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Before I even get started, before I deliver the unhappy news, I should say first and foremost "thank you," to everyone who left notes or sent e-mails over the past four months. There were a lot more than I anticipated, and I apologize if I didn’t get the time to reply to all of them. [...]
As I have mentioned in the past, my real-life responsibilities include some middle-management tasks. Quite glamorous. Unfortunately, as they did last month, those responsibilities became more time-consuming last week, and don’t seem to offer any foreseeable break in the future. I must put this site into hibernation for a while, and if I can recover [...]
Time for another quick look at the wonderful world of console applications. This is bmon, and it would be easy to dismiss this as yet another network monitor for the console. But actually, I like it a lot. Most monitors require you to declare an interface at startup, and most of those are tied to [...]
It’s a tiny bit ironic that a day after I harass high-end distros for possibly lowering the bar too much, I show a screenshot of Fedora 15. I can’t explain why, but I was actually a little bit excited by the prospect of looking at this. I’m not a Fedora user at all. I grew [...]
I suppose I should be embarrassed that I actually took up this position in a conversation. 27.05.11 06:50 I’m starting to think that young kids on the Internet are all idiots. 27.05.11 06:58 I have suspected for a long time that everyone on the Internet is an idiot. 27.05.11 06:58 The Internet is like cars [...]
In case you were wondering, or even if you weren’t, I should mention that the 150Mhz Mebius is still the brains behind this operation. And although I sometimes flip-flop between distros for it, the chief contender at this juncture is still ConnochaetOS. During my Extremely Busy Time a week or so ago, I briefly returned [...]
Sometimes I try things that sound good while they’re bouncing around in my brain, but after they’re done, I wonder why I bothered. A long time ago, someone posted a method for trapping rtorrent in screen session and running it as a daemon. Attaching to the screen session gave normal users a way of controlling [...]
Time is short today, but I feel like I should leave an equally short note by mentioning goosh.org. It’s hard for me to frame exactly what goosh.org is, except maybe to point out that "goosh" breaks apart into "Google shell." So if you can imagine a text-based interface to Google … well, you might [...]
Speaking of gray areas, I never know whether I should jump for joy or just raise a minor ruckus when I find a game that runs in textmode under SDL. Dwarf Fortress is one example, although Dwarf Fortress qualifies as something beyond "game." The complexity and detail and variety push it to something … something [...]
I tampered with a few console programs during my hiatus, with one of the more interesting being darkstat. I don’t know if I should really call darkstat a console program or not. For what I saw, there was very little that it did at the console, with most of the attention going to its [...]
