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decided to revitalise my old thinkpad so installed freebsd. spent a week splurging a load of new colourschemes after some new inspiration. have been using oldriceputin for a couple of weeks now. [Ima...

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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06-08-2022, 01:22 PM

Thread: What do you use as a system monitor
Post: RE: What do you use as a system monitor

I use the same battery script as venam, and I also use htop(1). Another tool that I quite like is glances.

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Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

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18-02-2022, 09:20 AM

Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

https://christine.website/blog/nixos-des...2020-04-25 [Image: https://rum.sh/webtag-02.png]

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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11-01-2022, 08:27 AM

Thread: What Do You Do for a Living
Post: RE: What Do You Do for a Living

These days my title is either Linux Engineer or Linux Consultant, both are basically sysadmin with extra steps. Since my first Linux job in 2013 I have worked for both large and small companies in va...

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29-12-2021, 12:06 PM

Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

https://lowtechmagazine.com ? [Image: https://rum.sh/webtag-01.png]

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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11-11-2021, 08:58 AM

Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine

That sounds good. I would be happy to write something up but due to life commitments it may take a while. We have a great community here, I look forward to seeing how this takes shape.

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11-10-2021, 04:10 PM

Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine

I like this idea. Short articles are really handy when you're skimming the internet on a coffee break. How would the submissions work? Would anything be excepted and then someone takes on the role ...

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

6,548

11-10-2021, 01:22 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(01-10-2021, 02:11 PM)z3bra Wrote: I decided to make my email stack more robust, so I built a secondary mail server to queue up mails in the event that my primary server goes down. Turns out, it's s...

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Programming On Unix

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08-10-2021, 05:59 AM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

thanks for that z3bra, it looks more likely that we will be able to get Ubuntu laptops in work so this is handy to know

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GNU/Linux

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02-09-2021, 10:27 AM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

As much as I don't like Ubuntu and Gnome Shell it is nice that you are running native Linux. My current work laptop is running my Linux distro in a VM. My company is toying with allowing Ubuntu lapto...

pyratebeard

GNU/Linux

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09-08-2021, 05:20 PM

Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications

- os: arch - wm: 2bwm - shell: zsh - terminal: rxvt-unicode, tmux - music: cmus - video: mpv - image: sxiv, feh - email: mutt, offlineimap - wallpaper: hashwall - editor: vim - pdf: zathura - screensh...

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BSD

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02-07-2021, 08:21 AM

Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

late to the party... * video * scrot warez used: * 2bwm * urxvt * tmux * interrobang * z3bra's todo script * cmus * xero's hashwall script * scrot * syntax samurai pb script * irssi * qutebrowser

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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01-07-2021, 12:27 PM

Thread: Unix and the Industry
Post: RE: Unix and the Industry

I haven't seen any UNIX systems in operation for a few years. In a previous job we had a lot of AIX and HP-UX systems which I had to manage, and even a Tru64 system! I would assume the AIX and HP-UX...

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Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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15-02-2021, 08:26 AM

Thread: Activities proposals
Post: RE: Activities proposals

(09-02-2021, 01:12 PM)phillbush Wrote: Xonotic has also been proposed. I have a private Xonotic server if we want to use it.

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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10-02-2021, 06:05 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

(26-11-2020, 01:46 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: You an Irish bloke are ya Pyrate? Not Irish but currently a resident of Dublin.

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30-11-2020, 06:14 AM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

Cheers (25-11-2020, 12:42 PM)opFez Wrote: Can you actually program anything with that font? It's tiny! It's not the size that matters... or something. The font isn't that small, I sometimes go a s...

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25-11-2020, 04:29 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

I tweaked my cursed theme to look less like gruvbox. [Image: https://pyratebeard.net/scrots/zombie-01.png]

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25-11-2020, 08:26 AM

Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?

https://andrewhulshult.bandcamp.com/ I find quite a lot of video game music is good for when I am working. These albums by Andrew Hulshult have an industrial metal sound to them.

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Off topic

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24-11-2020, 06:09 AM

Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programmi...

(21-11-2020, 11:33 AM)venam Wrote: how to change @ at-sign and # sharp sign for kill and erase), syncing the baud rate, how to pause and continue the stream (ctrl-s ctrl-q), the break key, and much ...

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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21-11-2020, 05:32 PM

Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT

my minimal zsh prompt: [Image: https://pyratebeard.net/scrots/nixers-prompt.png]

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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09-11-2020, 06:27 AM

Thread: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]
Post: RE: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]

(01-11-2020, 04:53 PM)venam Wrote: Did you find the talks interesting? What did you like about them?I found all the talks interesting. They were technical enough without being too complicated to fo...

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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02-11-2020, 06:49 AM

Thread: Hey Nixers!
Post: RE: Hey Nixers!

(07-10-2020, 08:20 PM)l0bster Wrote: "come out of my shell"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) hoi, welcome to nixers

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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08-10-2020, 05:48 AM

Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!

(06-10-2020, 07:36 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: drinking some Founder CBS Excellent choice

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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06-10-2020, 09:45 AM

Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!

Updates since working from home; wrapped my desk in comic book cutouts to make it more interesting, moved the desk away from the window due to glare, replaced most of the PC components (specs below). ...

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05-10-2020, 07:38 AM

Thread: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!
Post: RE: New nixers.net Screenshots Webpage!

(04-10-2020, 10:17 AM)mcol Wrote: All above done, too :) Nice work mcol

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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04-10-2020, 12:04 PM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(01-10-2020, 05:48 PM)injinj Wrote: I think that the missing shell in this discussion is Powershell. Powershell is like the SystemD for Windows, except with command line capabilities. "Aww, look at...

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BSD

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02-10-2020, 06:11 AM

Thread: How Do You Partition Your Drives
Post: RE: How Do You Partition Your Drives

My partition layout is mostly down to habit I picked up as a sysadmin. Using LVM and separate partitions so the system can be manipulated. My PC has /home on a RAID5 array. Code:NAME &nb...

pyratebeard

Desktop Customization & Workflow

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28-09-2020, 04:58 AM

Thread: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?
Post: RE: What IRC channel's do you auto connect to?

On freenode I'm most active in #nixers_net & #dublinlinux (LUG channel). I also have #sysadmin on irc.darkscience.net open. Sometimes I will jump on to rizon and snoonet, but not so much recentl...

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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18-09-2020, 03:19 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

(16-09-2020, 05:06 PM)evbo Wrote: I really like that colorscheme. My first thought was a mix of Gruvbox and sourcerer. Thanks. I have never used Gruvbox, but just had a quick look at the scheme. I...

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17-09-2020, 03:23 PM

Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!

Yet another theme I have been playing around with. This one, I am calling "cursed", is inspired by "sourcerer" by xero and loosely based on the colours I had in my "port_royal" scheme. [Image: https...

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11-09-2020, 06:48 AM

Thread: Gopher anyone?
Post: RE: Gopher anyone?

(10-09-2020, 09:16 PM)z3bra Wrote: I declare the very first nixers community gopher server ALIVE ! Browse it at gopher://g.nixers.net. Awesome, thanks z3bra and venam. Hopefully this becomes an int...

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Old school stuff

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11-09-2020, 05:58 AM

Thread: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Post: RE: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Greetings mcol, and welcome.

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Community & Forums Related Discussions

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04-09-2020, 09:10 AM

Thread: Sci-fi and Futurism
Post: RE: Sci-fi and Futurism

Sci-fi is such a broad genre in both literature and film. Some of my favourite sci-fi novels are a bit more "near-future" and Earth-bound instead of the vast sweeping space fantasy from the likes of ...

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Off topic

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03-09-2020, 07:32 AM

Thread: Lighter versions of sites
Post: RE: Lighter versions of sites

(03-09-2020, 05:16 AM)z3bra Wrote: I just found out about https://nitter.net, which is like invidio.us for twitter. It aims to provide twitter access without javascript, so it seem to qualify :) I f...

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The WWW

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03-09-2020, 07:04 AM

Thread: What's your favorite book?
Post: RE: What's your favorite book?

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers has to be one of my favourite novels. I will also read anything by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross. The Laundry Files series by Stross is an excellent mix of horror,...

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Off topic

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26-07-2019, 09:47 AM

Thread: Remote work solution
Post: RE: Remote work solution

For work I work remote quite a bit. Any dev work is done in git. We have a VPN for access to the company network. For any op work I ssh through one (or more!) jump servers. On our main jumpserver ...

pyratebeard

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

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25-04-2019, 12:49 PM

Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement

(27-02-2019, 06:20 AM)venam Wrote: When I have to do something after X time or at X time I just fire up `at` with notify-send and/or some sound. It's pretty neat, light, and simple. I have started u...

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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11-04-2019, 01:28 PM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

(12-03-2019, 06:46 AM)venam Wrote: I find myself searching on my own blog or own writing more often and reviewing it as a reminder, a sort of wiki. I also look through my own blog to remind myself o...

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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27-03-2019, 10:05 AM

Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications

(06-03-2019, 02:03 PM)venam Wrote: Also, it's showing notifications even when the state is charging. I hadn't noticed that, cheers. I'll try and look at a fix. (06-03-2019, 02:03 PM)venam Wrote: ...

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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06-03-2019, 03:43 PM

Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!

As discussed on #unix here is my current work setup [Image: https://i.imgur.com/56JNCC8.jpg] No, I don't need all those screens, I normally only use two of them. **EDIT: Include my home battlestati...

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06-03-2019, 11:50 AM

Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications

I improved the script I posted above and included the systemd service on github. PRs welcome.

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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05-03-2019, 11:13 AM

Thread: Keeping Track of Your Things
Post: RE: Keeping Track of Your Things

(01-03-2019, 07:33 PM)z3bra Wrote: I think i just need a big greppable directory :P I use ag (the_silver_searcher) from within vim to search my wiki files.

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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05-03-2019, 09:26 AM

Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications

(05-03-2019, 06:41 AM)venam Wrote: EDIT: The script is probably simple but sharing is caring. check-battery.sh There is probably a much nicer way of doing this, any suggestions are welcome.

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Desktop Customization & Workflow

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05-03-2019, 09:08 AM

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