Christmas holidays
Well it’s the time of year to disappear “up North” to see the family for a week. It’s certainly a little colder in Cheshire, but it’s a price worth paying!
Train was only half full on the way up, shame it was delayed by a good 20-30mins – taking the time for the bus and the safety margin I left myself (for the bus and the train) it took quite some time to arrive. OTOH it’s a relaxing journey and marginally cheaper than travelling by car.
I’ve just spent a couple of days sorting out the mess of my old laptop, moving directories around and importing everything into [http://git.or.cz git]. Mostly done now, I’ve removed a lot of duplicates and old cruft lying around.
Not done much actual _tweaking_, thought I’m giving google reader a go (it was either that or setup tinytinyrss). Also finally looked up how to disable the darn touchpad on the laptop (I use the trackpoint and I keep accidentally brushing the touchpad). Short answer:
* apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
* edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
#Driver "mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
# now use syncontrol or qsynaptics
#Option "SHMConfig"
Option "TouchpadOff" "1"
Posted: December 24th, 2007 under Life, Linux.
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