Vicare Scheme is an experimental fork of Ikarus Scheme; “Vicare” is pronounced the etruscan way. While the long term aim of the project is still not clearly established, Vicare has the following short and midterm goals: fix bugs; push compliance with R6RS, keeping a pragmatic eye at issues; enhance the POSIX interface.
The thing is that Ikarushasn’t been maintained and Aziz seems to be busy with other things.
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Even the vast majority of Scheme systems, the platform that has experimented the most with hygiene, provide unhygienic defmacro-style macros—presumably because not even Scheme implementors take hygiene very seriously.
— Let Over Lambda, Chapter 6
Hygiene is in the standard here.
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The 2nd edition is now available. It looks pretty good; I’ll be ordering it.
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Dolphin is very nice; good libraries and pleasant to use.
Dolphin Smalltalk has a nice new website and lower price.
Hope those guys keep making it.
While installing the power hookup for the Gerbings coat I managed to dislodge the battery drain hose by lifting up the battery (because I wanted to look at it).
Brooke explained that:
The battery vent/drain hose attaches on the right side (as you sit on the bike) and should go to the same place the gas tank filler neck drain hose and the fuel sender drain hose go to. There’s a bracket down near the right foot peg back in somewhere between/near the swing arm and frame. It should be easy to see with the right side panel off the bike.
He was right. Took off the one-screwed-on side panel and the bracket is right there along with the two other tubes. The drain now faces where it should… the ground.
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Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection is a nice piece of software. Wondering how to configure a desktop size so that it would fit perfectly into rotated monitor, I found the directions hereto be very simple:
To set a custom display resolution in an .rdp file Open the .rdp file in a text editor. Add or change the following settings: desktopwidth:i:<value> desktopheight:i:<value> where <value> is the resolution, such as 1680 or 1050.
The articles goes into detail about other ways to set the values.
Never clean your seat with Armor All; you will slip around all over on your seat.
I spent 5 hours experiencing this, and after 3 hours (ridden away from home of course) it started getting painful.
The guys on concourstech suggested 303 or F21 instead.
A couple of weeks ago I “installed” the Targa 1/2 tank bra. It installs easily; you just hook the edges around the bottom of the gas tank. 
If your Concours has a puddle of gasoline under the tank when you go out to start it, don’t. One of the cylinders is probably full of fuel. If you try to start, you will cause hydrolock.
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