Model M
Care and feeding of the IBM Model M keyboard.
This has become quite a popular page so I've decided to write more about the
M. I've acquired a keyboard from an old manual IBM typewriter, and the
keys fit a Model M chassis perfectly — look out for a Model M conversion as
soon as I've gotten another Model M suitable for hacking to bits converting
beautifully.
gkrellm2
I'm packaging recent releases of gkrellm2 for Mandrake 9.0. Remember to check your sha1sums.
Note: Mandriva 2008 is the latest-and-greatest. However, I've kept my Mandrake 9.0 installation (virtualised) and will still provide RPMs of gkrellm2 for that distro while there is demand. gkrellm2 rpms packaged for Mandrake 9.1 to 10.1 are available at Chip Cuccio's site. Great work as ever! Please note I'm not packaging gkrellm2 for any other Mandrake version, and Chip tells me he longer actively maintains RPMs for Mandrake.
Other bits
slrn newsreader
My .slrnrc (pretty html version and a few screenshots of slrn in action. My .muttrc is a disgusting mess and hasn't yet made it onto the Web. If you like annoying yourself with X-Faces you can use slrnface to display them in slrn, you are welcome to my slrnface RPM, built for Mandrake 9.0.
Generating a signature for slrn which includes the currently playing song title from xmms / beep media player.
Comic Sans MS, the fugly font
It's the font everyone loves to hate. I'd love to know why so many
people insist on using it for things it's clearly not suitable for. You
can share in this madness thanks to my new project: The
Comic Sans Hall of Shame. Unmissable Comic Sans abuse!
Misc
PGP public key. I use GnuPG which is a free software replacement for PGP based on OpenPGP. Setting up GnuPG can be a bit "interesting", but there are articles at DesktopLinux, ip-wars.net, and I've mirrored the GnuPG guide from MandrakeSecure (original page dead) which hand-hold you through the command-line setup and make it very easy. Or use KDE's Kgpg: it could not be easier. Client side, I use the Mutt email client which handles GnuPG well.
Note I prefer encrypted email. A neat trick for importing keys:
$ lynx -source http://www.preater.com/key.asc |gpg --import
