Wait a minute!
May 10th, 2008 Filed Under Tools
You can use a toolbar in Xmonad, pretty much like the tool found in dwm…
I was busy configuring other things and I have been using Xmonad without a toolbar, no clock, no time, just me and the computer. I feel free! I realized that my eyes try to see the dwm toolbar, looking for windows open in the workspaces. That is a waste of energy, as that information should be in my mind.
I also changed dmenu so that it now appears in the middle of the string, you can do that with:
, ((modMask, xK_p ), spawn “exe=`dmenu_path | dmenu -p ‘>’ -i -y 450 -fn ‘-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-*-*’ ` && eval \”exec $exe\”")
the number following -y should be the height of your screen divided by 2.
I’ve been thinking:
If I have X layout with lots of windows, I want to access each window directly, by number (just like ion).
Tags in Dwm and Xmonad are a way of achieving this, by trying to keep the least amount of windows, you can jump directly to them by workspace. In laptops or small displays this is the only way to go.
The conclusion is that I don’t need all the fancy layouts of Xmonad because anyway I won’t use them. In emacs is the same, I rarely have more than 2 windows.
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Configuring xmonad
May 9th, 2008 Filed Under Tools
Ok so I spent a while configuring Xmonad. As someone else said, it is like a framework for building your own keyboard based window manager. I really like how you can apply transformations to layouts, for example:
myLayout = noBorders Grid
Here I am applying the noBorders transform that will remove window borders on the Grid layout.
It is powerful and exciting, but configuring packages for haskell is hard and contrary to what is written in the website, building Xmonad from source requires downloading lots of dependencies. They are working on an automatic installer a la CPAN (for perl) but it is not ready yet. I tried to install it, and it asked lots of dependencies! 
The cool thing is that it provides layouts per workspace and LOTS of customizations. But I can’t use it easily in ubuntu < 8.04 …
つまり, en resumen,
General, cool but very hard to port! I will check awesome and then decide if I will stay with it or DWM…
As soon as the Haskell guys polish their CPAN, Xmonad will be very easy to install.
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My precious….
May 4th, 2008 Filed Under Thoughts
I am writing from my new precious, a thinkpad T61. The keyboard is perfect and the processor speed is pretty good. I just have to reload my settings and run my customization scripts for ubuntu so that I can have the environment I always use!
Here it is:
my… own…
it’s mine…
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I have a game for you
April 15th, 2008 Filed Under Game for you(tm)
1) Look at this picture:
2) Guess when it was built and where.
3) Click here to see the answer.
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OB on 8
April 10th, 2008 Filed Under OBSearch
I am running OB on a 8GB linux box! This is the first time in my life my programs run with more than 4GB. Sensei came with a technician, he took the dimms from his suitcase and put them in the server. He didn’t even check them. Yay!
Hopefully they will behave.
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City Office Housing & Other things.
April 8th, 2008 Filed Under Japan
Today we had a meeting with Muroya-san, the person from city office that is in charge of our housing. We have to pay about $30 per month! As I am sharing the house with Gilberto, I only have to pay $15. Gilberto was elected president of the International student’s association.
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Dreamhost is back
April 8th, 2008 Filed Under OBSearch
Now the file server seems to be fine and Dreamhost is running fast. I hope it won’t happen again!
I am looking for some test data and a distance function to test the data. I would like to match vectors but I can’t find a decent data set. I might need to synthesize the data.
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心
April 7th, 2008 Filed Under Thoughts
女の人の心は複雑。本当に。
自分の心も
どんどん分かるようになりたい。
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Executing OBSearch with TED
April 7th, 2008 Filed Under OBSearch
In the next few days, I am going to run OBSearch with the tree edit distance function defined by Tai in the 70s. The fastest algorithm available is O(n^3). In sequential mode last time I ran it, it took 3 days to answer 1000 queries. With the new pivot selection strategies I added, I am hoping to reduce considerably this time. I will post the results when I complete the tests.
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Dreamhost downtime
April 7th, 2008 Filed Under Uncategorized
Dreamhost was having issues for the past 11 days. I could not use my subversion repository and wordpress was very slow. They had some issues with one cluster but now everything seems to be OK. The only reason I didn’t move was because I’ve got a lot of domains and it seems complicated to move to another place. They were open with the issue at least!
I would be happy if they offered me a 20GB account but without all these issues.
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