Cory Doctorow writes on Boing Boing:

GLTerminal emulates a 1970’s terminal monitor, complete with flaws in brightness, warped display curvature, and flicker.

Dude, I ran into folks still using all sorts of Televideo, Altos and DEC terminals with displays that looked just like this, circa 1996. I think that saying “1970’s terminal monitor” is not entirely accurate… ;^)

Link to full post here.

On the heels of WordPress 2.0, 2.01 is out. 2.0 made a lot of backend and admin changes. 2.01 looks to be mostly bug fixes. Bloggeriffica!

For Christmas, I got one of these bad boys to fulfill my caffeinated cravings. Needless to say, I’m impressed. Here’s some of the highlights:

• built-in grinder

• programmable timer

• auto shutoff

• built-in water filter

• permanent coffee filter included

Also, all of the removable parts (grinder apparatus, coffee and water filter parts) are all dishwasher safe. The directions are clear and easy to follow to get things setup. If you like truely fresh coffee with minimal hassle, this unit is great. The only minor gripe that I have, is that the grinder makes a lot of noise, but it only runs for about 20 seconds.

On Cuisinart’s web site, it lists for $150, but I got mine from Bed Bath & Beyond for about $100. There’s also a stainless-steel model for $50 more.

Git yo java on!

Put this in your .vimrc:

:if has("terminfo")
: set t_Co=16
: set t_AB=Esc[%?%p1%{8}%< %t%p1%{40}%+%e%p1%{92}%+%;%dm
: set t_AF=Esc[%?%p1%{8}%< %t%p1%{30}%+%e%p1%{82}%+%;%dm
:else
: set t_Co=16
: set t_Sf=Esc[3%dm
: set t_Sb=Esc[4%dm
:endif

(Note: the Esc’s should be replaced with a real Esc (Ctrl-v Esc).)

This should give you sixteen-color support if you are using an xterm (or a derivative, like rxvt, konsole, etc.) that supports color (the standard xterm in AIX 5.3 does not appear to support color). At least it did for me in the 30 seconds I took to test it. You can also change TERM:

TERM=xterm-color (only supports eight colors)
or
TERM=xterm-16color

If you make these changes to TERM though, you will most likely run into problems with other tools (like man and telnet) that won’t know about this terminal type, unless you update the terminfo database. The .vimrc code is courtesy of the excellent help in vim.

After digging a bit, I found this. I was looking to download a Firefox 1.5 rpm for Fedora that was not RC3, but 1.5 “final”. All that I was able to find was RC3 rpms. Seems to me that this type of info should be put on the main Firefox Release Notes page. So I guess it looks as if I install an RC3 rpm, I’m good.