Sunday, March 11. 2007
Interesting Weekend...
| To put it mildly, the later part of the previous week, work-wise has been extremely grueling. In between on-call work and getting ready for DST (in which Sun Java so kindly dropped the ball by announcing on Friday that they had screwed up their Java DST patch release), it has pretty much been a non-stop work (with catnaps in between) from Thursday to Sunday. Thankfully, the DST changeover seemed to go pretty smooth in the end (which was nice to see, given all of the hard work that was put in getting machines and applications patched  ).So, to make up for the horrendous past couple of days, I decided that I needed something to lift my spirits. After making many trips to the Apple store and returning home empty-handed, thanks partially to my niece who was with me ("What are you waiting for? You deserve it!") and tireless prompting of a few co-workers :-), I finally decided to take the plunge and plop down for a 17" MacBook Pro. I am still in the process of trying to get it configured the way that I want, as well as get all of my needed applications loaded (had to work again, so not much time to spend with the new toy), especially to run the KDE environment side-by-side with the Mac OSX environment (it looks like Fink will do most of what I want). Of course, in the process of trying X11 configured to work the way that I want, I came across some nice tweaks for the regular Terminal application as well: namely to have the focus follow the mouse (just for the Terminal application): just type the following string in a Terminal window (note: this only works in Tiger - 10.4.x): defaults write com.apple.Terminal FocusFollowsMouse -string YES. Note: For the curious (or the disinterested), I have just completed my first work maintenance window on my Mac (using just the Terminal window, which was bearable w/ the additional tweak of letting the focus follow the mouse). |  |
