so, this week i have been mostly.... procrastinating.
XD
after a quick n speedy throw out of the dirty gimpstick, i thought the alpha7 of witch would just fly out in less than a week too. that didnt happen. partly because in classic typicalness for me, i got distracted with the thousand and one other interlinking interests i have.
and... ok, so my procrastinating has been a bit worse than that if im honest.
i installed a load of games to try.
so i been playing games... maybe only half an hour to a couple per day... but that still feels like a lot to me considering that, apart from my diablo2 addiction that sometimes resurfaces, i dont really play games anymore.
chat too, has been a bit of a distraction, as it always is.
squishboom? well, technically, i still use it every day... but i'm no longer happy with the idea of basing it on the lts release of ubuntu.... 9.04 was great, 9.10 introduced many problems, 10.04 as is, hasnt really corrected those problems, and introduced new ones.... but who knows, maybe it gets better as it updates? seems funny that it's now become the ultimate back burner project that i dabble with and research for, n yet, there's me with my squishboom page and sat alone in the #squishboom in irc.freenode.net.
so i've started doing some more distro hopping....
kinda itching to get rid of sabayon... despite it's awesomeness. maybe this is some kind of masochistic subconscious behaviour, but i want something less nice, than sabayon. y'know, like when jeremey clarckson says he wants the car on the right because it's less good. ...more fun.
and speaking of fun... i'm even finding myself looking at funtoo pages often.
funtoo + metro ?= .... funtoobang!
yeah, i luuuurv the idea of gentoo base to my crunchbang-alike interfaces n app selection.
and i lurv that is sounds like fun to bang. ;) ... there's levels. ;) XD
however, a newer kid on the block has really caught my eye now that they have a GNOME version as well as KDE.
TOOROX.
it's gentoo based, live/installer... and i've installed both the latest versions. kde and gnome. kde over the gnome install at the moment, but i think i'll go back to the gnome version because kde makes me want to vomit and go on homicidal rampages.... so... i shant be sticking around with anything kde4 has touched.
it's no where near as painful to stick bits of gnome in a lightweight setup than it is to stick in bits of kde4.
but i hear even gnome are planning their own self sabotaging major upgrade soon too.
so glad i like my lightweight systems.
i even asked on the toorox forum if there was any plans for a lightweight version... no responce last i looked... but that was only short ago.
toorox has so impressed me, beyond all (few) other gentoo based distributions i've seen. it's up there with the best... sabayon and pentoo. [edit~ and of course gentoo itse;f... um, but only outta respect... it's live cd's are a bit... standard.] i still have the name "papug" in the back of my mind, wanting to check it out again sometime. but for now... i'm gushing over toorox.
now if only i could drag myself away from my "crunchayon" setup in my sabayon 4.2 minimal install, that i've been using for... ages, on my always-on-workstation, then i could get around to reinstalling toorox gnome version.
strangely, for all the beating-myself-up i do over not working... like falling asleep, doing excersize and general down-time, i have been making some nice changes n developments for wastedartist.com too. it's looking a little more plush. it's index page is now more in keeping with the general simple navigation theme i'll be employing throughout the site, and, more relevently to the intended topic of this blog.... it now links to some of my code projects
( daskeb, and qalator ), and distro projects too.
i've also been practicing my conky and gtk/ob theming skills. v.useful for a free software distro producer. ;)
still, i've yet to find the money lust. ... oh well, looks like another day of being a financial lepper. XD
u could always... flattr me, like, for trying so hard. XD
i even found time to make progress towards my much more complicated qalator2 script... but no holding your breath for that one...
on my agenda next is:
witch alpha7
(just gotta fine tune a couple scripts, n then figure out how to get scrotwm installed from source for that pesky distro that didnt have it in it's repo yet, but besides that is perfect for the next rowan)
gimpstick2 pure
i kinda made it, but it's one to be fussier over than the gimpstick dirty. it really takes great restraint and vigilance, and walking on tight ropes, and dodging crocodiles, to get this release out. very constrictive series of proceedures to fulfill to ensure it's done right, to my high standards for what the pure gimp aught to be like.
the rest of wasted artist's freesoftware online-commerce solution.
&
qalator2
learn more programming to be able to do more, more, more, more.
so as much as i'm gunning for toorox on my workstation now... i've got to go check out archbang's latest, dl'd it twice a while ago, shortly after its release, once to each machine... but i've yet to find/make the time for it yet.
i might consider using it for my laptop... at least on it's small partition first... n see if it's stable n robust enough for me to push it around, like i do with my ubuntu based squisboom.... n we all know archbang will be wice as fast n use a 7th the ram. so... it seems like a no-brainer, especially if u then add my list of complaints about canonical and ubuntu... but... there's something to be said for flocking with a crowd of noobs, lol, they're well catered for, and never need learn their machine.... doh! no! that's ever-noob ultra dumb thinking there. smash the plastic box, see the machine! rwar!
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Saturday, 9 October 2010
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
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. :)
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. :)
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
LevinRhan gets fed up with masked packages
since i'm quite chatty these days, and this has come up in conversation a few times, rather than respond to the "what are u installing" questions fresh each time, i'm drawing out here, the rough plans as they are at this stage, for my big old drastic revamp of my whole system. biggest change for years.
on the 300gig velociraptor which until now, has only ever had 3 partitions, i plan on having:
sda1 16gb Swap
(yeah, i've heard not to go above 4... what do they know about my needs)
sda2 16gb Secondary System
(where i'll b when it hits the fan)
sda3 ??mb GRUBBY
(a small distro, probably slitaz, with a saikee style grub chainloader)
(THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTITION)
sda4 ~~ extended
sda5 3gb #!Statler vanilla
(or likely in the future, whatever is the most up to date crunchbang)
sda6 16gb #!Statler Squishy
("squishy" from hence forth, for purposes of this document, simply refers to my custom configuration as used in default squishboom)
sda7 16gb #!9.04 Squishy
(old faithful, at least it has been for my laptop for the past whiley)
sda8 3gb Archbang vanilla
(likely the latest archbang. cos u know, i like to keep track of it's progress too.)
sda9 >5gb Archbang Squishy
(yep, my custom configuration built on archbang... unsure how big i should make it... more likely will be another 16gb, echoing the partitioning for the crunchbangs.)
sda10 5gb Debian - Squishy
(yep, its not statler, it might be squeezebang, but the idea is more to build a squishboom on debian from scratch.)
sda11 5gb Crux - Squishy
(CRUX! that's right! i've long wanted to give it a shot... so why not give it some space for the funs.)
sda12 1gb Slitaz - Squishy
(was about to limit it to 512mb only, but 1gb just seems a little more round and convenient)
sda13 5gb Slackware - Squishy
(LONG have i been a Slackware admirer, :) so i imagine i'll be in full on tantric geekgasm over having a squishslack.)
sda14 3gb Slax - Squishy
(slax!? SLAX!? yeah... :) its loadsa fun. has great potential to be a dream distro, but as it is, it's more like rummaging around a junkyard trying to put a decent system together. still... loadsa fun... and easy to make your own distro.)
sda15 ~ sabayon - squishy
(nope... purpose of this is an end to my time with gentoo based... unless i opt for paludis)
sda15 ??gb BSD
sda16 ??gb BSD
sda17 ??gb BSD
sda18 ??gb BSD
(4 BSDs!? yeah. most likely PC, FREE, DragonFly & Open)
sda19 ??gb ICAROS
(yeah, i might even stick an aros in there.)
sda20 ??gb AROSBOOM (squishy)
(and if i stick aros in... why not see if i can go mad and install various more familiar apps for the interface)
sda21 room for more distro surfing
sda22 room for more distro surfing
sda23 room for more distro surfing
sda24 room for more distro surfing
sda25 room for more distro surfing
...and more?
and then on sdb 1.5tb internal, besides some backup partitions, storage, there's already partitions prep'd for more.
besides all my various usb pendrives, i'll make sure at least one of them has a full on chainloader grub too, incase something happens to my sda3. also, in sda3, i'll make sure there's information (updated periodically) with what is in all the partitions... y'know, in a seperate text file, so i dont go messing about too much in the grub config and risking borking it with a pebcak error.
pretty wild huh?
aaaand, if this idea has just come upon me in my fever while ill, i've still got my dd'd backup of my old major grande install of sabayon, and two other sequentially smaller sabayon installs backed up too, so i can always go back. :)
i'm taking it slow and cautious still tho... i dont want to make any more silly mistakes while my thinking is still a bit groggy from this cold, or flu or whatever i've had.
there. info overload. :D now i just need to link next time someone asks me what i'm up to. :D
on the 300gig velociraptor which until now, has only ever had 3 partitions, i plan on having:
sda1 16gb Swap
(yeah, i've heard not to go above 4... what do they know about my needs)
sda2 16gb Secondary System
(where i'll b when it hits the fan)
sda3 ??mb GRUBBY
(a small distro, probably slitaz, with a saikee style grub chainloader)
(THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTITION)
sda4 ~~ extended
sda5 3gb #!Statler vanilla
(or likely in the future, whatever is the most up to date crunchbang)
sda6 16gb #!Statler Squishy
("squishy" from hence forth, for purposes of this document, simply refers to my custom configuration as used in default squishboom)
sda7 16gb #!9.04 Squishy
(old faithful, at least it has been for my laptop for the past whiley)
sda8 3gb Archbang vanilla
(likely the latest archbang. cos u know, i like to keep track of it's progress too.)
sda9 >5gb Archbang Squishy
(yep, my custom configuration built on archbang... unsure how big i should make it... more likely will be another 16gb, echoing the partitioning for the crunchbangs.)
sda10 5gb Debian - Squishy
(yep, its not statler, it might be squeezebang, but the idea is more to build a squishboom on debian from scratch.)
sda11 5gb Crux - Squishy
(CRUX! that's right! i've long wanted to give it a shot... so why not give it some space for the funs.)
sda12 1gb Slitaz - Squishy
(was about to limit it to 512mb only, but 1gb just seems a little more round and convenient)
sda13 5gb Slackware - Squishy
(LONG have i been a Slackware admirer, :) so i imagine i'll be in full on tantric geekgasm over having a squishslack.)
sda14 3gb Slax - Squishy
(slax!? SLAX!? yeah... :) its loadsa fun. has great potential to be a dream distro, but as it is, it's more like rummaging around a junkyard trying to put a decent system together. still... loadsa fun... and easy to make your own distro.)
(nope... purpose of this is an end to my time with gentoo based... unless i opt for paludis)
sda15 ??gb BSD
sda16 ??gb BSD
sda17 ??gb BSD
sda18 ??gb BSD
(4 BSDs!? yeah. most likely PC, FREE, DragonFly & Open)
sda19 ??gb ICAROS
(yeah, i might even stick an aros in there.)
sda20 ??gb AROSBOOM (squishy)
(and if i stick aros in... why not see if i can go mad and install various more familiar apps for the interface)
sda21 room for more distro surfing
sda22 room for more distro surfing
sda23 room for more distro surfing
sda24 room for more distro surfing
sda25 room for more distro surfing
...and more?
and then on sdb 1.5tb internal, besides some backup partitions, storage, there's already partitions prep'd for more.
besides all my various usb pendrives, i'll make sure at least one of them has a full on chainloader grub too, incase something happens to my sda3. also, in sda3, i'll make sure there's information (updated periodically) with what is in all the partitions... y'know, in a seperate text file, so i dont go messing about too much in the grub config and risking borking it with a pebcak error.
pretty wild huh?
aaaand, if this idea has just come upon me in my fever while ill, i've still got my dd'd backup of my old major grande install of sabayon, and two other sequentially smaller sabayon installs backed up too, so i can always go back. :)
i'm taking it slow and cautious still tho... i dont want to make any more silly mistakes while my thinking is still a bit groggy from this cold, or flu or whatever i've had.
there. info overload. :D now i just need to link next time someone asks me what i'm up to. :D
Friday, 16 April 2010
yacb
yacb, Yet Another Config Backup.
this time, in my fresh archbang install, i've installed firefox and all the addons i use in my crunchayon* opperating system's firefox.
the purpose of this is so that should i need to again, i can just (in theory) download and decompress this .mozilla folder to my home folder, and assuming the correct version of firefox is installed, it will run just as i like it, with all my addons.
for clarity of reference, here are the addons, as generated by MR Tech Toolkit:
and without further ado, here's the link to the uploaded config:
http://omploader.org/vNDY2Zw/digitsfresharch.mozilla.tar.lzma
or the short link:
http://omploader.org/vNDY2Zw
or if for some reason you wish to see omploader's info page about it:
http://omploader.org/iNDY2Zw
but i'm not stopping there.
as nice as the config files for conky, tint2 and openbox's menu.xml and rc.xml in vanilla archbang 2 rc2 are, i've grown too accustomed to my own configuration, especially the keyboard shortcuts... not really all that fussed about my menu.xml to be honest tho. its not as useful once u get a nice logical and intuitive keyboard shortcut setup.
just to illustrate some of the general guidelines in my keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl, like the name suggests, is generally for "control", root control that is. so for example, if u press Tux*** - f to launch file manager, Ctrl - Tux - f to do the same, but with root priveledges.
Alt, like the name suggests, is either used to "alternate" something, like perhaps a toggle, or it is used as an alternative where that particular key combination (without the alt) is already taken by something else, but no other suitable alternative key had been found. one example of this in squishboom is the package manager and partition editor, both mapped to p. as package management is likely the more commonly used, it gets Tux-p, while the likely less often used partition editor is assigned the Tux-Alt-p.
Tux, as the more sherlock holmes / quincey / ironside / dunnaway among you may have already guessed, is for things relating to the opperating system... or more accurately/commonly, the window manager. like for starting applications, adjusting transparencies, switching desktops....
...well, sort of. it's an imperfect system, as the underlying crunchbang original controls were pretty much all kept intact so to preserve useability and workflow for those switching from crunchbang to squishboom. squishboom's interface can be described with reasonable accuracy as crunchbang plus.
ooookay, enough waffle, to the point, here are the links to my squishboom** configs:
http://omploader.org/vNDY3Yg/digitssquishboomopenboxconfigs.tar.lzma
be advised, it may not all work, for example, there will be shortcuts in the rc.xml which will refer to applications not installed, and the autostart script will attempt to launch files which arent available. the menu.xml has been neglected quite a bit thnx to both my shortcuts, and the debian automenu included within it, which of course will not function in non debian/ubuntu based distros.
http://omploader.org/vNDY3aA/digitssquishboomtint2configs.tar.lzma
my tint2 config. maximising screen space usage, taking a leaf out of the book of tiling window management. :)
http://omploader.org/vNDY3aw/digitssquishboomconkys.tar.lzma
and the conkys. as nice an idea as the keybinding conkyswitcher is, its not essential for me at the moment with my system of shortcuts i can fathom easily enough without the cheatsheet.
http://omploader.org/vNDY3ZQ/digitssquishboomtildaconfig.tar.lzma
i've also included my tilda config, because i always install it, and its becoming an all too familiar experience reconfiguring it in every distro i install.
okies, that'll do the job.
*crunchayon is the nickname i gave to a minimal sabayon 5.1 install, configured to be like as is in squishboom (or crunchbang if you like).
** squishboom originally being my crunchbang adaption inspired by crunchbang, and attempting to take that which i liked about crunchbang most, further.
*** Tux is name i give to what you may know of as the "Super" or "Windows" button/key. mine has a little "Tux" the penguin picture on it. :)
this time, in my fresh archbang install, i've installed firefox and all the addons i use in my crunchayon* opperating system's firefox.
the purpose of this is so that should i need to again, i can just (in theory) download and decompress this .mozilla folder to my home folder, and assuming the correct version of firefox is installed, it will run just as i like it, with all my addons.
for clarity of reference, here are the addons, as generated by MR Tech Toolkit:
Generated: Fri Apr 16 2010 15:56:05 GMT+0000 (UTC)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100402 Namoroka/3.6.3
Build ID: 20100402183726
Enabled Extensions: [14]
- Active Stop Button 1.3.0
- BarTab 1.5.1
- BetterPrivacy 1.47.4
- Compact Menu 2 3.1.1
- DownloadHelper 4.7.3
- Flagfox 4.0.4
- Flashblock 1.5.13
- Ghostery 2.0.3
- MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.4
- NoScript 1.9.9.63
- Packed Menu 1.0
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.2
- Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) 2.0
- The DoGooder 1.0.3
Installed Themes: [4]
- Black Stratini 2.1
- Classic Compact 3.6.0
- Default
- Stratini 2.1
Installed Plugins: (1)
- Shockwave Flash
and without further ado, here's the link to the uploaded config:
http://omploader.org/vNDY2Zw/digitsfresharch.mozilla.tar.lzma
or the short link:
http://omploader.org/vNDY2Zw
or if for some reason you wish to see omploader's info page about it:
http://omploader.org/iNDY2Zw
but i'm not stopping there.
as nice as the config files for conky, tint2 and openbox's menu.xml and rc.xml in vanilla archbang 2 rc2 are, i've grown too accustomed to my own configuration, especially the keyboard shortcuts... not really all that fussed about my menu.xml to be honest tho. its not as useful once u get a nice logical and intuitive keyboard shortcut setup.
just to illustrate some of the general guidelines in my keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl, like the name suggests, is generally for "control", root control that is. so for example, if u press Tux*** - f to launch file manager, Ctrl - Tux - f to do the same, but with root priveledges.
Alt, like the name suggests, is either used to "alternate" something, like perhaps a toggle, or it is used as an alternative where that particular key combination (without the alt) is already taken by something else, but no other suitable alternative key had been found. one example of this in squishboom is the package manager and partition editor, both mapped to p. as package management is likely the more commonly used, it gets Tux-p, while the likely less often used partition editor is assigned the Tux-Alt-p.
Tux, as the more sherlock holmes / quincey / ironside / dunnaway among you may have already guessed, is for things relating to the opperating system... or more accurately/commonly, the window manager. like for starting applications, adjusting transparencies, switching desktops....
...well, sort of. it's an imperfect system, as the underlying crunchbang original controls were pretty much all kept intact so to preserve useability and workflow for those switching from crunchbang to squishboom. squishboom's interface can be described with reasonable accuracy as crunchbang plus.
ooookay, enough waffle, to the point, here are the links to my squishboom** configs:
http://omploader.org/vNDY3Yg/digitssquishboomopenboxconfigs.tar.lzma
be advised, it may not all work, for example, there will be shortcuts in the rc.xml which will refer to applications not installed, and the autostart script will attempt to launch files which arent available. the menu.xml has been neglected quite a bit thnx to both my shortcuts, and the debian automenu included within it, which of course will not function in non debian/ubuntu based distros.
http://omploader.org/vNDY3aA/digitssquishboomtint2configs.tar.lzma
my tint2 config. maximising screen space usage, taking a leaf out of the book of tiling window management. :)
http://omploader.org/vNDY3aw/digitssquishboomconkys.tar.lzma
and the conkys. as nice an idea as the keybinding conkyswitcher is, its not essential for me at the moment with my system of shortcuts i can fathom easily enough without the cheatsheet.
http://omploader.org/vNDY3ZQ/digitssquishboomtildaconfig.tar.lzma
i've also included my tilda config, because i always install it, and its becoming an all too familiar experience reconfiguring it in every distro i install.
okies, that'll do the job.
*crunchayon is the nickname i gave to a minimal sabayon 5.1 install, configured to be like as is in squishboom (or crunchbang if you like).
** squishboom originally being my crunchbang adaption inspired by crunchbang, and attempting to take that which i liked about crunchbang most, further.
*** Tux is name i give to what you may know of as the "Super" or "Windows" button/key. mine has a little "Tux" the penguin picture on it. :)
Monday, 12 April 2010
digits personal notes on archbang (2, rc2, 64bit, live cd)
searchmonkey
very glad it's included, but i wonder if it could have it's default text editor, folder explorer and web browser already configured, out of the box.
conky & conkyswitcher
so very chuffed with the inclusion of the super+x to toggle the keyboard shortcut hints.
~this little tidbit, to my perception, is a great exemplar of what happens when you take a little of what makes crunchbang great, and a little of what makes arch great, and mate the two. :)
last time i booted into the live system:
after copying to ram, and installing a few little apps i like, (tilda & gimp), and taking a little look at the installer, amidst making some archbang graphics, with little prior warning, i could no longer make changes to the graphics i was working on, error messages popping up familiar to me when in my other system while running off.
this time, running install, i got a message from sed, how it couldnt read from xorg, just after the install packages segment.
everything else seemed to go well. very impressed with the nuances of the installation method. ... though it did all chew up a little more ram than i was expecting it would, still well within acceptible levels for this machine.
i dont miss the arch cursor from archbang2 rc1. ;) but it was a nice treat to be shown it. seeing it first time around inspired me to make my own little cursor... a small mushroom, with a purple glow. ;)
i've got a similar sense of keen excitement about perhaps making archbang my metadistro, my base distro, from which i start to configure my system, as i got when first installing my first distro, or the first time i installed slackware, or when i first realised what a gift crunchbang was for me. i expect archbang to probably double performance over an ubuntu based system, and further deepen my education in linux ways... specifically, the arch way. :)
much thanks to the archbangers for providing this very welcome leg up to more conveniently enter the flow of the arch way.
this is similar to my gratitude a few years back when i discovered sabayon, the convenient leg-up into gentoo, though perhaps the biggest difference here is, little and large. sabayon, at least when i hooked up with it in version 3.4 FULL, had the closest of any distro i had encountered, to including everything including the kitchen sink. archbang... quite the opposite. after my richly rewarding experiences with a distro like sabayon, where i like to sum it up as "the o'brien way" (born from one comment he made to a cardassian: "I wouldnt like to be caught without a third backup"), i got to know better my options, develop my preferences... so now i feel comfortable trying it on in a more cardassian way, where everything "should just work". i know it wont, ;) i know i'll encounter both pebcak errors, and issues i have to resolve myself from using a system that prides itself on being bleeding edge. thats all part of the excitement, the exhileration of the voyage i am choosing.
ho ho ho... and this started out so neat and concise. oh well, glad i got lost in ramble there, just to make sure this post lives up to my intro blurb to this blog. ;)
suffice to say... i expect mentions of archbang will make more appearances in digit's linux blog from now on. not to mention, ... use as base in my squishboom plans, of which i intend to convert my installation scripts to be archbang compatable as well as the crunchbang compatable version. woohoo... excuse me while i let this out uncensorred... FUCK I LOVE LINUX! lol. freedomware ftw.
searchmonkey
very glad it's included, but i wonder if it could have it's default text editor, folder explorer and web browser already configured, out of the box.
conky & conkyswitcher
so very chuffed with the inclusion of the super+x to toggle the keyboard shortcut hints.
~this little tidbit, to my perception, is a great exemplar of what happens when you take a little of what makes crunchbang great, and a little of what makes arch great, and mate the two. :)
last time i booted into the live system:
after copying to ram, and installing a few little apps i like, (tilda & gimp), and taking a little look at the installer, amidst making some archbang graphics, with little prior warning, i could no longer make changes to the graphics i was working on, error messages popping up familiar to me when in my other system while running off.
this time, running install, i got a message from sed, how it couldnt read from xorg, just after the install packages segment.
everything else seemed to go well. very impressed with the nuances of the installation method. ... though it did all chew up a little more ram than i was expecting it would, still well within acceptible levels for this machine.
i dont miss the arch cursor from archbang2 rc1. ;) but it was a nice treat to be shown it. seeing it first time around inspired me to make my own little cursor... a small mushroom, with a purple glow. ;)
i've got a similar sense of keen excitement about perhaps making archbang my metadistro, my base distro, from which i start to configure my system, as i got when first installing my first distro, or the first time i installed slackware, or when i first realised what a gift crunchbang was for me. i expect archbang to probably double performance over an ubuntu based system, and further deepen my education in linux ways... specifically, the arch way. :)
much thanks to the archbangers for providing this very welcome leg up to more conveniently enter the flow of the arch way.
this is similar to my gratitude a few years back when i discovered sabayon, the convenient leg-up into gentoo, though perhaps the biggest difference here is, little and large. sabayon, at least when i hooked up with it in version 3.4 FULL, had the closest of any distro i had encountered, to including everything including the kitchen sink. archbang... quite the opposite. after my richly rewarding experiences with a distro like sabayon, where i like to sum it up as "the o'brien way" (born from one comment he made to a cardassian: "I wouldnt like to be caught without a third backup"), i got to know better my options, develop my preferences... so now i feel comfortable trying it on in a more cardassian way, where everything "should just work". i know it wont, ;) i know i'll encounter both pebcak errors, and issues i have to resolve myself from using a system that prides itself on being bleeding edge. thats all part of the excitement, the exhileration of the voyage i am choosing.
ho ho ho... and this started out so neat and concise. oh well, glad i got lost in ramble there, just to make sure this post lives up to my intro blurb to this blog. ;)
suffice to say... i expect mentions of archbang will make more appearances in digit's linux blog from now on. not to mention, ... use as base in my squishboom plans, of which i intend to convert my installation scripts to be archbang compatable as well as the crunchbang compatable version. woohoo... excuse me while i let this out uncensorred... FUCK I LOVE LINUX! lol. freedomware ftw.
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
no squish, but i spied my old friend dux.
yeah yeah, i still havnt officially released squishboom. :P :P
.*
side tracked with other stuff.
not least, archbang. :P if it would work on my system. well... it did.. but now it doesnt again. lol i remember those days, early with my 'nix honeymoon.
A!
also not least, crunchayon. i did almost the most basic install i could off the sabayon 5.1 games dvd. and started crunchbanging it. it's been mostly a pleasing experience. .... in the way ointment with flies is mostly pleasing.
#y
but while i was looking around for a usb stick i could use to test out archbang 2 on, via unetbootin, to see if live usb would work friendlier than native cd, i stumbled across, on my three 2gig drives:
1. wilburdavix ( the second linux distro i made for a friend. this one based on davix, the prior, on a stripped slax )
2. dux ( 5th incarnation of my own personal lightweight distro with just the main key features i seek.... except wifi fails! gur. )
3. squishboom 'nix ( a version i was gonna make, that has a pile of extra tweaks outside the purview of the effects from the pris enacted upon a crunchbang. ...but then i went n messed it up before turning it into a ISO, and put some personal data on it (ie, everyone would sign into my icq, msn and aim, and skype has my name there too ... if i hadnt done that, this version mighta been the one that made it to official release ).
the dux, i'm really quite happy with.
infact, just this very second as i type this, i think i should make a slaxboom. or at least a crax / crunchslax / slaxbang / slang ... whatever u wanna call a crunchbang-alike-slax. but the boom, meaning it'd b like squishboom. mmmm.
anyways, the dux is kinda... um... well, it just works so sweet. much thnx to slax, and kde and ... yeah. the rest. i'm just chuffed cos i had been having a pesky ntfs external play up, but here little dux is ready to go n play my playlist inside it. :D gosh i love it when things just work soooo much more effortlessly than u expect... and sad to say, i still think u get that experience most often, most easily, with kde3.5* still.
i love making the lightweight stuff.... but even kde can be reasonably lightweight.
but the really lightweight stuff i mean... like trying to make a pure cli distro that has dwm or musca just to save from the pain of twm for when u really need gui.
... actually, most of my time has been spent between doing some graphic design stuf for u-praise, & learning gentoo in vain hope i might be capable of producing a gentoo based crunchbang-like live-installer iso.
i would b a god if i pulled that off.
but then, if it were that easy, someone would have done it already... wouldnt they?
maybe i should stick to slax and slitaz and suse-studio and ubuntu remastersys dist.
anyways... just blowin of some steam.
wanted to make note of my "dux" distro somewhere. it's the one i been developing the longest... even longer than squishboom... cept i never planned to be releasing it so much as i have with squishboom.
would really rather if i had faster upload. then i would get dux v.005, wilburforce linux, wilburdavix, squishboom, puffinOS, GIMPstick pure, GIMPstick dirty, and the rest once made, all uploaded, so folks can get a grip on them, rather than get blasted with all my vapourware. ^_^
~ yeah... its true, i do actually do stuff for real. it's not all dreaming. lol.
ahhh... dux. wonderful. v happy to have my hd playing nice again. nice to know i can do this now anytime it does that again. rather than have to attatch it to a windows pc and restart it three times.
.*
side tracked with other stuff.
not least, archbang. :P if it would work on my system. well... it did.. but now it doesnt again. lol i remember those days, early with my 'nix honeymoon.
A!
also not least, crunchayon. i did almost the most basic install i could off the sabayon 5.1 games dvd. and started crunchbanging it. it's been mostly a pleasing experience. .... in the way ointment with flies is mostly pleasing.
#y
but while i was looking around for a usb stick i could use to test out archbang 2 on, via unetbootin, to see if live usb would work friendlier than native cd, i stumbled across, on my three 2gig drives:
1. wilburdavix ( the second linux distro i made for a friend. this one based on davix, the prior, on a stripped slax )
2. dux ( 5th incarnation of my own personal lightweight distro with just the main key features i seek.... except wifi fails! gur. )
3. squishboom 'nix ( a version i was gonna make, that has a pile of extra tweaks outside the purview of the effects from the pris enacted upon a crunchbang. ...but then i went n messed it up before turning it into a ISO, and put some personal data on it (ie, everyone would sign into my icq, msn and aim, and skype has my name there too ... if i hadnt done that, this version mighta been the one that made it to official release ).
the dux, i'm really quite happy with.
infact, just this very second as i type this, i think i should make a slaxboom. or at least a crax / crunchslax / slaxbang / slang ... whatever u wanna call a crunchbang-alike-slax. but the boom, meaning it'd b like squishboom. mmmm.
anyways, the dux is kinda... um... well, it just works so sweet. much thnx to slax, and kde and ... yeah. the rest. i'm just chuffed cos i had been having a pesky ntfs external play up, but here little dux is ready to go n play my playlist inside it. :D gosh i love it when things just work soooo much more effortlessly than u expect... and sad to say, i still think u get that experience most often, most easily, with kde3.5* still.
i love making the lightweight stuff.... but even kde can be reasonably lightweight.
but the really lightweight stuff i mean... like trying to make a pure cli distro that has dwm or musca just to save from the pain of twm for when u really need gui.
... actually, most of my time has been spent between doing some graphic design stuf for u-praise, & learning gentoo in vain hope i might be capable of producing a gentoo based crunchbang-like live-installer iso.
i would b a god if i pulled that off.
but then, if it were that easy, someone would have done it already... wouldnt they?
maybe i should stick to slax and slitaz and suse-studio and ubuntu remastersys dist.
anyways... just blowin of some steam.
wanted to make note of my "dux" distro somewhere. it's the one i been developing the longest... even longer than squishboom... cept i never planned to be releasing it so much as i have with squishboom.
would really rather if i had faster upload. then i would get dux v.005, wilburforce linux, wilburdavix, squishboom, puffinOS, GIMPstick pure, GIMPstick dirty, and the rest once made, all uploaded, so folks can get a grip on them, rather than get blasted with all my vapourware. ^_^
~ yeah... its true, i do actually do stuff for real. it's not all dreaming. lol.
ahhh... dux. wonderful. v happy to have my hd playing nice again. nice to know i can do this now anytime it does that again. rather than have to attatch it to a windows pc and restart it three times.
Friday, 5 February 2010
Konqueror is Still the Best Browser & Best File Manager.
....
well... that mighta seemed uncharacteristic of me to say that, if you only know me as the guy who raves on about the likes of slitaz, crunchbang, inx, minuet, kolibri, icaros, arch, crux, motho ke botho (or whatever). but it's true, when i moved to open source; to gnu; to linux, it was to suse, and kde (though they [old novel] do tend to do equal justice to both the biggies, gnome and kde). besides me doing my bit about yast, it was konqueror, that most impressed me. when everyone else was either still stuck in the wintard bin using explorer, or a few raving about firefox, it was konqueror that i always lauded for it's greatness.
to this day there are things you can "just do" in konqueror, that take loadsa fumbling or addons with firefox, or cant even do at all as far as i can see. ok sure, the addons can extend firefox to be capable of some pretty neat tricks that rival konqueror's. but konqueror does it out of the box, wherever you go, there are a few coolnesses that konqueror has in spades beyond any other.
the view, to start somewhere relatively simple. can you split your window in your browser? or your file manager? konqueror is both, and does both effortlessly. did i mention you can have your terminal in there too? one can pretty much live in just konqueror, much like folks claim is so for emacs i've heard... i want to know where the konqueror fanboys hang out. idk if they are on the kde4 bandwaggon yet, but it's not for me, at least not yet, and i dont think ever.
konqueror as a web browser can even tell the websites that you are.. well, any identity config you like... a ppc mac using explorer? sure, tell the websites you visit thats what you are. :) its an amusing little feature for some, but to others, a comforting extra little trick to add to your security.
as a file manager, it's the best tool i've ever used for ftp.
and did i mention you can have a terminal in there too? :D
hey, if you're reading this, and love konqueror too, and wanna point out the other cool stuff it does, please pitch in... cos as much as i love the teenyness of the likes of pcmanfm, and midori (or even "links2 -g"), it's just not the same.
...
dont worry everyone, i'm not going to bloat up squishboom with konqueror. u wanna do that, u can do that, but it's not going in as default.
oh yeah, squishboom development has resumed, n i'm just gunning straight for putting something together that's releasable, then see what feedback it receives, see what i missed, what i broke, etc.
.*
ps, big shout out n much love to tha other peeps with 'bang projects on the go. willxtreme, bluejeans, lovin yer archbang n squeezebang stuff... do remember to make it like the crunchbang, n not the personal cloggage, less is more is what i'm sayin. ;) lol. n i aint practicing what i preach, but then, i'm not trying to make another crunchbang-on-a-diferent-base (at least not with squishboom)... i'm creating a performance tweek and interface augment mainly. ;) different goals. i do like the going wild by stripping it back to cli apps only. especially after trying INX. anyone want to learn linux skills you can take anywhere, and see how welcoming the command line actually is once you get shown a couple things in a fun n friendly way? yeah, INX is for you! lol. naw, seriously, i have added INX tutorials to my list of things i think should be mandatory on the school curriculum... for a while the list consisted of:
Item 1 : Install Slackware.
but now it's also populated with, as i said, "Item 2 : Put an INX CD in yout computer and restart it, n follow the instructions and menus. :)"
and in case anyone is not getting it (which i'll be surprised if they're still reading..)
this is FREE software.
FREE!
FREE BEER!
FREE SPEECH!
FREEEEEEEEDOM!
ok?
k.
well... that mighta seemed uncharacteristic of me to say that, if you only know me as the guy who raves on about the likes of slitaz, crunchbang, inx, minuet, kolibri, icaros, arch, crux, motho ke botho (or whatever). but it's true, when i moved to open source; to gnu; to linux, it was to suse, and kde (though they [old novel] do tend to do equal justice to both the biggies, gnome and kde). besides me doing my bit about yast, it was konqueror, that most impressed me. when everyone else was either still stuck in the wintard bin using explorer, or a few raving about firefox, it was konqueror that i always lauded for it's greatness.
to this day there are things you can "just do" in konqueror, that take loadsa fumbling or addons with firefox, or cant even do at all as far as i can see. ok sure, the addons can extend firefox to be capable of some pretty neat tricks that rival konqueror's. but konqueror does it out of the box, wherever you go, there are a few coolnesses that konqueror has in spades beyond any other.
the view, to start somewhere relatively simple. can you split your window in your browser? or your file manager? konqueror is both, and does both effortlessly. did i mention you can have your terminal in there too? one can pretty much live in just konqueror, much like folks claim is so for emacs i've heard... i want to know where the konqueror fanboys hang out. idk if they are on the kde4 bandwaggon yet, but it's not for me, at least not yet, and i dont think ever.
konqueror as a web browser can even tell the websites that you are.. well, any identity config you like... a ppc mac using explorer? sure, tell the websites you visit thats what you are. :) its an amusing little feature for some, but to others, a comforting extra little trick to add to your security.
as a file manager, it's the best tool i've ever used for ftp.
and did i mention you can have a terminal in there too? :D
hey, if you're reading this, and love konqueror too, and wanna point out the other cool stuff it does, please pitch in... cos as much as i love the teenyness of the likes of pcmanfm, and midori (or even "links2 -g"), it's just not the same.
...
dont worry everyone, i'm not going to bloat up squishboom with konqueror. u wanna do that, u can do that, but it's not going in as default.
oh yeah, squishboom development has resumed, n i'm just gunning straight for putting something together that's releasable, then see what feedback it receives, see what i missed, what i broke, etc.
.*
ps, big shout out n much love to tha other peeps with 'bang projects on the go. willxtreme, bluejeans, lovin yer archbang n squeezebang stuff... do remember to make it like the crunchbang, n not the personal cloggage, less is more is what i'm sayin. ;) lol. n i aint practicing what i preach, but then, i'm not trying to make another crunchbang-on-a-diferent-base (at least not with squishboom)... i'm creating a performance tweek and interface augment mainly. ;) different goals. i do like the going wild by stripping it back to cli apps only. especially after trying INX. anyone want to learn linux skills you can take anywhere, and see how welcoming the command line actually is once you get shown a couple things in a fun n friendly way? yeah, INX is for you! lol. naw, seriously, i have added INX tutorials to my list of things i think should be mandatory on the school curriculum... for a while the list consisted of:
Item 1 : Install Slackware.
but now it's also populated with, as i said, "Item 2 : Put an INX CD in yout computer and restart it, n follow the instructions and menus. :)"
and in case anyone is not getting it (which i'll be surprised if they're still reading..)
this is FREE software.
FREE!
FREE BEER!
FREE SPEECH!
FREEEEEEEEDOM!
ok?
k.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
quick squishboom update and orklug!!!
squishboomwise.
got a clearer picture of what needs doing for squishboom.
revising pris (the post reinstallation script) into prip (the post reinstallation program), where config files will be stored online and added with a wget, as well as stripping it down to be cleaner, and also adding more elaborate and user friendly options learned from studying crunchbang's alternative installation method.
but all of that's been put on a short term temporary hold while i help with some initial adminnery for...
orklug!
orklug being the shorthand of Orkney Linux User Group. much thnx to andrew who really took to the idea and has been the principle initiator in getting us going. i may have been the first to throw the idea out there, but it wouldnt have happened n gotten so far if it werent for aorkwa.
so anyways...
now we've got our wiki on the go:
http://orklug.org.uk
our (low trafic) mailing list currently on:
http://groups.google.com/group/orklug
~ though theres talk of soon moving to gnu's mailman.
a presence on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=198032207797
and on identica:
http://identi.ca/group/orklug
and we even have our very own irc chatroom now too on freenode, which can be accessed via a simple web interface here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=orklug
or of course whatever your preference of irc application.
(i'm just being a sucker for convenience and using pidgin, since i already have a handful of other chat protocols i use on that)
so come say hi on freenode #orklug
our number are still small, but considering we've only really been properly at it for about a day now, i say we're going pretty strong, n off to a good start.
wont be long before the conversation turns to "lets organise a meet!"
:D
happy days. :)
got a clearer picture of what needs doing for squishboom.
revising pris (the post reinstallation script) into prip (the post reinstallation program), where config files will be stored online and added with a wget, as well as stripping it down to be cleaner, and also adding more elaborate and user friendly options learned from studying crunchbang's alternative installation method.
but all of that's been put on a short term temporary hold while i help with some initial adminnery for...
orklug!
orklug being the shorthand of Orkney Linux User Group. much thnx to andrew who really took to the idea and has been the principle initiator in getting us going. i may have been the first to throw the idea out there, but it wouldnt have happened n gotten so far if it werent for aorkwa.
so anyways...
now we've got our wiki on the go:
http://orklug.org.uk
our (low trafic) mailing list currently on:
http://groups.google.com/group/orklug
~ though theres talk of soon moving to gnu's mailman.
a presence on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=198032207797
and on identica:
http://identi.ca/group/orklug
and we even have our very own irc chatroom now too on freenode, which can be accessed via a simple web interface here: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=orklug
or of course whatever your preference of irc application.
(i'm just being a sucker for convenience and using pidgin, since i already have a handful of other chat protocols i use on that)
so come say hi on freenode #orklug
our number are still small, but considering we've only really been properly at it for about a day now, i say we're going pretty strong, n off to a good start.
wont be long before the conversation turns to "lets organise a meet!"
:D
happy days. :)
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