21 Feb 2001 (updated 22 Feb 2001 at 01:29 UTC)
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Well, looks like the Matrox G400 hardware doesn't support
some nice things like Gamma correction on the second head.
I wonder if it's worth it to go out and get a G450.. I
suspect I'll go like this for a while. If it gets really
annoying, I'll consider it, but until then, I need to beef
up my cash reserves again.
Oh yeah, I should probably open another savings account
so
my money in checking doesn't just sit there collecting dust
but no interest.. Considering the recent downturn in
stocks, it might be worthwhile to invest sometime soon (on
the theory that what goes down must come up, which is not as
safe an assumption as the other way around).
For work, I'm digging around a bit to find out what to
do
about X11 connectivity to Windows desktops.. Looks like the
development versions of PuTTY
actually support X11 forwarding, so I'll be happy when the
next release rolls around. The users at work have been
running Reflection X, which is a little overpowered for what
they need to do. Users just want to connect, run their
program, see the fancy graphics pop up, fiddle around, and
quit. Reflection X seems to insist upon making a huge event
out of logging in. I much prefer the behavior of Exceed,
which you start up before connecting to a remote system.
It's also `transparent,' where you can still see the rest of
the desktop. There's also no need to run an extra window
manager -- it just puts X windows in Windows windows.
Provided the $DISPLAY variable is set right, you can just
run programs and have them pop up. I just wonder if it's a
decent price..
Later
Suddenly, I'm thinking like Q from Star Trek:TNG -- ``Just
change the gravitational constant of the universe!''
I've been playing around with GnuPG some more. I still
don't have a mail client that I like where I can use GPG,
but at work I've been using Pine, which has decent support.
Anyway, I'm wondering if the public will ever start using
crypto. GPG seems to work pretty well, even downloading new
keys (if they are available) on demand. Of course, they
need to have been uploaded to a keyserver first.. If
Mozilla could have support for GPG, that would help things
move along quite a bit.. Of course, it would be cool if
there was a GPG plugin or something for MS Outlook, but
that's almost a contradiction in terms...