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The weekend was stellar. I´ll probably drone on about it later. First, though, a couple of interesting news items - at the end of this year Britain will finally finish paying off our war loans from the US, and the High Court has said that the Chagos islanders can go home. Result! (Or, at least, Result! pending the inevitable appeal). Oh, and HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

While I´m here, does anyone know how to turn off dead keys (the method of mapping extra characters to a standard keyboard rather than any other use of the phrase) under debian (etch, gnome)? I be grateful. It´s annoying me.

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No clue about dead keys, but....I don't suppose you've misplaced some paper plates, have you? Because you're the only person we can think of who's been in our car in teh past...long, long time...and...yeah. Paper plates. We're very confused.

HMG´s finally calling for the Guantanamo camp to be closed. Not going to happen, but nice to hear it said.

I find that more infuriating, tbh, as nothing will happen and everything will feel all the more futile. Or is that just my little dark cloud growing chin straps?

re Guantanamo it is nice to see it said. On the other hand, Blair has just appointed as home secretary someone who thinks that the solution to problems with policies breaking international law is not to change the policies but change the law so that whatever malfeasance is required would be legal, so there's a bit of a mixed message there.

Soph

Does Goldsmith saying it count as HMG saying it?

Desktop -> Preferences -> Keyboard

(might be Programs -> Settings -> Keyboard on some installs)

Select the 'Layouts' tab. Add the 'United Kingdom -> International' layout, and set it as the default. Then remove the 'United Kingdom -> International (with dead keys)' layout.

I'm bloody appalled that the govt introduced a new order in 2000. It was a crass and evil act in the 60s when we had different standards for such things. Nowadays... what on earth is motivating them? I wonder on the terms of "the agreement between the UK and the US under which each side has a veto on who should live in the whole Chagos archipelago." (from the BBC coverage)

Oh... under Ubuntu (debian based) the dead keys are turned off by selecting a keyboard map without them. I think it's under keyboard in the administrator menu. (Assuming you are using gnome). Etch, of course, may be different.

Yes, but you still owe me five quid, and I'll be holding on to that grudge for eons to come.

;)

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