that X11, for its age, is amazing. X11 + SSH with X Forwarding + VMWare Fusion + OS X for the win. Saves me from having to run a full GUI inside the virtual machine.

(Of course, it wouldn't be necessary if FreeBSD shipped with links, lynx, or wget. I understand that there's licensing issues, and that it comes with package management and curl.)

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Some Time to Work...

Hopefully I'll have some time to get some things done this weekend, now that I don't have to worry about getting the apartment cleaned up, things sold, and paying for school.

Started getting things set up on my Mac for the project. So far I've got FreeBSD installed in a VMWare machine, Python 2.5 installed (because the MacPort of 2.6 doesn't want to, for whatever reason). Downloaded PCS and started getting it set up, although I've run into a snag getting it to find Pyrex properly. Read more...