| iris, and darwin tweaks |
[Jan. 12th, 2008|11:43 am] |
i think iris might be starting to talk. the words are few, and the pronunciation odd enough that i'm never really sure, but i think i've been hearing "fish", "kitty", "guido" (one of the cats), and "no" used in more-or-less appropriate situations. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rebbyribs is a bit more skeptical, but i'm sure iris will talk clearly and distinctly soon enough.
note: what follows is a discussion of scripts that modify your mac os x kernel. this is potentially very risky, as the kernel is what allows everything else to run. although i have made every attempt to ensure they are safe (and believe they are), i can't guarantee it or be held liable if things go wrong. in particular:
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR ANY OTHER CONTRIBUTOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
also, this morning's project was to get the mac os x/darwin console vt100 alternate character set support to work and (closely related) to customize the mac os x/darwin console color palette. the end result is a pair of shell scripts that seem to work, and a lot of scratching my head — why didn't they
ⓐ ship with the VT100 positions filled in their font, or
ⓑ provide a simpler interface for switching the font and color palette at runtime (using, say, escape sequences or a sysctl.) oh and
ⓒ why does their console strip the eighth bit off of all output (despite the font [based on a design by zestyping] supporting the first 256 unicode/ucs code points), and finally
ⓓ why don't the function keys work?
update: it's probably worth explaining a bit more here: ( background information on the mac os x/darwin console hacks )
update: it looks like joey hagedorn made a truetype version of the darwin console font! |
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