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- Thu Jun 04, 2020 4:01 pm
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
Don't ask me why I did this, but I did. Linux dellbert 4.14.182-dellbert #3 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 3 08:39:40 PDT 2020 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux pidsley@dellbert OS: Gentoo/Linux Uptime: 0d 0h 37m Shell: /bin/bash Init: sysvinit+openrc Disk: 1.9G / 20G Mem: 15Mi / 2.0G...
- Thu May 28, 2020 2:43 am
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
^ I know how this works and I started to write a reply, but it gets really geeky, so I stopped. You can look it up on wikipedia if you are really interested. (-: The wikipedia article is actually pretty interesting -- apparently there is something of a cassette "revival" (kind of like with...
- Mon May 25, 2020 11:30 pm
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
^ I am finally getting rid of a box full of cassettes in this latest purge (some of them from the mid to late 1970s). (-: I didn't have any way to play them in the house (my car still has a cassette player, but I never use it) so about two years ago I bought a cassette deck at a thrift store and cop...
- Mon May 25, 2020 3:32 pm
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
Yes. pidsley's fourth law - - "your collection of useless stuff expands to fill the available space" (unless you keep a really close watch on it). In one of my moves, I discovered boxes in the attic that I had not opened since the last move. I got rid of them without even opening them. The...
- Mon May 25, 2020 1:14 pm
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
^ I probably will keep it. I am in the process of getting rid of lots of things I don't need or use. Moving is a great time to do this, but I have not moved for 16 years (longest I have ever lived anywhere), so I have accumulated a lot of crap. I try to purge every once in a while, partly because I ...
- Mon May 25, 2020 12:21 am
- Forum: POLLS (/usr/bin/dialog)
- Topic: What's your uname?
- Replies: 264
- Views: 763203
Re: What's your uname?
Linux dellbert 4.19.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.19.118-2 (2020-04-29) i686 GNU/Linux pidsley@dellbert OS: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Uptime: 0d 0h 6m Shell: /bin/bash Init: systemd Disk: 845M / 9.8G Mem: 35Mi / 1.9Gi Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-9-686-pae i686 CPU: Intel Celeron CPU 2.40GHz I am going th...
- Thu May 21, 2020 1:55 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 424977
Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
The author tries a little too hard to be funny, but it is still an interesting read.
- Thu May 21, 2020 1:54 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: /dev/null
- Replies: 1574
- Views: 1198102
Re: /dev/null
^ I would definitely use that IP checker (I am an admin on another non-linux forum and often have to look up IPs for new registrations and other places where people look dodgy).
- Wed May 20, 2020 8:20 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: /dev/null
- Replies: 1574
- Views: 1198102
Re: /dev/null
^ I like it.
- Sun May 17, 2020 12:18 am
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 424977
Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
More science history.
- Sat May 16, 2020 5:54 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 424977
Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
A very interesting look at the history and science of psychotropic drugs. It always fascinates me that we don't know how so many drugs actually work.
- Fri May 15, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: TV series
- Replies: 863
- Views: 888327
Re: TV series
The Expanse books are much better than the TV series (in my opinion).
- Wed May 13, 2020 11:44 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 424977
Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
https://i.postimg.cc/PJXxDs4Y/F41-AF51-C-5763-42-A0-9-A66-6-C04-D88-EAA9-B-Img100.jpg My father was a math teacher; he would have loved this book. Exploring and explaining a litany of glitches, near misses, and mathematical mishaps involving the internet, big data, elections, street signs, lotterie...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:53 pm
- Forum: SCRIPTS & PACKAGES (/usr/bin)
- Topic: fzf - CLI fuzzy finder
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30188
Re: fzf - CLI fuzzy finder
Funny how many of us have moved away from the constant experimenting. I still have four different distros running on different machines, but I'm not building anything new or experimenting much at all these days. Still using Debian oldstable on the main machine; one of these days I might upgrade to s...
- Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:42 pm
- Forum: SCRIPTS & PACKAGES (/usr/bin)
- Topic: fzf - CLI fuzzy finder
- Replies: 12
- Views: 30188
Re: fzf - CLI fuzzy finder
I tried zsh for a while, and I like it, but it does not bring enough benefits for me to use it full time. Maybe if I used it more I would see more benefit, but I have too many machines with vanilla installs that only have bash and I am too lazy to install zsh everywhere. I tried fish for about five ...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:26 pm
- Forum: HOW-TO (/usr/share/man)
- Topic: Emacs tips and tricks
- Replies: 449
- Views: 374551
Re: Emacs tips and tricks
^ Interesting. I think calling that a systemd replacement is a little like calling a bicycle an M1-abrams tank replacement. It does show how little an "init" system really has to do, though.
- Wed Dec 25, 2019 3:42 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: ✞ Obituary ✞
- Replies: 243
- Views: 827665
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:46 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: ✞ Obituary ✞
- Replies: 243
- Views: 827665
Re: ✞ Obituary ✞
Cokie Roberts
This makes me sad. You guys outside the US might not know her, but here she was a well known and respected journalist. She was a fixture on National Public Radio for many years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/obit ... -dead.html
This makes me sad. You guys outside the US might not know her, but here she was a well known and respected journalist. She was a fixture on National Public Radio for many years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/17/obit ... -dead.html
- Tue Sep 17, 2019 6:39 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: /dev/null
- Replies: 1574
- Views: 1198102
Re: /dev/null
"I am doing this due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations." -- what an idiot.
- Sun Sep 08, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: INTRODUCTIONS & CHAT (/dev/null)
- Topic: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
- Replies: 478
- Views: 424977
Re: BOOK! (Hardcopy edition)
Finished the Coolidge bio, and started on this one, another president I know very little about): https://i.postimg.cc/ZK08HkFp/hoover.jpg Next up is this (a little out of order, I know; this one is part two of a three-part series, I read the first book a little while ago) https://i.postimg.cc/zDQbJy...