gregh  2008-07-09 07:33  barbri  barexam  bar_studying   

The bar exam starts three weeks from yesterday, just over 20 days from now. I've now completed all of my substantive lectures, and now I'm beginning my essay rampage. I'm coming to terms with the exam, as it becomes clear to me that being able to say enough on topic is more important than mastery of the law. It's silly to think I could master Wills, Trusts, Community Property, or Corporations in weeks. If I followed the Bar/Bri schedule, I'd be taking the Trusts lecture today and the Community Property lecture on Friday. (I took the "make up" lectures over the weekend and through yesterday.)

Clearly, just enough is good enough.

This entire process has been a drain; it just doesn't fit my style at all. I am really looking forward to the whole thing being done.

gregh  2008-07-09 07:45  cali_awards  Law_School  usf   

Outside the registrar's office, if you're interested. As usual, I'm not going to post them. They'll be online in due course.

(My last semester of waiting only to be disappointed. It's one thing when you get an A and don't get one -- a handful of people get As every semester -- but you really get your hopes up when you get an A+. Yes, I know this will result in a huge pity party for me...)

gregh  2008-07-09 10:14  osx  ssh  x11   

I finally upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard in preparation for the bar exam. I was pretty happy with Tiger and saw no real advantages in Leopard, so I wasn't in a hurry to upgrade. However, I wanted a fresh Boot Camp install of XP for the bar exam, and that required the upgrade, because the Tiger Boot Camp never left beta and had expired.

So, over the last week, I started noticing X11 running, even though I hadn't been running X11 apps. That struck me as odd and just a bit scary. I started hunting for some virus or trojan to no avail.

Apple added dynamic X11 support to Leopard through launchd. So, every time I cranked up an SSH session, X11 was being launched. Apparently, I asked for this behavior:

gregory-haverkamps-computer:~ gregh$ cat ~/.ssh/config
ForwardX11 yes
#ForwardX11Trusted yes

I don't remember setting that, but since the timestamp of the file dates to 2005, it's no surprise I'd forget. Normally, it's not an issue, because I don't have a display set, anyway.

So, I just need to disable automatic X11 forwarding (or execute ssh -x) to solve my problem. And finally, I can stop worrying about something going nuts on the machine.