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Arch Linux on bootable, persistent USB drive – iN8sWoRLd

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Arch Linux on bootable, persistent USB drive. February 16, 2014. Lately and thought it was time I checked that out anyway. Possibly because of my use of Ubuntu I had gotten fairly comfortable using the Gnome desktop. Environment and part of my disatisfaction with Ubuntu actually has to do with flaws in Gnome. Random crashes always seemed to lead back to gnome-shell or some other gnome component. Linux Torvalds once penned a tirade on G. Deserved a fresh look. Before I settled on Arch. To format it. I...

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Journal – iN8sWoRLd

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A couple books about the history of D&D. February 7, 2016. I was first introduced to D&D in 1979 by some friends in school and was soon addicted. I spent inumerable hours creating maps and dungeons for my buddies. New lulu book, beach walk, some updates, and wake-on-lan. October 11, 2015. Its been a while since I’ve written anything here. I’ve written plenty on various social media (G , twitter, reddit mainly) but these places aren’t under my own control. Junk yard radio is good enough. July 18, 2015.

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android – iN8sWoRLd

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Finding the perfect netbook-sized laptop. July 4, 2016. Falling in love with the form factor Ever since I first got an android based ASUS Transformer model TF-101 back in 2011 I’ve been a fan of the. Upgrading Samsung S3 to Lollipop 5.1.1. February 18, 2016. I was running Cyanogenmod 11 (android 4.4.4) on my Samsung S3, using a SNAPSHOT from Aug, 2015 and not getting any more updates. Finally looking into why it. Orphaned Google Talk connections in psi. July 11, 2014. December 25, 2013. My take on tablets.

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Still using Arch on my Thinkpad T410s, but not with KDE anymore – iN8sWoRLd

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Still using Arch on my Thinkpad T410s, but not with KDE anymore. May 7, 2015. Its been a while since I’ve posted anything here so just as an excercise for the fingers I thought I’d post an update about my current machine. I’ve been running Arch on an old Thinkpad T410s. For almost a year now (. I started using Arch on a USB drive. Upgrading the Macbook to Ubuntu 14.04. May 24, 2014. Jan 6, 2010. Retro gaming: Warcraft II on Ubuntu. Nov 18, 2010. Jul 22, 2008.

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Linux – iN8sWoRLd

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Fix for Firefox typing delay and slow scrolling. July 9, 2016. I frequently boot Arch Linux from a USB3 drive in various Intel based machines which I’ve discussed here before. Recently I was using the drive in a Dell. Ian Murdock, founder of Debian, dead at 42 under strange circumstances. December 31, 2015. Mr Murdock, the founder of Debian, had apparently suddenly begun posting some very strange things on Twitter over the weekend suggesting that he was planning suicide but also. November 9, 2015.

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Printing to Canon MX860 wirelessly from Arch Linux – iN8sWoRLd

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Printing to Canon MX860 wirelessly from Arch Linux. January 25, 2015. Made all the difference. First I had to get cups installed which required a bunch of packages:. Pacman -S libcups cups ghostscript gsfonts. Then I enabled and started the cups service which has a cryptic name:. Systemctl enable org.cups.cupsd.service. Systemctl start org.cups.cupsd.service. And restart will come in handy). I navigated to the CUPS admin page:. Unfortunately bjnp isn’t in the main repos, but it is in the AUR:. 8230;then ...

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Using a laptop in the office – product recommendations – iN8sWoRLd

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Using a laptop in the office – product recommendations. February 18, 2015. The keyboard (at least on most laptops) must remain physically attached to it and usually ends up at a sub-optimal length for comfortable typing. Setting up a monitor, secondary keyboard and mouse on your office desk that you can use with your laptop when you’re in the office makes your a laptop a lot more versatile. Connector on a low-end laptop, but Macs will generally come with a mini-DVI. Connector (note the distinctive shape)...

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iN8sWoRLd – Page 2 – There's no place like 127.0.0.1

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A couple books about the history of D&D. February 7, 2016. I was first introduced to D&D in 1979 by some friends in school and was soon addicted. I spent inumerable hours creating maps and dungeons for my buddies. Removal of F8 a good example of why I hate Windows. January 25, 2016. Caveats I don’t use Microsoft Windows at home. I did at one time – I ran Win3.1 and 3.11, Win95, Win98, Win98SE, WinNT4, WinXP, and still use Windows. Can I run this thing on my 100W Solar panel? January 7, 2016.

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Nate’s Music – An Overview – iN8sWoRLd

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Nate’s Music – An Overview. The most recent group I recorded and played with is Bardic Circle which is an Irish folk group. We’ve got a facebook page. But the bardiccircle.info web domain expired and we didn’t renew it. The screenshot below is all that remains. To facilitate sessions I’ve been keeping a “Book of Song” for over 20 years. Eventually the book moved online and at some point I decided to format it as a book and have it printed (I used lulu. I would gather a bunch of tunes together at some poi...

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Crontab reference – iN8sWoRLd

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January 19, 2015. This is just a snippet of text I got from here. Which I keep around and paste into my crontab on any new machine I set up. If I forget to do this I invariably end up googling it again… every time. Virtually yours with Virtualbox. Jan 23, 2009. Lastfm – a facebook for music lovers? Mar 31, 2009. Army Builder on a Mac and mobile output. Jan 3, 2010. Software patents stifle innovation. Dec 28, 2011.