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I know Nathan will have us up by 6:15am but I’ve drank a lot of cola and can’t sleep.

Here’s to 2006, let it be a happy and healthy new year.

I ran across a reference to Drew McDermott on comp.lang.lisp, read his (thoughtful) screeds:

• Format Considered Ugly
• NIL Considered Harmful

and his and his colleagues solutions collected in YTools.

Must make some time to explore this.

From the RTFM department, GNU Screen can be used like tip or cu. The manual reads:

Screen has built in some functionality of “cu” and “telnet”.

and

If a tty (character special device) name (e.g. “/dev/ttya”) is specified as the first parameter, then the window is directly connected to this device.

So doing the following on my FreeBSD desktop

screen /dev/cuaa0

neatly connects to the first serial port with a usable terminal emulator. Which came in handy today when one of my hosts panicked.

The family gathered to bury my grandmother today.

Rest in peace, “Heidi”.

Created an author account for Maria. Now she can contribute articles to the blog.