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Comment: Re:Scroll lock! (Score 1) 939

by brilinux on Friday October 02 2009, @01:06PM (#29619433) Attached to: The Most Useless Key On My Keyboard Is...

Another nice thing about the FreeBSD console is that you can set your caps lock key to be control, which is useful if the caps lock key on your keyboard (like my laptop at work) is next to the A key, where the control key belongs. I have not figured out how to do this on Linux (except in X).

Comment: Re:Infrared? (Score 1) 136

by brilinux on Monday February 09 2009, @03:59PM (#26789691) Attached to: The Herschel Telescope Close To Blast Off

If it's in infrared, then it's NOT a Hubble replacement, it's a Spitzer replacement.

Isn't that David Paterson?

Comment: Re:The Extension To Common Lisp With Persistence (Score 1) 553

by brilinux on Friday February 06 2009, @06:36PM (#26759523) Attached to: Phantom OS, the 21st Century OS?

Yeah, old Lisp Machines were what popped into my head when I read the headline - it would be interesting to see a more modern OS with a lisp core and an advanced CLOS-like interface to everything.

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