beer planet

Tonight, we dine, in de_dust!

Updated: March 19th, 2008

I don't know about you but I've had a lot of problems making screen work nicely with YaST. Both putty and SecureCRT had major problems displaying YaST's ncurses interface. The screenshots below depict the problem quite clearly. If at this point you don't see anything like this, you are most likely not affected and can go get a beer.

If you are seeing similar problems, here's the fix. After digging around a bit, I have discovered that the problem was incorrect data encoding. My character set was set to KOI8-R while ncurses expected UTF-8. Here is how to change the corresponding setting in putty:

… and SecureCRT:

Now restart YaST and voila:

P.S. You may be wondering why my screen (the GNU one) has a handy footer bar and how to configure it. Not to worry, I will be posting more info on it soon.

Updated: November 5th, 2007

This space is reserved for sucking up to Mozilla.

Firefox rocks, yeah!!

http://www.getfirefox.com

Updated: April 29th, 2008

For all the Intel folks out there (shout out to the Folsom Intel, Prairie City Road, woo woo). It is especially funny because it's so true. Dedicated to Nathan Foster and Thaya.

Updated: November 11th, 2007

The aww factor is through the roof.