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^ Tmux is cool, but in a way it's made me too...I dont't know, too spread out? Just because I can load 12 programs at once I do, and of course, whatever they're doing is more exciting than the hard piece of writing I need to do that day. One task, one TTY at a time and I can stay focused on what I'm...

Yeah, well, I did break it, bigger than squat. Locked me up solid, and I'm not sure why. I was playing around with the layout in start-wm and something I did locked it up solid. I've still got it on the stick, so I can try again later.

OK, so I'm back on Wheezy (That's a story for another day. Suffice it for now to say that this machine hates Sid.) and instead of doing a Clonezilla restore, this time I decide to go from Square One. No big deal, done in 20 minutes, (Netinstalls rock. Expert/no selected tasks/targeted initrd and you...

^ This works for me. Maybe I'm just doing a Chicken Little for no reason, but I've seen it other places, and it never sits well with me. So, I'll just take my seat back in the bleachers and enjoy the rest of the game.

Almost agree with the new users and the influx of people who will be looking at what we're trying to do. But there's a downside, IMO, and that's the users that migrate over with the attitude of "Mint does so and so, *Buntu does this and that," etc., etc., and start demanding that this bloa...

Being an author, you'd think that I would have homed in on this like a missile, but maybe I missed it because I was only skimming anything not amd-64. I'd been thinking of doing something just like this with Spring, but you beat me to it. I'll bring all my authorial skills to bear and see if I can b...

^ I considered that once I found it, but I figured it was there for a reason and I didn't want to bork something by purging it. It's not something I would install, so I never thought to look for it until waaaaay too late.

It's gone now, and nothing blew up. Life is good again.

You are not going to believe this. I have been screwing around with udev rules all freaking morning, and nothing worked. Something was overriding the udev rules and ignoring them. I was about ready to just say screw it and add sudo to my aliases for unmounting the usb's when I tried one last thing. ...

I did come across powerline a while ago looking for/at something else, and I thought it looked cool. Seems like you can use it in tmux and vim and other stuff, which would be cool, but I haven't had a chance to see how hard it is to install. It's on the (growing) to-do list.

^ This is kinda like hitting puberty all over again. I start growing a beard and my penis gets longer.

That means my posts will get deeper, too. The cracking while I type will be embarrassing, but I can't have everything.

^ Sweet. I'll get the hang of all this eventually.

^ Downloaded. I just picked up Sobell's book on practical linux, but there's a lot of stuff in there I don't care about. Something like this, even if it's a little old, might be a better foundation to build from.

As a followup to "You Guys Rock", after installing Spring-64 as my daily driver, I was struck by a thought when I ran up against something simple. My external drives are automounting by default, as root, and even though they seem to be following the rules in my fstab, that's not the point....

@Ivan LOL Always being different, that's me. I'm not against automounting as a rule. If I'm running a DE, I would expect it, since a DE is supposed to make stuff simpler. But at the CLI, I would expect automounting to be something that I'd have to set up manually. To have it just be there without as...

I don't have an account yet, but I will, next day or so. OK, what are the frames for a code-tag? This is not the first time that I haven't used them, and I just realized that I don't know how. I just signed up, but I don't know what to do with it. I'm betting that comes in lesson two. Launfal, just ...

OK, so I'm seriously driving Spring AMD64, and I'm learning my way around. Got my partitions mounted and fstabbed, got my usb mount points in /media, manually mounted swap, so far so good. I did a quick forum search and couldn't find the answer to this anywhere. My USB drives are mounting automatica...

^ This doesn't sound too much like rocket-science or arcane wizardry. It might even fall within my limited skill set. The BBQ rocks and you guys have been great to me, so if you're willing to suffer my growing pains while I get up to speed, I'd like to help. I've been meaning to get into Sid full-ti...

^ I figured it was something like that. I have the Debian maintainers manual bookmarked, so I guess I'd best get to reading. @Bacon I saw that thread, and I thought maintaining packages would be cool, but I'd be starting at Square -1 (There's no way anybody wants me anywhere near a kernel source). I...

^ OK, I think I understand that in the abstract, but using dvtm as an example: Since I run Wheezy, I'm doing a checkinstall of the latest version, which is 0.11. The only build-dep is libncursesw, so I install libncursesw5-dev and libncurses5-dev. I do the checkinstall and get a .deb, so does that m...

Update: Just compiled again with checkinstall, and wow is that waaaaay easier. Just a couple dependencies and easy peasy. I didn't install the new build, but no errors. I assume it would work.

Goodbye, control files. Hello checkinstall.