I've run into a couple of issues with an upgrade on a desktop. I had to rebuild the hard drive(s) anyway, and so found out there's a new LTS version, and went ahead. Never had any real problem before, but now I do.

1. Mudlet is no longer offered out of the repository. This seems more due to no maintainer there. Weird that Kildclient is still ( Read more... )

The new to me laptop is here. No AC adapter, so any plans to work with it are on hold till I get back home. I'm planning that some time around 3/25. It does have a 1TB drive, though when I get back I'll swap that out with the other 14 inch laptop I have that has a 2TB one, and make it dual boot into Ubuntu and FreeBSD then ( Read more... )

One of them being this post! Holy cow! New information on this dragon's life. One thing I have noticed is I tend to post more when I'm home. This may or may not be by design, but home does have a certain way of focusing the mind ( Read more... )

Bit of happy news this morning. I log in to Shopgoodwill and find that I won an auction for an old fourth generation i7 for $64.40. No hard drive, but I've got two 1TB drives from the dead HP I can throw in, plus a 2gig video card to boot, IF it'll cooperate. I remember the card was notoriously finicky ( Read more... )

Okay, the crontab didn't work as expected, so I went back to the original idea of writing a login script to do the job.

There IS a built in function to display the day of the week, namely date +%A. This returns the full name of the day. So from there, it was setting a variable to that value, namely $DAYOFTHEWEEK = date +%A.So from there, it was ( Read more... )

One of the things I did enjoy about the Unity desktop is that I had control over both the background image to use, and the background color. GNOME seems only to give control over the background image, at least in the GUI. There is a command you can use to change the background.

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background primary-color "#"
My thing ( Read more... )

Well, yikes. It's been a month already since my last update? Too long, my friends, too long. Anyway, I'm sitting here at the shop since I discovered last night the truck broke a leaf spring on the front suspension. I've already emailed dispatch letting them know of our delay, since it won't be for about another four hours till they can get us ( Read more... )

So yeah. On 12/5 Frontier came over and upgraded our internet service from 15/5M to...whatever it is now. Hang on. Huh. It hasn't been updated on their site yet. Ah well ( Read more... )

This activity always seems like a fight to the finish with me. I'm busy looking up a chocolate espresso cheesecake recipe, and of course the one I always used isn't showing!

Then...hooray! I made a wild guess and went directly to a site I seem to gravitate towards, Epicurious. Yes, I'm still old school and typed that link out by hand, html tags ( Read more... )

With tax season coming up, it's getting imperative that I have one laptop capable of running Windows(yuck), since Turbotax comes only in Winduhs/Mac flavors ( Read more... )