http://jedmallen.com

enabling scrollwheel in slack

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "InputDevice"
         Identifier "Mouse0"
         Driver "mouse"
         Option "Protocol"        "auto"
         Option "Device"          "/dev/input/mice"
         Option "Buttons"         "5"
         Option "ZAxisMapping"    "4 5"
EndSection

http://bluehackers.org/2008/12/19/doing-a-little-more

1. bike commute – I have been bugging my bike-freak brother to set me up a road bike that’s good for commuting to work. 3+ klicks is a short bike ride (I walked it in 38 minutes).

2. run - I can probably do this before work, say five-ish. I have to get new shoes for this.

I’m slowly getting into the GTD groove. I shouldn’t have stopped it back in 2002. Amazing how a few small lists can make you feel you’re in control of your life.

Someday/Maybe:

- invest some part of my savings in something that doesn’t require full-time attention

- get back to my net rackets

- money management

- re-learn drawing (blank ink preferred)

Sometimes you watch some complex process and hold your breath until it gets done. That’s the feeling I had back when I had a 486 and compiled GPG now and then because of some minor adjustment in the algos. Most of the time the old 486 conks out on the compile and I had to compile each module individually before I compile the whole program (eliminating the need for a Makefile altogether). And sometimes the old horse soldiers on and coughs up the newly compiled program (until I had to change twofish or cast5 again and do the same process all over).

Watching my slack box build mplayer, seeing those lines scroll… pure serenity.

You got two choices:

1. rfstool

2. visualrfstool

visualrfstool I haven’t tried yet.

Here’s how to use rfstool in Windows:

1. Run rfstool on the command line and that will show you on what partition Reiserfs resides in. For my case it’s Disk 0, Partition 3.

2. rfstool -p0.3 ls

3. rfstool -p0.3 cp /home/nocti/filetocopy copy-this-file-here

That’s it.

No write abilities. Just read.

Good enough for me.

I’m using cygwin in this screenshot.

Slackware for my Desktop.
Zenwalk for my laptop.

Nice quote from Slack book:

“There are many reasons why Slackware is Linux’s oldest living distribution. It does not try to emulate Windows, it tries to be as Unix-like as possible. It does not try to cover up processes with fancy, point-and-click GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces). Instead, it puts users in control by letting them see exactly what’s going on. Its development is not rushed to meet deadlines-each version comes out when it is ready.

Slackware is for people who enjoy learning and tweaking their system to do exactly what they want. Slackware’s stability and simplicity are why people will continue to use it for years to come. Slackware currently enjoys a reputation as a solid server and a no-nonsense workstation. You can find Slackware desktops running nearly any window manager or desktop environment, or none at all. Slackware servers power businesses, acting in every capacity that a server can be used in. Slackware users are among the most satisfied Linux users. Of course, we’d say that. :^)”

And that basically sums up what I need for my unix system. Gentoo gave me that to a certain point. But along the way it got tedious, both net- and cpu-wise. It’s still a great distro though.

Still missing a few things (mplayer, among other things).
Using kde/xfce temporarily. I’ll finish tweaking flux probably some time next week, then get into those php/perl projects I’ve been thinking about for the whole year.

That’s Wayne Shorter on the playlist

I was eating hex for breakfast even while you were still in your diapers.

Who’s the n00b now?

And you had to go to college for that?

Seriously.

Browsing at a bookstore, came upon this.

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/spook.asp

No thinking.

No neurotransmitter involved whatsoever.

Picked it up.

Paid for it.

Felt I did the right thing.

Open source rulez

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz.htm

http://aluigi.altervista.org/mytoolz/daa2iso.zip (download)

No need to install crap like PowerISO who just adds to the proprietary software fodder that pollutes the net.

Same thing goes for Nero’s NRG files, WinRAR’s RAR archives, WinWurd’s DOC, etc…. and the list goes on. Listen up people, creating proprietary file formats that only your software can open is just as bad as creating a language only you can understand. Like, what’s the point? Money can only go so far…