Dryice Liu’s Blog

the many ".serverauth.####" files in home directory

Where the “####” here means some digital. I’ve seen lots of these and delete them from time to time. And today I found this blog entry that explains why.
That blog is about running X on some Linux distros and unfortunately it happens on FreeBSD too.
So I took the solution the auth offerd. However, as both […]

¶ Posted 05 December 2006 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

Upgrade my box

Last weekend my box got an upgrade as a birthday gift from my wife. The new hardwares include a Athlon 3000+, a ASAU A8N5X motherboard, and a Gitabyte 7300GS display card. Of cause I choosed the hardware
After replacing the old CY 1.7 CPU and motherboard, there comes a problem: the old power supply […]

¶ Posted 25 April 2006 § misc ‡ Comments (0)

Let Emacs handle mailto:

Well Firefox is a web browser only and it doesn’t come with a mail client, so it will call the system default mailer to handle “mailto:” links.
It is hard to say how to define the system default mailer. It’s different according to your OS: On windows they use registry, in the Unix world it depends […]

¶ Posted 14 April 2006 § firefox ‡ Comments (0)

win key and menu key

I can use xev to see what key I just pressed. Also the Emacs
C-h k runs the command describe-key
which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `help’.
It is bound to C-h k, <f1> k, <help> k, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key>, <menu-bar> <help-menu> <describe> <describe-key-1>.
(describe-key key &optional untranslated up-event)
Display documentation of the function invoked by key.
key […]