29 Apr 2003 freetype   » (Master)

Life

Lucie turned 2 months and she's beginning to be real fine at last. March has been real hell, but we could remove her gastric tube last week. Seeing her drinking from the bottle like any normal baby is a great joy. And she started sleeping whole nights, which makes our life much more enjoyable :-)

Work

Oh joy, my rusty Ultra-5 has been replaced by a shiny new Linux PC. Everything feels much faster, the keyboard doesn't suck, NFS is twice more responsive, the shell utilities are not broken (e.g. "patch" and "diff"), and I could get rid of CDE for Gnome 2 (which cannot be used on Solaris without installing system-level patches). This makes a real difference.

I have also discovered Synergy, a very cool little program to share a keyboard and mouse between two computers, independent of their OS. I'm really impressed by it, its automatic cut-and-paste management already saved me many hours, and it allows me to use my mouse wheel on both machines, even if one of them only has a "normal" mouse. If you're using several machines on the same desk, you should really consider this. And it's GPL !

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