No more cAPS LOCK

The only time I hit the Caps Lock key is by accident. Well, the only time I used to hit that key was by accident.

After sitting down for a little think, I decided it would be good to remap the key to Enter. With the help of US Netizen's Fix Caps Lock page, I was well on my way.

Adding the above key to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout and rebooting gave me another Enter key. It adds a certain symmetry to the keyboard.

And it still gives me happy jollies every time I hit it on purpose. Synapse-creation ahoy!

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xgame: An update

I've done very little poking around on gravitas in the last year, my SVN repo only saw commits in September last year and March. Recent changes:

• Physics works well enough to set up orbits.
• New models. (for the observant, the red planet is the ball from the dx samples)

XNA 2.0 might be part of the reason for stalling, I've been pondering the move to there.

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XMPP Message Update: Sending

I've gotten off the starting block with implementing the message update JEP. The implementation has matured in the 2 years (!) since I drafted the JEP and it's become a lot simpler.

What I've done so far: use gajim's sent message history to select a message, then insert the replace element when retransmitted. The replace element is all that we need to correct typos.

The image also illustrates the elegant degrading as neither client supports the protocol. Yet.

Gajim tx done. Gajim rx and Psi tx/rx to come. And a shiny new XEP

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