Reminds me of Jerry Pournelle's Monk's Cell that he uses for serious writing productivity.
Productivity tips for the easily distracted
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Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted
#32Can you believe this guy? He switched from a model-m-clone keyboard to something that looks like logitech. Sacrilege!
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#33Can you believe this guy? He switched from a model-m-clone keyboard to something that looks like logitech. Sacrilege!
That's an SGI keyboard on the desk, I couldn't plug it in to the laptop in the caravan but an adapter has been ordered and should be here tomorrow or so.
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#34How does he get his monitors to go vertical like that? Is there some rotation software (for Linux)?
On ubuntu it is under monitors (might be a gnome thing) and you just select right or left under rotation. I'm sure kde has something similar, but one thing to be aware of is that some monitors are specifically designed to be viewed horizontally so fonts and other things may render weird when rotated.
One thing to keep in mind is to disable sub-pixel rendering of fonts, or at least change the layout from RGB to VRGB. Otherwise, the fonts might have color outlines due to wrong assumptions about the sub-pixel layout made by the renderer.
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#35Can you believe this guy? He switched from a model-m-clone keyboard to something that looks like logitech. Sacrilege!
That's an SGI keyboard on the desk, I couldn't plug it in to the laptop in the caravan but an adapter has been ordered and should be here tomorrow or so.
... and balance is restored.
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#36Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted
#37Like a lot of us, he "suffers" from NADD (Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder)
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#38Oh, man, chess clock. Brilliant. I just dug out mine and put a new battery in it last month when when the gf challenged me (and she isn't going to do that again -- she hates to lose!)
In my experience, things like productivity and diet are easy to change in the short term, but long-term change depends on monitoring and sustained effort. The chess clock is a dead-simple monitoring device, and I'm already habituated to it thanks to many hours spent on chess in high school and college.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's correct, I moved back in 2005.
I thought you quit commenting on HN ;)
He only comes back to correct outrageous mis-statements that could potentially damage someone's reputation or hard work - I guess accusing him of being Canadian counts as one of the above ;-)
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#40Hopefully, you did this outside of work hours...