I tend to be a bit lasy regarding data backup, a problem which recently bit me when I accidently deleted some API documents I have been developing. Ironically I was in the process of starting to put them into cvs for both versioning and backup. Part of the reason I haven't been doing this regularly is that I tend to move and rename files and directories as I restructure things. Anyone who has used cvs knows that it does not handle that at all. I've been following a cvs replacemnt called subversion for a while and it does handle those situations. I'm not currently using though since it has not reached v1 yet and they are planning some changes to the repository. Once it hits v1 I'll probably switch over to it.

Why are locales so complicated in linux? Since xhtml defaults to utf8 encoding and python is also heading that way I decided to see if gvim supported utf8. It does. It also mentioned utf8 locale support in both the terminal and X, so I decided to see what locales my system supports. It turns out that glibc stores locales in both /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale. The first one stores the actuall locale stuff and has a bunch of utf8 entries. The other apparently stores the message translations for various apps. Then there is the locale data for X, it gets stored in /usr/lib/X11/locale and /usr/X11R6/share/locale or at least those are the ones I've found. They appear to serve the same functions as the two from glibc. What's making things difficult is that glibc has en_US and en_US.utf8 while X has en_US.UTF-8. Of course both have locale.alias files so...

I just read a note in locale.dir that the utf8 locales may not be working yet in X. Oh well I guess I can play with that some other time.

Hard to beleive its been so long since I last posted. Ah well, I've completed my move to a new server. Geocities will no longer be accepting FTP access to there free accounts. Besides, I was tired of the adds. I'm actually keeping some of my pages there mostly because I won't be updating them that much. The really important stuff, however, will be at my ISP's server.

Lets see, anything else of note.... I want a GeForce4 Ti card, been thinking about water-cooling my system to make it quieter, still haven't burned anything with my new burner yet other than that nothing.