what more needs be said?

def leppard:
   pass

sucky internet connectivity

My phone line's developed a line noise problem. It's hard to get online; most times when I do get online, my connection slows to a crawl within 5-10 minutes, and then I'm downloading at like 100 bytes/sec. If that. My cell provider recently started their GPRS service, and they offer unlimited usage for a flat fee. I've used that a lot in the last couple of weeks, but their service isn't very reliable. It's slower than dialup on average, I sometimes get disconnected randomly, I can't use the phone while using GPRS, and they have a very small number of ports open (telnet, smtp, dns, http, pop, https, and irc), which makes it inconvenient, Still, I can use it for hours on end. No one offers good residential broadband in my area. One place offers a 256kb/s DSL link for like $15/mo, but they have have extremely low traffic caps.

carbon xemacs on mac os x

The version of Carbon Emacs I have lets me select text and paste it into other windows, but doesn't let me paste stuff into it. Very annoying. I also prefer XEmacs, and it's a good thing someone has a patch for building a Carbon XEmacs. Here's how I built it:

• using the instructions on this page, build zlib, libpng, and libjpeg. they'll install into /usr/local.
• grab xemacs-21.5.20.tar.gz, and the sumo/mule-sumo packages from the distribution site
• grab the carbon patch from its site
• do tar xzf xemacs-21.5.20.tar.gz bzip2 -dc xemacs-21.5.20-carbon-b2.diff.bz2 | patch -p1 cd xemacs-21.5.20/carbon
• edit build-app.sh and change the configure line to ./configure --with-carbon --with-mule --without-ldap --prefix=${carbondir}/XEmacs.app/Contents/Resources --error-checking=none --site-libraries=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib --site-includes=/usr/include:/usr/local/include --with-png --with-jpeg
• execute build-app.sh
• cd into XEmacs.app/Contents/Resources/lib/xemacs and unpack the sumo packages here.
• copy XEmacs.app into your /Applications directory.

rem - up - walk unafraid

but somewhere there I lost my way everyone walks the same expecting me to step the narrow path they've laid they claim to walk unafraid I'll be clumsy instead hold my love me or leave me high.