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• IDSgrep 0.1
  I've just released the first packaged version of IDSgrep , which is an implementation of the ideas I posted last month about Ideographic Description Sequences . It's meant
• Distributed version control is not my favourite technology
  Not too long ago a free software project I'm peripherally involved in decided it was time to replace its old and not broken version control system with something new and b
• Ideographic Description Sequences: some thoughts
  I went through a bit of a crunch to get Tsukurimashou 0.5 out the door before my year-end vacation. With that done, and at least 99 kanji to do before the next planned rel
• Tsukurimashou 0.5
  I've released a new version of the Tsukurimashou fonts ( project home page ). This one contains 776 kanji, including all those taught in the Japanese school system through
• Building a build for something weird
  Here are some thoughts on the Tsukurimashou build system. You can find the code, and some documentation of how to use the build system, in the package , but this posting i
• Solved: Compose key doesn't work with SCIM, anthy, and Xorg
  Posting this for the benefit of people who may have the same problem, and for my own future reference if it happens to me again. The problem: Xorg (new name for XFree86) i
• Tsukurimashou 0.4
  I'm very happy to announce a new release of the Tsukurimashou font project, version 0.4. See files from this release on the Sourceforge releases page , and the summary for
• Security issue
  Folks, we had a break-in on this Web server. I think it's cleaned up now, but if you have created a "visitor" account (I think very few people have) it would be wise to ch
• Astrolabe announces change in business: was astrology, now copyright trolling
  The Unix time-zone database - necessary to the operation of Linux-based computers and many other systems around the world as well - has been withdrawn from distribution be
• MetaPost serial-number bug link target
  This entry summarizes the current status of the MetaPost serial-number bug. This bug is relevant to the Tsukurimashou project , and I need a consistent URL to link to in t
• A XeLaTeX flavour for LaTeX-make
  I like using Danjean and Legrand's latex-make package to handle automated compilation of my LaTeX documents. Unfortunately, there are several other packages with very simi
• Workaround for "bad default print settings in GTK+" bug
  Today, after years of suffering, I finally managed to find a workaround for one of the several problems I'd been having with printing from GTK+ applications, in particular
• Tsukurimashou 0.2
  This is the announcement of a now-obsolete version. Check out the latest progress of Tsukurimashou at sourceforge.jp ! 日本語のページ は読んで下さい。 I've just posted the
• Fixing Alpine's broken subject sort
  I use the Alpine email software, which is successor to Pine. I mostly like it, but its implementation of "sort by subject" is broken and annoying. It is documented that Al
• Tsukurimashou 0.1
  This is the announcement of a now-obsolete version. Check out the latest progress of Tsukurimashou at sourceforge.jp ! 日本語のページ は読んで下さい。 I'm pleased to annou
• New KDE, still broken
  I see that KDE put out a new release on Wednesday. I'm disappointed that they still haven't fixed bugs 158556 and 180051 . Bug 158556 is "Manual hiding of panel." In KDE 3
• Genjimon fonts
  These symbols are called Genjimon, sometimes hyphenated as Genji-mon: They are connected to Japanese culture (incense appreciation; The Tale of Genji ; and woodblock print
• The Terrible Secret of OpenType Glyph Substitution
  I was up until 3 this morning trying to figure out how to make OpenType glyph substitution work. That, in itself, is not news. Anyone who has tried to write substitution r
• Disabling Ctrl-Shift-Underscore font resize in Konsole
  Why is it that all my KDE-related postings seem to be about disabling annoying user interface misfeatures? Today's has to do with the Ctrl-Shift-Underscore (Ctrl-Shift-_)
• Typesetting astrology with LaTeX
  This entry gathers together information on using TeX and LaTeX for astrological documents, including both software I've released myself, and links to other resources. This
• News on the astrological front
  When I switched to the new computer I found that a lot of my trickier LaTeX code - including, for instance, the files I use to produce my Japanese-language flash cards - n
• Disabling search type changes in kiten
  The Japanese-English dictionary program "kiten" has an annoying misfeature whereby if you do a search that has no results, instead of saying there are no results it will a
• Disabling huge-ass panel tooltips in KDE4
  Big news! I've finally achieved one of my most-wanted misfeature fixes with KDE4: disabling the ugly huge-ass animated tooltips in the panel. I think a lot of others wante
• More on removing the desktop cashew in KDE4
  KDE4 introduced a stupid useless icon that you can't get rid of, in the upper right corner of the desktop. The developer of the relevant code has adamantly refused to intr
• For great justice
  I'm not planning to post further continuous updates on my move to the new computer, but at least one correspondent commented that she hadn't seen any further updates in a
• We get signal?
  So, here we are. It's 3:45pm on Wednesday, and I'm home again after a relatively brief trip to Waterloo. I wanted to be there this morning for a meet-n-greet meeting with
• Fixing the JED dealbreakers
  There are many things I like about the JED text editor, and for a number of years it has been my preferred editor for working on C code. However, it has a number of misfea
• Disabling the "same directory as current tab" brain damage of KDE's konsole terminal emulator
  So, you have a new laptop computer. You install the latest and greatest Slackware Linux on it, and it naturally comes with a newer version of KDE than what's on your deskt
• In the matter of the 465 Hz tone
  So, you've got an audio signal contaminated with a continuous tone at about 233 Hz, with a really strong second harmonic at 465 and some others throughout the audio spectr
• Dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century
  It became necessary for work-related reasons that I should attempt to install Skype on my home computer, so I made the attempt. It turned out to be remarkably easy. I boug
• Bonobo Conspiracy's Quick Guide to Where CUPS Stores Its Ready-Made Printer Configurations
  This is for my own future reference, since it was hard to find in the documentation and I'll probably need it again in the future. The things you can create that collect t
• PivotX annoyances
  I am typing this into a local installation of PivotX on my home machine. My plan is that if I can get it whipped into acceptable shape, I will upload this installation to

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