constrained update.

after seeing again, that TED talk where the guys explains why you shouldnt tell people about the project's you're working on as it saps their momentum, this update will barely even give you the headlines of what i've been working on recently.


much parusing of other potential bases for my various projects.  puppy n slitaz getting most attention.


a lil bit of learning more C (did hello world again, and the next couple steps in learning C), tho i still totally cant do anything in C yet, i suspect next time i give it a stab, i'll be hitting the magic "third time lucky" and might progress further with a more sturdy base to my learnins.


some crazyness where i once again wiped my entire hd on my laptop, and am now sitting in a fresh crunchbang-turned-squishboom to help me further develop "pris" (digit's Post ReInstallation Script) so it more fully completes the whole transition, so that when i do finally become happy enough with it to give it an official public release, running pris on crunchbang will result in as close to the same thing i want to release.

pris now includes more configs updates (still more to be done) and has do-release-upgrade added at the end of the script.


aaaand most pleasingly, i've even found time to make a few more ditties of artwork.  :)  GIMPage mostly, havnt played around with blender for a while.  and am again finding myself drawn to wanting to learn more inkscape and even more imagemagick...  havnt done much o that yet tho thnx to all this squishboom/pris development and witch research.


tbh tho...

i really really need to start putting flattr buttons on more things... or better yet start doing stuff that earns me some financial income...  on zero income at the moment, living off charity of others.    .... or even better yet, the whole world wakes up from this "money is essential" delusion and we all become responsible enough to be let loose with free energy.   ... no, i mean genuinely FREE energy.   not this "we built a giant turbine and you can pay us money to get the energy we are siphoning off from the environment" crap.   i mean freeeeeee energy.    what's that i hear the naysayers saying?  "there's no such thing as a free meal"?  energy-tycoon propaganda bulderdash!  a half-truth if ever there were.

the free energy movement people, from seorn to john hutchison, from tesla to tom valone, from willhelm reich to william kamkwamba, there's plenty stuff out there to help liberate us completely from energy dependence, and even financial dependence.

okies, i really could rant about that for days.  ...n this is supposed to be a linuxy blog.  ;)   so, i shall create an interesting segway back to it...

all this free energy stuff... get the schematics and plans... and you can make it yourself.   better to do it sooner rather than later, as there are moves by some BLPS with dominator separationist mindsets to prevent us being empowered to make such things, to take away the very tools and materials needed, which would mean, if we really wanted to make such things again, we'd be either back to scratch (from smelting ore and onward), or frugally scavenging around landfills for parts... which might not be such a bad thing anyways.   inconvenient n grotty... but it'd at least help clean up the world a little.  lol.    anyways, yeah, the plans for such free energy devices are often made freely available to the public, released as open-source hardware!

which reminds me of another piece of open-source hardware i learned of recently...  the Ben Nano-Note.

it is a teensie, tiny, peedie, mini, micro, nano, palm-sized, fully x86 compatible, PC.   it has a proper linux command line, and even a gui, and it costs around / less than $100.

and it's open-source hardware!!!!

this means you can go check out the design plans, check to see if there's anything dodgey going on in them, and even take the plans and go make one yourself!   or use the plans to inspire your own hardware projects.

now imagine if we had free energy too...  and then imagine we have the next generation of some reprap/mendel, and then imagine we have sussed out how to harness the fusion from devices like the geet engine so we can produce whatever periodic elements we need, and then something to help process these elements into reprap-able materials, .... et viola!   we have completely free de-centralised means of manufacturing!   some voice command interfaces and viola, it'd be as simple as is in star trek, walking upto a hole in the wall and stating what it is you'd like made.   no bs (bullshit/bad-science) proprietary restrictions on the code/patterns available for construction, just make it n go!  :)

hehe, sry, i've ranted on this before, i know, but if ever there was a good idea worth spreading... this is it.

infact, yeah, if i were to give a ted talk, this is what i'd rant about for 20 minutes, and i'd intentionally incite inspiration, get people motivated, employ various psychelogical trickery tools to coax people to participate in this... because if i were just ranting on about some cool project i, or others were working on, or just some vapid idea thats barely being worked on at all having just plucked a few disparate pieces and put them together to form an idea, then i'd be counter productively sapping motivation from the project.   just like the guy said in that other ted talk, as i mentioned at the start of this blog post.  :)