[1] | Which leads me to a grouse with the Advantage, pretty much my only grouse with the Advantage. The Advantage is highly programmable, which I generally don't use, but because you program it on-board it doesn't work well with the Mac keyboard preferences. Specifically switching off the caps-lock doesn't work and I have to remap the caps-lock key to something innocuous. |
[2] | In conjunction with Deja menu so I can access the main menu bar on any monitor with a middle mouse click. |
alias py32='arch-i386 python'
Should I use the AMD64 version of Python on an Intel 64 chip? I know those 64-bit implementations are very similar, but are they similar enough that your AMD64 will work on Intel?
AMD doesn't want us to use the term x86-64 anymore, but wants usto use AMD64 instead. I think we should comply - they invented thearchitecture, so they have the right to give it a name. NeitherMicrosoft nor Intel have such a right.
The most important thing I learned was don't sweat the small stuff. This warrants repeating. Don't sweat the small stuff. Many times I knew the gist of what I wanted to say in a passage but couldn't find the words. I would go round and round over a single sentence for fifteen minutes or more. This happened a lot. I learned to just write something and then come back to it later. Often what I had been unhappy about when writing read fine when I came back to it the next day. If I was really stuck I would just leave a placeholder (like XXXX or something easy to search for) and come back to it another time. Letting yourself get stuck drags out the writing process and makes it mentally exhausting. Far better to just write what you have and move on; you're going to be going back over it later anyway.
[1] | I had a great time playing with 68k assembly language on the Amiga. Building C structures and calling into the operating system. Both the Amiga OS and Motorola 68000 instruction sets were very elegant. It was Amiga OSes inability to support memory protection (and thus virtual memory) that was (and is) a big cause of its downfall. The latest release of the beautiful-looking-and-not-quite-dead-yet Amiga OS 4.1 still doesn't have default support for virtual memory and only runs on Power PC architectures - no x86 support (and no supported capability to run under virtualisation). Good luck with that. |