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  Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?

(10-08-2023, 04:23 AM)venam Wrote: I still think it's quite a lot!Yeah, me too. Okay, let's say: "Machines with that amount of memory are more common these days." :-)
movq Hardware talk 7 2,917 10-08-2023, 11:32 AM
  Thread: What's everyone's daily driver device?
Post: RE: What's everyone's daily driver device?

Well, I still use the same tower PC I bought in 2013. Quoting the specs from my gopher hole: Code::: Workstation / "pinguin"   (2013)     OS: Arch Linux x86_64  &...
movq Hardware talk 7 2,917 09-08-2023, 12:59 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

In the beginning, I used ls(1). Then I wrote a wrapper in Perl that took the output of ls(1) and colorized it, because that was fashionable at the time. Much later, I threw all that away and rewrote...
movq Programming On Unix 414 303,666 09-08-2023, 12:55 PM
  Thread: RIP, Bram Moolenaar
Post: RE: RIP, Bram Moolenaar

Like many here, I use Vim every day. It's one of the most stable and reliable pieces of software that I know. I think I reported a bug *once*. Can't remember Vim ever crashing on me. Never lost a file...
movq Off topic 4 2,130 08-08-2023, 04:10 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

(01-04-2022, 02:57 PM)Shrek Wrote: What's old is what's new again. I'm working on a Motif based desktop.You posted this no April 1st, so I hope this is not an April fools joke. :-) This looks reall...
movq Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,076,634 03-04-2022, 03:52 PM
  Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

htop here, too. It can usually answer all of my questions. One of the things it can't do is show network usage. For my Linux desktop/laptop, I just have a widget in my status bar (along with CPU usag...
movq Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 13 8,257 12-02-2022, 04:51 AM
  Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living

@venam: Your field sounds super interesting. I can imagine that it’s pretty dull at times (like sifting through the docs of weird standards and protocols), but still. I hardly know anything about any ...
movq Off topic 6 6,162 27-12-2021, 03:21 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

This is a lot of fun and I'll probably do the quizzes of the other years, too. Hence I've moved/renamed the repo: https://uninformativ.de/git/advent-of-code
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 16-12-2021, 12:26 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

Well, my goal was to learn more about Rust, but so far, there’s mainly one thing I’ve learned: Rust is not the best tool for simple programs like the AoC. :-) The reason is that Rust doesn’t have exc...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 11-12-2021, 04:55 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

(07-12-2021, 02:44 AM)venam Wrote: most people just memorize them for interviews these daysI wonder: If you know a lot of those tricks, it might still be helpful in real life. 🤔 (But I have no idea...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 08-12-2021, 03:07 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

It took me forever to understand how you have to look at today’s problem (at least part 2). I OOM-ed my 32 GB a couple of times. Gah. Then I had a look at your repos and saw that you completed this s...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 06-12-2021, 06:09 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

It’s the first time that I’m doing this, so I’m a bit surprised that there’s a completely different task each day. I was expecting that the tasks build on each other. But now, you write a completely n...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 05-12-2021, 05:54 AM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

Oh, right, the repo: https://uninformativ.de/git/AoC-2021/ – doing it in Rust for now (because I want to keep learning … I think), probably terrible quality. Your awk snippets are certainly a lot sho...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 01-12-2021, 05:30 PM
  Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard

Might be fun. Joined the leaderboard as “(anonymous user #1632100)”.
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 30 12,049 01-12-2021, 11:54 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(19-11-2021, 02:03 AM)seninha Wrote: You can find the source code of the book (and the book itself, in pdf format) here: https://github.com/phillbush/catb-mb I really want to dig through all that. I...
movq Programming On Unix 414 303,666 21-11-2021, 02:40 PM
  Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i

(21-11-2021, 08:18 AM)venam Wrote: When I want to override and alias, I prepend it with "command". So maybe you could try: `command rm -r`. There’s also the super intuitive and totally obvious versi...
movq BSD 8 7,501 21-11-2021, 02:34 PM
  Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

What I want from a server system: Minimal default installation, stability, good upgrade paths. Switched to OpenBSD for my servers a while back. I love it because it’s a no-nonsense system (i.e., sens...
movq GNU/Linux 17 8,017 21-11-2021, 02:31 PM
  Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2021
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2021

Nice! Pretty sure I’ll be able to attend this time. :-)
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 16 12,736 27-09-2021, 12:08 PM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

Dear UNIX diary, today I’m angry with you. I have a cronjob that runs `lsblk -S` and pipes it to `awk`. `awk` then matches some of the fields: It only prints those lines where the `TYPE` column is `...
movq Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,348 27-09-2021, 11:56 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(10-07-2021, 02:14 PM)phillbush Wrote: Did you use another font as base or did you create the glyphs from scratch?Bit of both. The font was technically created from scratch, but I did a lot of work ...
movq Programming On Unix 414 303,666 10-07-2021, 02:33 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

Something silly: Yet another font. 7x15 is the perfect size for my screen. Sadly, there are very few fonts in that size. It’s usually 8x16 or 6x14 or something like that. So it’s either too big or to...
movq Programming On Unix 414 303,666 10-07-2021, 12:49 PM
  Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

Today is the last day of my TTY week. It was very smooth this time. (My last TTY week was in 2016.) The big difference compared to last time was my usage of GPM, the mouse server. elinks is a GPM cli...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 8,027 30-06-2021, 11:06 AM
  Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

Oh, right, keyboard layout! I have a custom(ized) layout, too, and it's the same on TTY as in X11: https://uninformativ.de/git/keyboard-layouts-3000 There's lots of german comments, sorry, many eve...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 8,027 27-06-2021, 01:01 PM
  Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

Yesterday was my first day and it was already pretty interesting. Found out that GPM isn't just a daemon that runs in the background and lets you copy and paste text. It's also a mouse server that you...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 8,027 26-06-2021, 01:59 AM
  Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

(24-06-2021, 03:39 AM)venam Wrote: GPMAhh, GPM, haven’t used that in ages. This will be the perfect opportunity to give it another shot and learn more about it.
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 8,027 24-06-2021, 11:37 AM
  Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]

I’d love to do a week of Win 3.11 or OS/2 Warp 4 (edit: okay, there is a slight chance that there’s some software out that for OS/2 that still works reasonably, but I really am too lazy to hunt that d...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 22 8,027 20-06-2021, 10:17 AM
  Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

Let’s quickly talk about background music of the final video: I see users with bright or bright-ish themes and users with dark ones. Maybe we could use some music that fits those themes.For the brigh...
movq Desktop Customization & Workflow 32 13,754 04-06-2021, 04:19 PM
  Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

(03-06-2021, 10:12 AM)phillbush Wrote: Here's my video (the file will self-destruct in one month)Does your video end prematurely? It stops in the middle of the posting on the forum. :o
movq Desktop Customization & Workflow 32 13,754 04-06-2021, 09:39 AM
  Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

Decided to make a video after all: https://movq.de/v/644d98f311/2021-nixers...-movq.webm (This link will expire in one year.) As suggested by humky, a list of the stuff used: - OS: Arch Linux - Wi...
movq Desktop Customization & Workflow 32 13,754 03-06-2021, 03:32 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

Dear UNIX diary, today, I had fun with file descriptor flags at work. I had a Python script that failed with `EAGAIN` while doing a `print()` on `stdout`. Say what? Looking at `write(2)`, we can se...
movq Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,348 28-05-2021, 03:18 PM
  Thread: The June Events
Post: RE: The June Events

Lol, I haven’t changed my workflow at all since last time. Time flies. The terminals are grey-on-black again, but that’s it. So, I guess, I’ll pass on that. But I can happily donate some CPU time and...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 10 8,862 12-05-2021, 11:58 AM
  Thread: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?
Post: RE: Most automaton-friendly OS/Distro?

Depends on how you look at it. Systems that don’t try to hold your hand all the time are “automation friendly”, I think. With those systems, you can install a package (meaning: download a tarball and...
movq Other *nix-like OSes & POSIX related 4 2,707 12-05-2021, 10:36 AM
  Thread: The Hosting Thread
Post: RE: The Hosting Thread

(20-04-2021, 04:45 PM)sth Wrote: i'd pay another $15 for an IP if they'd let meAs for email: Yeah, if it’s from a separate pool of IPs, then I’d consider it as well. I mean, it doesn’t really ma...
movq Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 9 4,030 21-04-2021, 11:34 AM
  Thread: The Hosting Thread
Post: RE: The Hosting Thread

I run several VPS boxes at https://www.netcup.de/. That includes my web pages, gopher, mail, Matrix for our family, IRC server for me and a friend, a little DNS server for dynamic names, and probably ...
movq Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization 9 4,030 20-04-2021, 03:48 PM
  Thread: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge
Post: RE: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge

(12-04-2021, 02:35 PM)mort Wrote: I don't know whether this is technically correct according to POSIX or not, but it doesn't work in ZSH. In ZSH, "test/.*" is an error if there are no hidden files i...
movq Programming On Unix 15 5,146 13-04-2021, 03:34 PM
  Thread: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge
Post: RE: POSIX Shell Programming Challenge

How about that: Code:for i in test/* test/.* do     if ! [ -e "$i" ]     then         continue    &n...
movq Programming On Unix 15 5,146 12-04-2021, 10:49 AM
  Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages

Nobody mentioned Tcl yet? I saw it being mentioned as “what the shell should have been”. I’ve never really learned it, maybe I should?
movq Programming On Unix 13 6,015 11-04-2021, 02:28 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book

(10-04-2021, 06:06 AM)venam Wrote: it's through these countless and different extensions that we find useful functionality. Though, I guess they aren't standard and so that makes them non-portable. ...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 14 8,268 11-04-2021, 01:56 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book

7 XDG shell basics So far, we’ve dealt with “display server stuff”, now we’re entering the realm of “window management”. So, an `xdg_surface` is a `wl_surface` with the additional meaning of “this i...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 14 8,268 03-04-2021, 02:42 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book

4 The Wayland display Alright, so the “display” is the “core” object that everything hinges on? (Much like a display in X11.) It provides access to the “registry”, which you can use to allocate or re...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 14 8,268 27-03-2021, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Bitmap fonts (PCF/BDF) support with Pango
Post: RE: Bitmap fonts (PCF/BDF) support with Pango

(23-09-2020, 10:40 AM)movq Wrote: I hope to find a proper solution for this one day … I have. Sort of. Actually, it’s worse now. Kind of. fontforge introduces a “line gap” of 2 pixels. My BDF files...
movq Desktop Customization & Workflow 2 5,293 25-03-2021, 01:15 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book

(21-03-2021, 03:45 AM)movq Wrote: 2.4: Atomicity. That, of course, complicates things. For example, this blog post of Drew mentions (in the footnotes) a common scenario in sway: Changing the tiling ...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 14 8,268 23-03-2021, 01:51 PM
  Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #3: The Wayland Book

Whoops, I somehow thought it said “Sunday”, not “Saturday”. Are we doing 1-3 or 1-4? Here’s 1-3, which were rather basic I think, and I got 4 ready where we finally write some code. 1 Introduction ...
movq Community & Forums Related Discussions 14 8,268 21-03-2021, 03:45 AM
  Thread: ffmpeg script to convert files
Post: RE: ffmpeg script to convert files

(15-03-2021, 03:00 AM)s0kx Wrote: I haven't actually played with ffmpeg before, but I'll assume that the command you provided is correct.Now that you mention it, I’m not sure if that’s really what h...
movq Programming On Unix 6 3,249 15-03-2021, 03:15 AM
  Thread: ffmpeg script to convert files
Post: RE: ffmpeg script to convert files

You just add the other types to the `for` loop. :) And for removing, well, use `rm`. Code:#!/bin/bash for i in *.mkv *.webm; do     ffmpeg -i "$i" -codec copy "${i%.*}.mp4"    ...
movq Programming On Unix 6 3,249 15-03-2021, 02:59 AM