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Terry@dixie$ cat lj.post
*Finally* started work on updating my laptop today; got world/kernel done. Set to work on the third party software, this tiem out employing portmaster for the task. To conserve CPU cycles, since that’s my laptops principal bellyache (along with the shitty graphics card); I’m currently running from a screen session on a vtty (i.e. Text Mode only).

For me, that’s actually not a big loss: only programs I’m missing out on are pidgin and firefox; and I _hate_ firefox these days. Most of the /good/ stuff I use all the time just happens to be console user friendly 😉
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great surprise this morning, I’m off today and working tomorrow instead (glad I didn’t make plans lol). Since I had portmaster fetch distfiles a head of time, that also means I can continue my laptops software updates without lagging my game play to much hehe.

Right now I’ve got Dixie perched on my stand, and a SSH connection to her – with GNU Screen running, so I can always detach the session and reconnect to things from another box, or straight from Dixie’s console. I don’t think portmaster can be left unobserved as long as the portupgrade utility, but I think it is doing quite a good job of things: the need for a little hand holding aside. (I’m not interested in braving the “unattended mode” warning on our first date ^_^). I’ve also noted that perl modules can make upgrading perl a pain in the rear end; probably will have to take a manifest manually, then setup the automata to handle the unautomated part of the update procedure. All in all though, it’s been very painless.

Because of the way Vim implements Perl/Python/Ruby/probably the Tcl support; and my chose to build a ‘threaded perl’, I need to rebuild vim before it can be used. Never the less, I managed to fix the show-stopping bug in tpsh’s new expand_quotes() function — one darn question mark ‘?’ was missing; the difference making the regex non greedy. Although I rarely use any of the “extensions” in nvi’s command set, their chose of making :Next open in a separate display window sometimes comes in handy.

I’ve also been contemplating the sam text editor, as a possible replacement for ed/ex; the Q is does it offer suitable history support. My only complaint about ed and ex, is you can’t do thinks like ^NCR to repeat the last command (I wonder if GNU ed might’ve stuck that in, mm). Using vims “special” ex mode via gQ rather then vim -e or ‘Q’ gains all of the niceties of vim’s :ex command line, but if ones gonna run a visual editor that big; why go line mode without a pure TTY? lol.

FreeBSD dixie.launchmodem.com 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #3: Mon Apr 6 22:19:37 UTC 2009 root@dixie.launchmodem.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VIPER i386

Really, I’ve gotten virtually nothing done all day… but hey, I’ve had a chance to relax a bit; well compared to normal :-/

Yippee-Kai-Yay !!! I’m off work Friday xD

Just errands to run… bah! Oh well, at least I don’t have to get up early lol.

Finally home from work, just one more day to go until I’m off for a bit…

Been raining so heavy, Burt the hunting dog had to be brought in from outside; boss warned he might bark and bear his teeth since he doesn’t know us, but all he did was look at me as if to say, “pet me, I hate this weather” lol. I usually get along well with animals (y).

Most people don’t care much for this weather, but I like the rain, I don’t feel so depressed.. I’d rather go for a nice stroll lol. Rain doesn’t really bother me, just another side of nature; it’s lightning that concerns me! Lighting is however beyond my control, so I don’t worry to much about it. I was standing in the kitchen today , a string of windows at my back from my 3 to my 9 o’clock not even a metre away. The whole room turned blue and I listened intently for the clap of thunder. Sounded almost like an air strike in the distance, shaking the room. I fear for others more then I fear about my fate; if GOD wants me dead, it don’t matter if I’m standing near a window or in a vault, if my times up the ‘where’ would be the least of anyone’s worries 8=).

mm, when’s lunch

Lately I feel like, I spend all of my time either working or working on something :-/.

     i3lack0p | so is there an exit script for blackbox?      │
 SAS_Spidey01 | 'exit script' ?                               │
     i3lack0p | yea when a user request to log out of a       │
                blackbox seesion is there a script that will  │
                execute                                       │
     i3lack0p | before the user leaves                        │
 SAS_Spidey01 | somehow I think blackbox enter and exit       │
                scripts are delegated to the 11th power of X  │
     i3lack0p | what                                          │
     i3lack0p | .blackboxrc is the startup script is there an │
                exit script                                   │
             -*- SAS_Spidey01 bangs head against wall         │

note: Blackbox = Window Manager for X11; .blackboxrc = x resource file which is != a script.

• finish sas work
• finish implementing history commands/HISTFILE in tpsh
• take a shower
• hexedit firefox3 > /dev/hell/level/7
• figure out the least painful route of doing a crap load of software updates on my laptop

spent most of my day in the proving grounds, and a little time on the hallway. Really, I was rather surprised: my first trip down the hallway I was making good accuracy, good pace (for an old fart), until I got to the nearly bullet proof potted plant and the 9mm roller skater next to the hostage lol.

Willow laid down on the floor eating something and I called out, “did you give her a carrot or something?” (the Vet Tech proscribed healthy-snacks lol) and Ma answered back No, as the dog ran out of the room.

I found Willow on the floor behind the cache trying to eat it, but didn’t see it… to me it looked like it might’ve been a big piece of bird seed, I couldn’t get it out of her mouth so I commanded her to “split it”, she did…. surprise, surprise – it was Ma’s Vitamin E softgel! She did it once with a calcium pill, that looked just like her interceptor (worm-preventive) pill; but hid it because it didn’t taste good enough to chew haha; after that she stopped eating her interceptor like candy. This time, I guess the vitamin E must have tasted good :

“Bad giir… good girl for spitting it out, but bad girl for taking it!”

So I swapped it with a marrow bone, and Willows all the happier lmao.

Dogs are just like kids, gotta watch them close or don’t be shocked at what ends up in their mouths when you’re not looking lol.

(07:04:54) noles: is git is a british slang for stupid?
(07:05:57) me: always thought it was synonymous with obnoxious pain in the ass, but hey am an obnoxious American pain in the ass >_>
(07:06:06) noles: brilliant!
(07:06:13) me: xD

who rewrote my work scheduler in brainfuck?

I have a strange sense of humour, lol.