Caps lock -> Scroll Lock
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I like to move caps lock to the scroll lock key, its far away and in my case next to the caps lock LED. I'm looking at a gateway keyboard and the LEDs are in the wrong order, weird. I use the win keys to control things in my window manager like switching desktops or moving windows.
One of the nicest things I found about linux on laptops it you can hotswap pcmcia cards. I could never get this to work on Win95, 98 or NT, hard enough trying to get a card to work _once_ let alone after a reboot, and don't dare remove it. I think I gave up, and I never use windows anyway, now when you insert a card it will either lock up or tell you to reboot. I could even just about get away hot swapping the CD-ROM and floppy drive, which share a bay. (it ofcourse tells you this is not possible in the manual)
I'm on a J-1 from the UK, and in a 'training' position. I get paid crap for the skills I have, I'm the most technical person in the company, I'm the only one who really knows how to run the servers (the company hosts web sites). I'm a bloody good programmer even if I say so myself, in perl, Java, PHP and a Linux/Solaris expert, 3 years of exp and a really good degree. My training consists of finding something new and cool and learning it by myself because I don't want to bill more than 20% of my time as I'm not about to get a raise. I get $30k, in Washington DC.
Anyway, I've been trying to get a new job, I've interviewed at big and small companies and most of them seemed really interested in hiring me, but then said they couldn't because of visas. Ok the H-1 cap was a problem, but when that wasn't an issue the most common excuse was that they couldn't wait 2 months, which is bollocks because afaik none of them employed anyone else. The next one was they didn't want to pay all the money for lawyers and fees.
I'm really not seeing this so-called mass shortage of high techies. Ok so there are bunches of cruddy jobs for VB, ASP and NT point and click people, but I find it incredibly difficult to find a decent unixy-programmy-webby job, in DC/Virginia which will sponsor my H-1.
Wouldn't the colours go all funky if you tilt your head by 90 degrees? I know mono LCDs invert if you rotate or flip the polarizer, so I'd imagine a colour one would be interesting.
I'd be more worried about ejecting cd-roms or zip disks right where it hurts. Definitely not something to combine with a competition of how far you can get a disk to fly out of the machine.
I didn't see this mentioned here, but swap space is used up before the machine fills up the physical memory. This is useful so you have a couple of megs free to run a new program, instead of having to wait to swap crap out first. You can tune this by echoing 3 numbers to/proc/sys/vm/freepages. I can't remember where the documentation for this is, but it specifies the limits of when to start swapping and when there's so much memory free it can move it back out of swap even if its not yet been requested. I like to set these numbers big to force swapping out sleeping processes and leave plenty free RAM to speed up starting netscape or emacs, whatever.
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I like to move caps lock to the scroll lock key, its far away and in my case next to the caps lock LED. I'm looking at a gateway keyboard and the LEDs are in the wrong order, weird.
I use the win keys to control things in my window manager like switching desktops or moving windows.
in the modmap: add Lock = Scroll_Lock
One of the nicest things I found about linux on laptops it you can hotswap pcmcia cards. I could never get this to work on Win95, 98 or NT, hard enough trying to get a card to work _once_ let alone after a reboot, and don't dare remove it.
I think I gave up, and I never use windows anyway, now when you insert a card it will either lock up or tell you to reboot.
I could even just about get away hot swapping the CD-ROM and floppy drive, which share a bay. (it ofcourse tells you this is not possible in the manual)
I'm on a J-1 from the UK, and in a 'training' position. I get paid crap for the skills I have, I'm the most technical person in the company, I'm the only one who really knows how to run the servers (the company hosts web sites). I'm a bloody good programmer even if I say so myself, in perl, Java, PHP and a Linux/Solaris expert, 3 years of exp and a really good degree. My training consists of finding something new and cool and learning it by myself because I don't want to bill more than 20% of my time as I'm not about to get a raise. I get $30k, in Washington DC.
Anyway, I've been trying to get a new job, I've interviewed at big and small companies and most of them seemed really interested in hiring me, but then said they couldn't because of visas. Ok the H-1 cap was a problem, but when that wasn't an issue the most common excuse was that they couldn't wait 2 months, which is bollocks because afaik none of them employed anyone else. The next one was they didn't want to pay all the money for lawyers and fees.
I'm really not seeing this so-called mass shortage of high techies. Ok so there are bunches of cruddy jobs for VB, ASP and NT point and click people, but I find it incredibly difficult to find a decent unixy-programmy-webby job, in DC/Virginia which will sponsor my H-1.
Paul.
Wouldn't the colours go all funky if you tilt your head by 90 degrees? I know mono LCDs invert if you rotate or flip the polarizer, so I'd imagine a colour one would be interesting.
I'd be more worried about ejecting cd-roms or zip disks right where it hurts.
Definitely not something to combine with a competition of how far you can get a disk to fly out of the machine.
I didn't see this mentioned here, but swap space is used up before the machine fills up the physical memory. This is useful so you have a couple of megs free to run a new program, instead of having to wait to swap crap out first. /proc/sys/vm/freepages. I can't remember where the documentation for this is, but it specifies the limits of when to start swapping and when there's so much memory free it can move it back out of swap even if its not yet been requested.
You can tune this by echoing 3 numbers to
I like to set these numbers big to force swapping out sleeping processes and leave plenty free RAM to speed up starting netscape or emacs, whatever.