Author: Kelson Vibber

After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair …

After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair that I wouldn’t miss if it fell into a marsh while I failed to duck under a tree.

Well… I can’t say I didn’t get what I was looking for.

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And yeah, that’s what I think happened to the pair i only had for 2 weeks. I put them in my shirt pocket when I went into the wooded area, and didn’t have them when I left the preserve.

In between, I hit my head on a branch and nearly went sprawling. Managed to catch my balance without landing face first in the mud. Picked up my hat (which managed to save me from any cuts on my scalp – my shoulder wasn’t as lucky). But I think the sunglasses must have fallen out when I stumbled.

I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP…

I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP to a remote Windows server, and SSH shells open to remote Linux servers.

I have no idea what shortcut keys to use at any given time.

Also I think I’ve got websites open in at least 4 browsers, some Firefox and some Chrome, split across the host and the two VMs.

And I thought finding the right tab was bad under ordinary circumstances!

At one point I had a reference page open in a browser on the host for something I was doing on a VM and I just could not switch windows consistently.

Why am I doing this????

Looking forward to finishing this project so I can go back to just using the host system and SSH shells

But hey, now I know you can drag and drop a file from the LXQt file manager in an Ubuntu VM running on a Mac to the Windows file manager in another VM that’s accessing a network share on a Windows domain over a VPN that the Lubuntu VM doesn’t know about and it ACTUALLY WORKS!

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GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM

FOOLISH MORTAL!

Do you DARE look into the GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM?

— Um, can I turn the brightness down? Or maybe switch to dark mode?

ALL IS DARKNESS

— Wait, I thought you said it was glowing?

THE GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM CAN MULTITASK

— Ok, got it. Doom, glowing darkness.

— You *did* say it could run Doom, right?

IT IS *OF* DOOM, NOT *FOR* DOOM.

(the glowing rectangle prefers to avoid dependency loops)

— So what kind of doom are we talking about here? Classic, like fate? Or modern, like impending disaster?

— And why am I getting so many notifications from it?

FOOL! The GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM TOOTS AS IT PLEASES!

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Les Mis, goose, dream

I dreamed that Jean Valjean convinced Javert to rescue an injured goose like he helps rescue Marius in the original. Javert took the goose to the station, issued it its own photo ID (it was a modern retelling), and the goose proceeded to follow Javert around everywhere for weeks until it got homesick and wanted him to take it back to the lagoon where Valjean had found it. Somehow it managed to convey this to him and he brought it back.

#goose #lesmiserables #dream #weird

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Interesting thought:Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI …

Interesting thought:

Back in the 80s and 90s, X Windows enabled Unix systems to run GUI programs remotely. Because bandwidth was low and scarce, the server would send the drawing commands across the wire and the client would render as much as possible itself.

Now a lot of systems have more bandwidth than rendering power, and services like GeForce Now and Stadia are rendering entire detailed game sessions on a server and just streaming the video to the client.

It’s kind of a wild reversal.

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Re: Fluffy Clouds Search

Fluffy Clouds is an ancient Perl script that i started using back in 2001 or something. I’ve tweaked it a bit to limit searches to parts of the site, normalize Unicode, etc. I’m not surprised the developer abandoned it. I keep thinking about switching to something more capable, but every time I look, i mostly find things that are way more complicated than I need.

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As for how it actually works:

One script crawls all the html files within a folder and builds an index of words. I have it on a weekly cron job.

The other reads an html template with header and footer, searches the index, and plugs the results and search form into the template.

IIRC it skips meta robots pages on indexing and reads the file title and description at display time.