Playing TNNT - The November Nethack Tournament

Will be curious to see how well I do this year.

https://tnnt.org/

https://tnnt.org/player/mrflash818

Self-reminder: To make the game have better visibility, set my default terminal to the theme of "dark."

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EDIT 2022-11-27 Stayed with using a Lawful Dwarven Valkyrie. This TNNT ( Read more... )

computer geek - Commodore 64 - hackers (1995) - modems
Commmodore 64

I think the 1st time I really wanted a personal computer of my own was in high school, in the 80s.

A classmate/friend, RLV, had a Commodore 64, and I went to their house to hang out, and play on it with them.

I remember it had a cassette drive, and to play the C64 version ( Read more... )

nethack during contagion - jubilation - Rogue Level reached

For the first time, ever, since I started playing nethack, when I switched to Linux in 1999, I have reached nethack's Rogue Level!


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nethack - personal best, so far

Due to COVID19, been house-bound lately. And due to that, have been putting in many hours of nethack.

I just finished a personal best, so far.

I always let nethack randomly assign me a gender, race, and dungeon-eer role

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2020-03-20

The dungeon-eer was an Orc Rogue. I was able to get to The Big Room. ( Read more... )

Debian 9 stable == > Debian 10 stable installation

Steps were identical for when I did the Debian 8 stable == > Debian 9 stable installation.

Only differences were that sudo was already installed by default, so I did not have to have aptitude install it.

EDIT 2019-10-19

For my current Debian PC, which is a vintage Gateway laptop. I did have ( Read more... )

Debian 8 stable == > Debian 9 stable installation

Went to the Debian website. Downloaded the Debian 9 netinst ISO file

Installed the ISO file to a recordable CDROM using brasero

Moved my PC closer to my internet connection. Connected it to the internet using an ethernet cable.

This PC, a Gateway laptop, doesn't have a wifi driver that will ( Read more... )

timediff - c++ version - using with gnu date

The gnu date command give the current date on the computer system. The --iso-8601 parameter tells date to provide in the YYYY-MM-DD format

robert@pip2:/tmp$ date Sun Feb 10 07:35:12 PST 2019 robert@pip2:/tmp$ date --iso-8601 2019-02-10
Then you use command substitution to get the output of the ( Read more... )

Went to SCALE 16x this year.

Was nice to see old work colleagues. Was nice to visit the SGVLUG and Debian booths, and chat them up.

Visited the Free Software Foundation FSF booth, too. Gave a modest cash donation.

Mostly attended the libregraphics track. Was inspiring to know the GIMP team is currently six people, that work on the project ( Read more... )

trimmer - finished, tested, source code published.

cat someFileToTrim.txt | trimmer > trimmedFile.txt

Homepage for it, is located at http://mrflash818.geophile.net/software/index.html#trimmer

trimmer - new cplusplus project

In working with x12 834v5010 sample files, to use for testing nc_834v5010generator, I notice that sometimes the files have unnecessary whitespace padding either at the beginning of a segment, before the segment ID, or after the segment terminator.

After researching for *nix text utilities, I did not find a simple ( Read more... )