Jed’s fridge door notes (a.k.a. “so i won’t forget”)

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.

This has been grating at me for the longest time. Now to get this perennial monkey off my back for good.

Ditched Debian. Installed Slack. Bliss…