Re: high finance, computers, and life in general

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: http://www.cs..edu/~b
 > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 17:39:22 -0700
 >
 > So last week was mostly devoted to this banking business, and to dealing with
 > my new MacBook Pro.

Oh, no.  You should just do what I do and run Linux on everything,
including the Macs.  Then, you never have to upgrade, ever.  (At least, if
you run a slow-moving security-upgrades-only rolling-release Debian like I
do.)

 > Also I haven't yet found a way to
 > make it let me write into /usr/bin or /usr/lib even as root.  This used to be
 > not a problem.

This sounds like a nightmare.  Maybe they mount those as read-only?
Probably some feature of freebsd that was incorporated into MacOSX.

 > I've had trouble with
 > other software, too, but Thunderbird is the worst problem.

Time to go back to bsd-mail or mailx.  (I still use mush.)

 > And
 > having trouble recompiling Jove because of a conflict over the name getline
 > which now appears in stdio.h.

Too bad you can't install Debian packages, since there's already a jove
Debian package.

 > What I need is 2560x1600, So I guess I
 > could get a 4K one and waste 1/4 of the pixels or thereabouts.  Sigh.

I always "waste" my pixels.  I always downgrade my resolution.  Everybody
yells at me about this, but it's the only way to create a systemic change
that allows me to read the screen.