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words to live by
A weird imagination is most useful to gain full advantage of all the features.
— screen(1) manual.
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like a virtual workspace manager for the shell
How did I manage to go for so long without knowing about screen? screen allows you to create several connection sessions to a terminal, switch between them, detach from them, then reconnect from anywhere. I’d previously had to to set up long-running remote jobs as background jobs, relying on nohup and various methods to prevent terminal output. But no more!
This page taught me all I know about screen: screen: Keep Your Processes Running Despite A Dropped Connection
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the making of a long neck banjo
The making of a long neck banjo: Hugh Hunter sent me some pictures of the work in progress.
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no banjo tonite
Dang! The roads were too snowy for us to get to Guelph to hear Old Man Luedecke.
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barcodes of miscellaneous things found on my desk
021205009544 043100455349 051122172625 073999738360 093074013021 5099680001525 9780176224509
You can tell I found my cuecat, can’t you?
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guess my music competition
So I could listen to semi-disposable CDRs in the car (and with that phrase, my green cred has vanished) I wrote a program that converts directories of mp3s to WAV files and TOC files for cdrdao. It works rather well.
In order to get sensible file names, the program truncates album names down to eight letters. I will send $5 canadian by paypal to the first person to guess correctly the album and artist of the following four names:
dancetun darlingc hepooscl maggotbr
Answers in the comments only, please. They’re all official releases, before you accuse me of getting you to guess my mix CDs.
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puts the moronic in oxymoronic
i think that any commentary would be such a cheap shot that i’m refraining entirely …
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geese! geese! geese!
Because I saw geese flying north today, and because of the rim, it is officially spring in Scarborough. (The ~20cm of snow is merely an anomaly).
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Mr BigHands fears clamminess
A guy in our office washroom used NINE paper towels to dry his hands today. Two is maybe okay; you can make do with one.
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not so clean
Took the D70 in for a sensor clean to Vistek. Pretty decent that they they could do a sensor clean for $35, I thought.
But I’m back on the stretcar for a reclean – they missed a huge macule which is obvious even printed at postcard size. Add four TTC trips each visit, I guess I didn’t get such a bargain.
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define:irony
How strange that ads for Outragenl.ca | Take Action Against Violence happened during Hockey Night in Canada.
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(imp)Ursonate
Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu,
pögiff,
kwii Ee.Ursonate, by Kurt Schwitters (and the score).
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Old Man Luedecke: banjo dude – in Guelph next week
Who : Old Man Luedecke http://oldmanluedecke.ca/ Where : Folkway Music (163 Suffolk Street West, Guelph) Â http://www.folkwaymusic.com/events.html When : Friday March 7th - 8pm doors, 8:30 start How much : $15 What : clawhammer banjo and skewed lyrics
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not my favicon
I’m trying to make Firefox on Windows XP like Firefox with the GrApple theme on OS X. I don’t have to have it look the same, just compress all the bookmarks in the toolbar into the width of the screen.
This is how I want the bookmarks toolbar to look:
And this is how it looks right now on Windows:
I can find any number of links about only showing the favicon, but none about turning it off to save space. Aargh!
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stupid hp, part deux
HP’s Photosmart driver proved its genius once again:
The download figures would have made more sense if it was working in kilobytes. As is, that’s quite a buffer overrun.
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glacial
Toronto’s ice melter
Icebeard
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the first sign of spring in the city
So how did I know that spring was on its way today? We’ve still got huge piles of snow, it’s pretty chilly, and there are few birds and no green things. I knew ‘cos Roll Up The Rim To Win started today. And I won a coffee with my first one. Sweet.
Don’t think I need one of these, though.
