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Got a fully-functional dwm running in dCore. Importing suckless-tools worked to get dmenu. Doesn't look like much on the eeepc 701 but still it's satisfying to get it working.

One of the best things to come out of the Greenwich Village, New York City, folk revival scene of the early 1960s was The Holy Modal Rounders. Serious American roots music -- based on banjo and fiddle -- with a little dash of drugs. Below is a sampler of my favorite tracks. "The Cuckoo" an...

^^ That is gorgeous, Darry.

^^I should have remembered to try importing suckless-tools! I've installed that before to get dmenu. I'll give that a try, along with looking for those config files to copy. Thanks, mb!

okay, so it looks like I tried TC the hard way by starting with dCore. Regular TC is much easier. Sheesh, it's got GUI app loader and that macOS-like wbar thingy at the bottom. But, hey, I got dwm working on dCore (sort of, no dmenu...) and jwm too, once I worked out that they wanted me to edit a fi...

I downloaded and dd'd to usb the iso of the debian version of TC ("dCore"). Took me a little while to figure out the whole extensions concept. Reading the dCore wiki for "new-comers" (=noobs) helped a bit, but I don't think I could have made any sense of it if I hadn't been hangi...

^^ This is almost exactly what I feel about my Samsung phone. In the new year, I'm just going to get an iPhone, because I've decided that I just don't care about customizing a phone like I do my work computer and other devices. It just needs to do voice, text, show me road and street maps, run a bro...

^^ I've got an EeePC 701, which I use to play with spins and test things. Smoothie is on it now (and works nicely). I've played with Adipositas as a live system. Maybe I should just install that instead and get more comfortable with a tty-only situation.

Or, if you really want something that's still openbox-like but made pretty for you, preconfigured with slick icons and such, there's Semplice all ready to go. It's just shiny, blue, and Italian rather than flat, grey, and British. I use it sometimes, and to my noobish mind it feels like the true suc...

I am into rock criticism lately. On the nightstand currently: Greil Marcus, _Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music_ (1974). Dated and a bit pompous, but has moments. Some good investigations of the roots of rock in 1920s blues recordings and American country music. If you're into T...

hey, 1960s Bee Gees! say what you will about hair and their awful disco phase, listen to all those covers of "To Love Somebody"... (Nina Simone's is the best, no surprise there)

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I knew someone would go for "Purple Haze", and why not? But how to segue out of that?

Simon and Garfunkel - "Hazy Shade of Winter" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnZdlhUDEJo

^^ trying firefox-dev myself now. thanks to ivan for the tip, and to darry for noticing it when I didn't.

[EDIT: Said some stuff about Iceweasel that I'm reconsidering. I use it for work because I don't really know what's better for complex sites. Maybe Chromium?] links2 for reading blogs and forums. No annoying ads or dopey WordPress themes, just posts and comments and the essential images, and it's al...

^^(not US Springsteen, but that Canuck, Bryan Adams)

"96 Tears" by ? and the Mysterians (it's almost 69... and it's a great song!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7uC5m-IRns
"Summer in the City", The Lovin' Spoonful -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ZXiZAulmE

^^wux: I love Beck my favorite serious song by him: "Strange Apparition" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4I0_p13K_Y Something about that pounding piano, then that breakdown at the end, is just the best.... and then it's a toss-up between these two for his best funny song: Debra -- http...

Happy Birthday, Darryl. Glad you're here.

My area got 66 cm of rain (yes, really) in three days last month. Wish I could have diverted some of that to anyone who could have used it.

^^ Ivan et al.: "Black Friday" is a most excellent song by that most excellent US rock group, Steely Dan. (Best YT link I can find is this rough studio outtake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbjFbGwsXak) Probably you've gathered that it's also a horrible US pseudo-holiday marking the off...

hey clouds... I happen to be no sort of nix master myself, in awe of the others with real skills, but they tolerate me anyway... welcome, and enjoy

I made an X color scheme that matched the elaborate leaf and flower decorations in the margins of a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript. Thanks to rhowaldt's palleter script. I've lost the image of the manuscript, but the scheme is still in effect on my home system.