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Fri Nov 8 03:11:30 UTC 2024
WTF?
Sun Oct 27 17:25:46 UTC 2024
I've been carrying an Otter-Messer 3 Rivet knife for a bit now
and it is a pretty neat knife. Recently, I have been more
interested in slip joint knifes as opposed to locking, folding
knives. For my uses, a slip joint knife does everything I need
it to do. For harder user tasks I also carry a belt knife
(Esee Pr-4) and a Leatherman Rebar.
Thu Oct 10 03:41:47 UTC 2024
Testing out my .plan script...
Thu Oct 10 03:38:20 UTC 2024
Not too much to say these days. I took another crack at trying
to use emacs over the last few weeks. All I can say about emacs
is that I don't think I am ever destined to understand it.
I don't feel like the effort is worth the potential payoff.
Thu Sep 12 04:01:14 UTC 2024
Since I started using CVS, one thing that for some reason I could
never seem to wrap my head around was putting all of $HOME in one
import. After much searching and trial and error I was able to do
it. I'm not sure if it was worth it. Here was my process:
There are a few things I addressed up front. I knew there were some
files and directories that I did not want to track (.cache, .mozilla,
etc.). I also knew there were some files that I did not want keywords
to expand on. I add all of those to ~/.cvsignore.
Then I crossed my fingers and imoprted $HOME
cvs import -m "Iniital import into CVS" home jss start
I made backups, then removed everything that was initially imported.
Then I had to check out home to $HOME. This was the part I couldn't
figure out for some reason.
cd ~
cd ..
cvs co -d jss home
That managed to checkout my import. After that it was editing my
~/.cvsignore and removing the files/directories that I wanted to add
manually.
Thu Sep 12 03:54:49 UTC 2024
Changed my plan script a bit so let's see if it works.
Wed Sep 4 01:21:59 UTC 2024
Still using a chromebook for a lot of my computing. I think
the crostini environment does linux integration pretty well.
So far it has been a pretty pleasant experience.
Mon Aug 12 03:23:42 UTC 2024
I was listening to a podcast recently and one of the hosts was
talking about working within constraints. I have went through
phases before where I tried limiting my computing to things
like POSIX sh and whatnot but it never really stuck.
Recently, I dug out my old chromebook and decided to start playing
around with it. After powerwashing it, I removed basically everything
but the terminal and the chrome browser and then set up the crostini
environment. Since then, I have been basically using it as my main
computer, ssh'ing into SDF as needed.
I went into this little experiment wanted to install as few extra
packages as possible and just use what is provided by the
crostini environment. Here are some of my observations:
* I had to install ed
* I had to install gcc and make
* I had to install rsync
* I had to install cvs so I could work with my html directory on SDF
* The battery life is pretty great
* The screen is pretty blah
I have been using bash with a minimal bashrc which is a bit of a
departure from the ksh that I am used to. I have been doing all
of my scripting in POSIX sh and using shellcheck to make sure I
am being compliant. It has been kind of fun. You can do quite a bit
with a chromebook and a shell.
Thu Aug 1 04:58:31 UTC 2024
"It's not that using ed(1) is the pinnacle of systems administration
achievement; it's the minimum requirement."
Mon Jul 22 02:41:45 UTC 2024
So I wanted to be able to see if there were new posts on
undeadly.org without having to go to the website:
#!/bin/ksh
# awk line comes from: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/72749
ftp -o - "https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=rss" \
| sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' \
-e 's/<!\[\CDATA\[//g' \
-e 's/Read more…//g' \
-e 's/\]\]>//g' \
-e 's/^M//g' \
| awk '!NF { if (++n <= 2) print; next }; { n=0;print }' \
| fmt | less -n +11
I added the following to ~/.Xdefaults to make selecting links
in XTerm easier:
XTerm*charClass: 33:48,36-47:48,58-59:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
Wed Jul 3 18:30:29 UTC 2024
My Top 5 Folding Knives
1) Spyderco Stretch 2 K390
2) Spyderco Police 4 G10 K390
3) Chris Reeve Sebenza 21 Insingo Blade
4) Benchmade 940
5) Victorinox Outrider
My Top 3 Fixed Blades
1) Esee Camplore CR2.5
2) Esee Camplore PR4
3) Esee Sencillo A2
Tue Jul 2 03:55:59 UTC 2024
It's been awhile since I've posted anything. To be fair, I haven't
really had too much to say. Work has kept me pretty busy. I do have
this week off though, so that is nice.
Sun May 26 21:47:31 UTC 2024
Some thoughts...
* I script in #!/bin/ksh
* POSIX at one time mattered to me. But as time has gone on
I only write scripts for myself. So POSIX conformance doesn't
matter to me.
* When in doubt, use it from base.
* The modern web kind of sucks. A lot.
Sun May 26 21:46:10 UTC 2024
Disclaimer: I have had a few drinks today...
What does tmuxinator solve that a shell script does not?
Tue May 21 01:56:18 UTC 2024
I've been carrying the Outrider for a bit now. It's a good knife.
It *might* currently be my favorite SAK. I don't mind the size
although it is a little on the larger size (111mm).
Wed May 15 04:14:12 UTC 2024
It's been a bit. Really nothing has been going on. I picked up a
new knife, the Victorinox Outrider. I'm going to try it for a bit
as my main knife/multitool.
First impressions are pretty good so far. Decent sized blade. I
like the locking cap lifter and main blade.
Will update after I get some use out of it.
Sun Apr 28 07:11:22 UTC 2024
So it turns out it really wasn't super hard to figure out. That
said, I'm not super happy with it. But at least I know it is
possible.
function _cd {
\cd "$@" && [[ -e CVS ]] && cvs -qn up
}
alias cd=_cd
The problem with it is that since my CVS repos live on a remote
server I get impatient when I have to wait for it to "connect"
to run the cvs up command.
Sat Apr 27 16:01:33 UTC 2024
This is driving me nuts. What I want to do is whenver I cd into
a directory that is under CVS revision control I want to run
cvs -qn up. For whatever reason I cannot wrap my head around how
to make it work reliably everytime.
Fri Apr 26 02:39:38 UTC 2024
Not a whole lot going on. Switched up my EDC slightly.
Sebenza 21
Esee Sencillo
Leatherman Rebar
Casio GW6900
Opensea Leather Topsider
I've had the Sebenza for quite awhile but for whatever reason never
carried it much. Started carrying it again last week and I really
do enjoy it quite a bit.
Tue Apr 9 03:30:12 UTC 2024
So far I am really liking the Sencillo. I think it will definately
replace the CR 2.5 as my everyday fixed blade. Larger yes, but
extremely comfortable to use. Decent sheath from the factory.
Sun Mar 31 15:46:38 UTC 2024
Recently picked up an Esee Sencillo. Will see if this replaces
the Esee CR 2.5 as my EDC fixed blade. So far after a couple
of days I really like it. Sort of like an Izula/Izula II, but
a little bit nicer (better handle, slightly longer blade, etc.).
Sun Mar 24 04:12:15 UTC 2024
A way to check the status of SDF.org
#!/bin/ksh
ftp -o - https://www.sdf.org/status | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' | less
Sun Mar 24 00:05:54 UTC 2024
So I think I am pretty much settled into my new place. Things are
basically where I want them to be and this time I decided to set
up my desk and computer and everything in the garage. So far it
is working out nicely.
Wed Mar 20 03:13:13 UTC 2024
Been a little bit. I recently moved and didn't have access to my
computer for the last week or so. But now I do.
Thu Mar 7 05:27:39 UTC 2024
Decided to set the Spyderco K390 Stretch aside for a bit and try out a
different carry. I am going to see how things go carrying a Victorinox
Pioneer and a Esee PR4 for awhile.
Fri Mar 1 18:26:15 UTC 2024
I am sure there are fantastic reasons to write all of my scripts
for POSIX sh even if they are only for my own use. It just seems
like a lot of work.
Thu Feb 29 03:56:27 UTC 2024
Not a whole lot to talk about today. Just kind of worn out mentally.
Sat Feb 24 05:10:50 UTC 2024
Does anyone still use a gopher client with a 67 character limit?
Sat Feb 24 02:38:35 UTC 2024
Sometimes it is fun just to see how many places I can sync my .plan
with. So far I am up to my webpage, gopher and plan.cat.
Thu Feb 22 05:46:23 UTC 2024
I never really knew how many neat things you could do with the finger
protocol. It's pretty neat. I personally have always liked to use it
as my "blog", but knowing you can get the weather and things like that
makes it fun.
Wed Feb 21 04:18:16 UTC 2024
So I don't forget. Saw this today on plan.cat/~mlot
finger ^"city, wa"@graph.no
Mon Feb 19 03:35:38 UTC 2024
This was more of a pain in the ass than I was planning on. Getting it
to work the way I want on my home computer has been worse. On my
home computer there are only a few directories that I want to track.
Mainly the ones where the CVSROOT is on SDF.
_cd() {
if [[ -e $1/CVS ]]
then
\cd "$1" && cvs -qn up
else
\cd "$@"
fi
}
alias cd=_cd
My home version has some case statements to deal with $TERM since
I have some code to deal with window decorations. I don't like that I
have to use wildcards to match directories. It is just ugly.
Mon Feb 19 03:00:46 UTC 2024
Because for some reason I had a hard time finding just a list:
Overall Presidential Greatness Ratings and Rankings 2024
https://jss.taxreligion.org/u/prank2024
1 Lincoln
2 FDR
3 Washington
4 T Roosevelt
5 Jefferson
6 Truman
7 Obama
8 Eisenhower
9 LB Johnson
10 Kennedy
11 Madison
12 Clinton
13 J Adams
14 Biden
15 Wilson
16 Reagan
17 Grant
18 Monroe
19 GHW Bush
20 JQ Adams
21 Jackson
22 Carter
23 Taft
24 McKinley
25 Polk
26 Cleveland
27 Ford
28 Van Buren
29 Hayes
30 Garfield
31 Harrison
32 GW Bush
33 Arthur
34 Coolidge
35 Nixon
36 Hoover
37 Tyler
38 Taylor
39 Fillmore
40 Harding
41 Harrison
42 Pierce
43 Johnson
44 Buchanan
45 Trump
Sat Feb 17 22:41:10 UTC 2024
I decided I wanted to add some SomaFM stations to my radio script
#!/bin/ksh
trap '' INT
select i in Quit \
"aNONradio" \
"Sonic Universe" \
"Groove Salad Classic" \
"Secret Agent" \
"Mission Control"
do
case "$i" in
Quit) break ;;
"aNONradio")
mpg123 http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio
;;
"Sonic Universe")
mpg123 http://ice1.somafm.com/sonicuniverse-256-mp3
;;
"Groove Salad Classic")
mpg123 http://ice6.somafm.com/gsclassic-128-mp3
;;
"Secret Agent")
mpg123 http://ice6.somafm.com/secretagent-128-mp3
;;
"Mission Control")
mpg123 http://ice4.somafm.com/missioncontrol-128-mp3
;;
esac
done
Sat Feb 17 20:58:40 UTC 2024
How I listen to SDF aNONradio from the terminal
#!/bin/ksh
xterm -g 80x16+0+837 \
-T aNONradio \
-e mpg123 http://anonradio.net:8000/anonradio
Sat Feb 17 05:49:05 UTC 2024
EDC Update
Leatherman Rebar
Spyderco Stretch 2 K390
Esee CR2.5
Victorinox Farmer X
Casio GW6900
Open Sea Leather Topsider
Paracord
Bic Lighter
Streamlight Microstream AAA
These are the items that are in my pockets/attached to my belt.
Thu Feb 15 05:19:42 UTC 2024
Testing out another way of syncing my .plan file.
Thu Feb 15 05:06:58 UTC 2024
I think I prefer this way of updating my .plan. I like that I can keep
my SDF .plan synced with my webpage .plan. I am currently using my .plan
as sort of a running stream of thoughts/posts.
Wed Feb 14 06:35:13 UTC 2024
One more test just to make sure it really works.
Wed Feb 14 06:33:31 UTC 2024
Testing out a new script to generate my .plan file.
Wed Feb 14 04:35:09 UTC 2024
I have been interested in messing with my homepage again. I tend to go
through spurts. I figure if I have a webspace, I might as well use it
and place random odds and ends in it. I also have shown interest in cgi
scripts but can't really think of anything useful to do with them.
Sat Feb 3 06:52:30 UTC 2024
Well I think I am over the worst part of being sick.
I also recently acquired 2 older Dell Optiplex 3020's. Intel i3, 8gb RAM.
One has a 500gb hdd and the other has a 500gb ssd. Now I just need to
figure out what I need/want to do with them.
Fri Feb 2 03:31:03 UTC 2024
Holy moly I am sick. I haven't been this sick in a long time. I woke up
this morning and actually wondered if I was dying.
Mon Jan 29 19:19:54 UTC 2024
I recently decided to start fresh and re-install OpenBSD. I have to say,
the OpenBSD installer is nice. It is super simple and partitioning is
not the chore that people seem to make it out to be. It is very
straightforward. As an added bonus, you can encrypt the disk during
the install process instead of having to drop into a shell.
Over the years I have used a few different Linux distros (mainly Slackware),
and while I enjoy Slackware, I cannot see myself using anything other than
a BSD. Even Slackware has started introducing things like PAM, which just
seems incredibly complex. I have no use for it.
Sat Jan 27 06:18:53 UTC 2024
Things are kind of a drag. Looking for a new place to live. It is not
a very enjoyable experience.
Other than that, it is just that time of year where everything feels just
"blah". Rain, go to work in the dark, leave in the dark. Bleh.
Sat Jan 13 20:27:02 UTC 2024
Not much going on. Trying to stay warm. Switched from primarily using a
laptop to using a desktop. That has really been about it.
Sun Dec 24 09:55:57 UTC 2023
So I think what happens is that I get bored. Every so often I have this
urge to make emacs work for me. Currently I use ed and vi (nvi really) and
it works fine for me. What turns me off from emacs is that it feels it needs
to do weird things with tabs and spaces I would rather not use GPL software
if I can avoid it.
Sun Dec 3 19:43:27 UTC 2023
I've carried some sort of Victorinox slip joint for years and years now.
I am thinking of trying out a Case style "traditional" knife. I carried
a peanut style knife about 20 years ago and remember using it all the time.
At some point though I got caught up in having extra "tools" so have mainly
carried the Victorinox's since then.
Wed Nov 29 06:26:33 UTC 2023
I feel like I should give cwm an honest shot. I'm not going to lie though,
fvwm works quite well for me.
Tue Nov 28 05:26:34 UTC 2023
How I use cvs to manage my home directory
-----------------------------------------
I use cvs to manage my home directory. In the past on other systems I have
used RCS, git, and got. Recently I was using got but decided to try to use
as many programs from my current operating system base packages as possible.
So we are back to using cvs.
First, in my ~/.profile I export CVSROOT:
CVSROOT=~/cvs
export CVSROOT
In the top level of my home directory I create the ~/cvs directory and
initialize it:
mkdir ~/cvs
cvs init
Next, I will switch to the ~/tmp directory and checkout the CVSROOT directory
and edit a few files:
cd ~/tmp
cvs co CVSROOT
cd CVSROOT
ed cvswrappers
ed loginfo
cvs ci -m "cvs repository setup"
cd ..
cvs release -d CVSROOT
What I do here is edit cvswrappers to add some filetypes that cvs should
ignore when keyword expansion is concerned. The loginfo file I add the
following:
DEFAULT /home/jss/bin/clog
The ~/bin/clog scripts looks like this:
#!/bin/ksh
(
print;
print "CVSROOT: $CVSROOT";
print "Changes by: $(id -un) $(date -u)";
print;
cat
)>/home/jss/tmp/cmlog
cat $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog >>/home/jss/tmp/cmlog
cp /home/jss/tmp/cmlog $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitlog
Whenever I run a `cvs ci` cvs runs the ~/bin/clog script and appends the
log file with "prettier" output:
CVSROOT: /home/jss/cvs
Changes by: jss Tue Nov 28 04:12:56 UTC 2023
Update of /home/jss/cvs/dotfiles
In directory erb:/home/jss/src/dotfiles
Modified Files:
dot.kshrc
Log Message:
Add missing semicolon
That is the initial setup for the repository. Now I will go through and
start "importing" files/directories. For example, if I want to add my
~/src directory to cvs I will do the following:
cd ~/src
cvs import -m "Initial import into CVS" src jss start
After I import everything I want to track, I will start checking everything
out:
mv ~/src ~/src.bak
cvs co src
rm -r src.bak
Once I get everything imported and checked out there are only a few
more things that I like to have to make it a smoother experience.
First is my `cvp` script:
#!/bin/ksh
set -A dirlist \
src/bin \
src/dotfiles \
src/html
cd ~ || exit 1
cvs -qn up ${dirlist[@]}
Running `cvp` will let me know if there are files in the listed directories
that need to be committed or added.
I also add two aliases to ~/.kshrc:
alias cvh='cvs history -c | less'
alias cvl='less ~/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlog'
That is pretty much the bare bones setup of my cvs repository.
Mon Nov 27 03:05:59 UTC 2023
Warren Zevon said it best, "Send lawyers, guns and money"
Sun Nov 26 06:56:34 UTC 2023
Some EDC items I carry just because I like it. The Cold Steel Recon 1 is one
of those items. It's a little big, but it makes me happy.
Sat Nov 25 02:35:18 UTC 2023
EDC
---
Esee CR2.5
Victorinox Farmer X
Cold Steel Recon 1
Casio GW6900
Open Sea Leather Topsider Wallet
Wazoo Spark
Zippo with butane insert
Wurkkos FC11
Some paracord
Fri Nov 24 21:22:25 UTC 2023
I use xconsole. I keep it visible and use it for fun little things such as
getting the weather.
#!/bin/ksh
nc -cTnoverify wttr.in 443 << EOF |
GET /90001?format=%l:+%C+%t HTTP/1.0
Host: wttr.in
User-Agent: curl
EOF
grep "90001" >/dev/console
Run it from $PATH or keybind it. Change the zipcode to the appropriate
one for you and it will display something like:
90001: Sunny +60F
in xconsole.
Fri Nov 24 21:14:55 UTC 2023
Some CVS things
#!/bin/ksh
set -A dirlist \
share/doc/notes \
src/bin \
src/c \
src/dotfiles \
src/html \
src/ksh \
src/python
cd ~ || exit 1
cvs -q -n up ${dirlist[@]}
Save it, name it, run it and it will show any files in the listed
directories that have been added, modified, etc.
Fri Nov 24 03:52:27 UTC 2023
I'm not much of a holiday person. Today was rather uneventful. About the only
thing I did was finish my switch from got back to cvs.
Thu Nov 23 06:56:25 UTC 2023
I have tried a few different revision control systems (git, got, RCS, CVS)
and I keep coming back to CVS. It works. It's...cranky. But it works.
Fri Nov 17 05:08:01 UTC 2023
I've never given C a serious shot. I am currently working through the
2nd edition C book and even though I am only on chapter 1, it has been
enjoyable.
Thu Nov 16 03:13:44 UTC 2023
I'm back. Let's try this again.