{"id":47,"date":"2002-12-07T01:58:43","date_gmt":"2002-12-07T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/07\/x\/"},"modified":"2002-12-07T01:58:43","modified_gmt":"2002-12-07T07:58:43","slug":"x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/2002\/12\/07\/x\/","title":{"rendered":"X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long sought to configure <A HREF=\"http:\/\/xfree.org\/\">X<\/A> to never-ever, no matter what, no consideration given to which sort of <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rxvt.org\/\">term<\/A> I happen to be using, never, ever ring the terminal bell again. I know the obvious answer is to claw out the bell piezo with a fork, but on the laptop the terminal bell goes through the system speakers and as I <A href=\"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blog\/2002dec.shtml#01_Dec_2002\">mentioned the other day<\/A>, I must be able to listen to IRC conversation.<BR> I finally gave up and just asked and in about two seconds <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.involution.com\/\">hoyhoy<\/A> piped up with:<BLOCKQUOTE> &#8220;if you&#8217;re running X, can&#8217;t you do a xset b 0 0 0&#8221; <\/BLOCKQUOTE>I mean, it&#8217;s like he was just thinking about that. Weird, but it has made my life just a bit better. And maybe someday, someone will type &#8220;never ever ever ring terminal bell in X&#8221; in a search box and this&#8217;ll make his life just a bit better too.  <P>I went and saw my prospective new work environs yesterday. It&#8217;s the area where <B>all<\/B> the detectives used to be when I was just a pup matriculating at <A HREF=\"http:\/\/maps.yahoo.com\/py\/maps.py?BFCat=&#038;Pyt=Tmap&#038;newFL=Use+Address+Below&#038;addr=1015+catalpa&#038;csz=austin%2C+tx&#038;Country=us&#038;Get%A0Map=Get+Map\">Catalpa Community College<\/A>.<BR>It&#8217;s a little depressing, like <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sitcomsonline.com\/barneymiller.html\">Barney Miller<\/A>, but with cubicles. The only thing that has me a little stressed though is the thought of wearing adult clothes. I can&#8217;t seem to get a handle on just how I would dress were I all grown up and zero-hour is fast approaching.<BR> Mostly it&#8217;s the shoes that are bothering me. If I can find some suitable clothes that I can wear with my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.danner.com\/products.asp?catid=12&#038;prodid=1802\">Fort Lewis Go-Devils<\/A> I&#8217;ll probably live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long sought to configure X to never-ever, no matter what, no consideration given to which sort of term I happen to be using, never, ever ring the terminal bell again. I know the obvious answer is to claw out the bell piezo with a fork, but on the laptop the terminal bell goes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lowdrag.org\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}