Another Word for Nerd

It looks like OneShare can finally do business in Texas!

I eventually want to pick up one share of Apple and one share of Sun.

I ordered a Sun Type 7 USB keyboard today to test out. We’ll see if it’s any better than my current favorite of a 15-year-old Apple Extended Keyboard II connected with an iMate ADB-to-USB adapter.

I also like the Mattias Tactile Pro, but it’s just too loud (very “clacky”, but not near as bad as an IBM Model M).

UPDATE: (5/06) SBCL now runs natively on Intel-based Macintosh systems.

I upgraded to a 20″ iMac Core Duo (from a 17″ iMac G5) on Thursday night.

I then found out that neither SBCL, CMUCL, nor OpenMCL will run under the “Rosetta” PowerPC emulation facility. I’ve got a half-assed compile of CLISP working, but it fails one of its tests because I’m unable to install GNU libsigsegv (doesn’t compile on OSX/Intel). Tried to bootstrap SBCL with CLISP, but no go. I can use CLISP to bootstrap ABCL, but it’s not exactly what I’m looking for.

Out of the commercial Lisp offerings, Lispworks Personal Edition hangs on startup. I’ve not tried Allegro CL yet, because the eval/free version of ACL v8 isn’t out yet…

I’ve noted my thoughts on the “Intel vs. G5 Boot Time Video” controversy (with links to the videos) over at MacHELP.

I finally got Brad Parker’s MIT CADR emulator up and running on my Mac under OS X. I had some SDL problems at first, but version 0.8 only required me to change one line in the Makefile and rebuild everything.

Now I just need a “taller” screen, as 1440×900 cuts off the bottom of the 768×1024 CADR window!

You think I’m sick?
You think I’m twisted?
You think I’m ill?

You’re right!

Here’s proof!

So far, so good. Yesterday I finally stopped trying to use vi navigation keys by default.

The only problem I’ve found so far - I can’t get either Aquamacs or Carbon Emacs to remember my window-size settings! I have to resize the window every time I launch the program.

Here’s a screenshot of my home setup.

I’m comfortable enough in Emacs now that I got rid of the lines for VIP (vi navigation keys emulation) out of my .emacs. This is a huge milestone for me, as for years the only thing I knew how to do in Emacs was exit (C-x C-c).

I’ve got SLIME working great with CMUCL and SBCL, both on my colocated Solaris system and on the G5 here at the house.

I just aliased “vi” to “emacs” in my .bashrc, and I’m going to try to leave it that way for at least a week. Wish me luck…

If the predicted new Mac mini with Intel CPU comes out in January, I’ll be replacing this iMac G5 (17″, 1.8Ghz) with one and a Dell 2005FPW widescreen LCD. Will make a nice small silent workstation.