csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap

Upon logging into my remote server with ssh, I started getting: csh: Cannot open /etc/termcap. csh: using dumb terminal settings. There is no rxvt-unicode entry in /etc/termcap. You should specify one, but if you’re lazy, you can just setenv TERM xterm in your ~/.cshrc. P.S. Nah, this doesn’t help. You have to put that line [...]

FreeBSD: script to manage processor speed

I have posted about this before <broken link>. This time, it’s not one script, but many. cpuctl is the script to be used when you want to switch the processor frequency. It goes anywhere you feel comfortable, I put it in ~/bin/. cpucontrol is a wrapper script to sysctl. It’s required, since a common user [...]

FreeBSD: script to manage processor speed

Edit: this has been updated <broken link>. You might ask: why not use powerd? Well, I tried. It sure does save energy, but there are also annoying pauses between when I start manically switching windows and it changes the frequency. So, I wrote a C Shell script to do the thing. Yes, C Shell is [...]

Disabling the xterm beep (bell)

Here’s a great article. According to it, I just added exec xset -b & to .xinitrc and set nobeep to .cshrc.