The BOFH stands for something I am not able to print. Suffice to sa that there are 2 different swearwords in the title. It is located here. I think you need to read it. There are a lot of them though.
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March 6, 2009 • 7:38 pm 0
Switching to the zsh SHell
As you know, I have a laptop running Ubuntu 8.10. A while ago, I installed the shell, zsh. I had first heard of zsh from the live CD distro, SystemRescueCd. It used a nice installation of zsh, and I wanted to use it on my Ubuntu machine. I installed zsh, and went through the configuration. I must have done something wrong, because the zsh that started the next time I started zsh looked nothing like the zsh that I saw on the live CD. I abandoned the project for some time, until I thought of an answer. I would start SystemRescueCD, copy the zsh config files to a pendrive, copy the config files from the pendrive to the Ubuntu laptop, place them in the correct spot, and hope. It worked perfectly. I now have a working version of zsh, and it has become my shell of choice! It’s power, flexability, coloring, and command auto- correction has made me a fan of zsh. I love it!. It’s so fun! -Indigo
Filed under: Computers, Linux, Technology
February 20, 2009 • 10:52 am 0
RubyCrypt Update
RubyCrypt Update! I am currently working on a new version, 1.2, and it may have a new feature, support for STDIN!. maybe. Still working on it.
Filed under: RubyCrypt
• 6:31 am 1
Bespin
For those who don’t know (and no, it is not because you are stupid, this product is relativity hard to find.) Bespin is a web based cloud IDE. That means you code on this website. I don’t like this. As far as I can tell, you can’t upload your own code. In fact, there doesn’t seem like there are any ways you can actualy get any code other than your own on the site. Getting your own code on an IDE SO YOU CAN PROGRAM WITH IT is relativly important, and I personaly don’t want to code only with the examples. So, while Bespin may be important in the future, and it certainly has potential, it isn’t ready for prime time. Heck, it only at version 0.1.1 , Naughy Nimbus.
Filed under: Programing, Technology, Web stuff
December 29, 2008 • 10:32 am 0
Update
So, there has been some descussionn on the interblag (yes, I read xkcd) about KDE 4. Some people love it, some people hate it, and I don’t like it. It might be the wierd start menu, or the inability to change mouse settings, or the fact that my heart is one size too small. What ever it is, it doesn’t fit.
I went on a window manager rampage, as soon as I learned how to choose the window manager from the login screen. I also install xfce, and decided not to use it, also for the inability to change mouse settings. On all linuxes except ones specialy configured, the mouse on my Acer moves at blinding speed, making the laptop unusable for about 15 minutes, after which I have sort of agusted to it, and it now only over shoots buttons half of the time, as oposed to 90 percent of the time. This also happens in puppy linux.
Windows is completely broken. It is unable to resist suspending the laptop for 3 seconds. I believe is is something to do with the LCD cable, the part the acer people replaced in Texas. So, now I hate windows. Bad windows, BAD!
-Indigo
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December 25, 2008 • 10:10 am 0
.bin files on Linux
Merry Christmas!
As you may know, I got the acer back today, and I instaled linux, ubuntu to be exact, and I needed to install java. It came in .bin file type, and ubuntu hadn’t a clue what to do with it. Now, once, when I was downloading java, i accidentaly viewed it as a text file instead of downloading it. Well, the first part I recognized as a bash script. Following the bash script, was some inane giberish. Now, what do you do to this? Well, first, we know it’s a script, but it doesn’t have the permissions to run it. So, we have to use chmod. It doesn’t matter what the permissions you put on it, as long as you can exicute it. My favorite is:
chmod 711 ...
This enables you to read write, and exicute, but everybody else can only read. Next, we have to go into the terminal. Navigate to where you have the .bin file, and type:
./[the .bin file]
In the case of the java file, you are presented with a long license. You should probbly read this. After that, the ask you to agree to the liscense. After that, when you say yes, it will do what it takes to place the archive in the folder. Done
-Indigo
edit: it turns out that these are called “self extracting archives.” I didn’t know this at the creation of the article/
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December 21, 2008 • 9:29 am 0
Acer Laptop
Hello!
So, I recently got an Acer netbook, an Acer Aspire One, to be exact. It was BoB, or Broken out of Box. The screen was VERY wierd. Only about half of it worked, with the other half either showing nothing or mirroring pixels. Quite wierd. So I sent in in for repair, and I haven’t got it back yet. Can’t wait for it, I am trying to choose between installing Fedora 10, and Ubuntu. Anybody have anything to weigh in on that?
-Indigo
November 21, 2008 • 8:52 am 0
RubyCrypt 1.0.1
November 16, 2008 • 2:23 pm 0
Gaming Idea
So, I have this idea for a game. Now, because I can’t have everybody who visits this website sign an NDA, so, all I can say is that it has something to do with history, and writing it. I should have a pdf about it out soon.
-Indigo
Filed under: Gaming
October 23, 2008 • 1:29 pm 0
Life now
hi all
As most of you are, I am sure, in school, so am I. School is alright, etc. I am reading ghe third book of the Inheritance trilogy, Brisinger, and I might beat the record for reading it in my circles of three days, cool. I don’t know if you know, but I am making great use of Google Docs for word prossessing, because if I used word, the best solution they (the tech people at my school) have is “email it to your self,” which I hate because it gums up my inbox, and use a flash stick, which I might lose. Anyway, so long.
-Indigo
-Geeklob
Filed under: Life, Technology
