Just a little advice: DO NOT MESS WITH LOCALE SETTINGS.

I just had to fight with a Fedora Core 4 machine. The standard GNU readline and emacs alt-d "kill-word" key binding froze my emacs. It took me a while to figure out that a crazy locale setting was the root of the problem: The admin chose


LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=


This is crazy! Hitting alt-d in the shell gives you some perverted Umlaut (an "ä"). Changing these settings in my .bashrc to

LANG=POSIX
LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=


fixed this.

Update:

On some systems it is necessary to modify the ~/.inputrc according to this:

set meta-flag Off
set convert-meta On
set output-meta Off
$if mode=emacs
"\M-d": kill-word
$endif


Also, I found setting

LANG=C
LC_CTYPE="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_PAPER="C"
LC_NAME="C"
LC_ADDRESS="C"
LC_TELEPHONE="C"
LC_MEASUREMENT="C"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"
LC_ALL=


to work nicely as well. Just like above POSIX setting.

it is so damn hard to compose a short (15 minute) talk?

Friday: Party at a colleague's house. No pqgf's, but lots of bear and the usual nerd-geek talk. Oh well. Have to show up.

Saturday: Perhaps RBB Lauftreff in the early afternoon.
Clean/Tidy apartment, evening plans have yet to be made.

Sunday: Chill out. Recover from Sat. night, new-in-town Lauftreff at 16:00 (?), work

Another day in [pick your favorite state/place; whatever].

I worked pretty late last night. Implemented CCCCFakeNeutrinosMoL. Testrun is going and seems to work. All coding was done under the influence of Jim Beam Black Label (w\ Coke, of course).

Woke up early this morning. Managed to force me to sleep a bit longer. One moment I am miserable, the other I am desperate.

It's 22:45. Just got back from the gym. Computers all fired up.

Was trink' ich jetzt? Bier for starters. Da ist noch dieser JB BL, den ich am Samstag im Karstadt erstanden habe. Coke ist da. Vielleicht.

Off to work... my to-do list keeps getting longer and longer...

The network at Benz is down. I'll stay at home until I get confirmation that it is back up. First things first: Coffee now!