The lottalinuxlinks.com linux user web blog is where an old linux user rambles on about linux, FOSS, movies, books, and other geekery.
I’ve used a lot of web browsers. My journey down the “Information Super Highway” actually started before there were paved roads i.e. before the WWW existed. My first use of the internet was mainly using tools like gopher, archie, veronica, ftp, email, and usenet. The first web browsers I can remember using were Cello and Mosaic, but I may have used an older text mode web browser on a BBS prior to…
Since updating and reviving my webpage, I noticed that the HTML5 embedded audio player had stop working on my MODcast page, where I serve a continuous playlist of 242,430 MOD files (think chiptune music if you do not know what MOD files are).
It’s been a while…actually, almost 40 months since my last post. In fact, it’s been so long I thought I should update Jekyll before posting this. It will be interesting to see if this thing still works.
I’ve been using debian linux since 1995; when I say using, I mean at least one machine in my house has been running debian constantly during that entire time, be it a server install running stable, a laptop or desktop computer for the wife or one of my daughters running stable, or maybe testing, and always my personal daily driver laptop running sid. So when I changed my two personal daily driver…
Nothing earth shattering to see here, just a overdue, short post about two things that I have carried with me everyday since since graduating college in 1989: a pen and some kind of pocket notebook.
When the i3 window manager is run for the first time, a configuration wizard runs and allows you to set the modifier, or mod key, that you want to use for your keybindings. The configuration wizard allows you to choose either the Alt key or the Super key, i.e. one or the other, but not more than one. i3 though has support for all five modifier keys, and these can be set in your i3 config file. My…
And we have liftoff! I have a gemini capsule now.
i3-gaps is a fork of the i3 window manager that is kept up to date with upstream i3, and adds the feature of allowing you to have visible and configurable gaps between windows. This feature is just eye candy, and may or may not actually aid the user by providing some visible space between windows (at the expense of some screen real estate) to make clearer the distinction between adjacent windows.…
I have posted before about my experiences in the linux and FOSS community, and specifically about getting in, fitting in, taking part in, and later dropping out of the community. Since the recent rebirth of this dormant website, I have revisited mastodon, and logged back in to my fosstodon account again for the first time. I say the first time because I honestly cannot remember the last time I had…
Shortly after I set up my gopher hole last year, I downloaded all of the MOD files off of textfiles.com thinking I would mirror them on my gopher site. I decided not to once I had finished the 54 gig download of over 140,000 MOD files. The directory structure of the downloaded files was going to make it a little cumbersome to be useful on a gopher site. As an aside, I can’t remember the exact…