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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| my laptop is currently out of service so have been using an old Asus EeePC netbook running the latest Debian (32bit FTW!)
[Image: https://pyratebeard.net/scrots/oldriceputin-eee.png] |
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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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20-05-2024, 07:43 AM |
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Thread: Cyber hunt
Post: RE: Cyber hunt
| This looks excellent z3bra, can't wait to give it a shot |
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pyratebeard |
Off topic
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19-10-2023, 05:22 AM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| (03-11-2022, 07:02 AM)z3bra Wrote: Keep in mind also that the "sacc" gopher client is installed on the server
that is really handy, thanks! |
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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-11-2022, 05:18 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| 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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-08-2022, 01:22 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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18-02-2022, 09:20 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-01-2022, 08:27 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Off topic
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29-12-2021, 12:06 PM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
| https://lowtechmagazine.com ?
[Image: https://rum.sh/webtag-01.png] |
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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-11-2021, 08:58 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-10-2021, 04:10 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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11-10-2021, 01:22 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Programming On Unix
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08-10-2021, 05:59 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
GNU/Linux
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02-09-2021, 10:27 AM |
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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... |
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pyratebeard |
GNU/Linux
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09-08-2021, 05:20 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
BSD
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02-07-2021, 08:21 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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01-07-2021, 12:27 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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15-02-2021, 08:26 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10-02-2021, 06:05 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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30-11-2020, 06:14 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-11-2020, 04:29 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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25-11-2020, 08:26 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Off topic
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24-11-2020, 06:09 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21-11-2020, 05:32 PM |
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Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT
| my minimal zsh prompt:
[Image: https://pyratebeard.net/scrots/nixers-prompt.png] |
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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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09-11-2020, 06:27 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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02-11-2020, 06:49 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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08-10-2020, 05:48 AM |
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Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!
| (06-10-2020, 07:36 AM)Ramiferous Wrote: drinking some Founder CBS
Excellent choice |
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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-10-2020, 09:45 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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05-10-2020, 07:38 AM |
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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 |
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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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pyratebeard |
BSD
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02-10-2020, 06:11 AM |
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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... |
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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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28-09-2020, 04:58 AM |
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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 |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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17-09-2020, 03:23 PM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11-09-2020, 06:48 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Old school stuff
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11-09-2020, 05:58 AM |
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Thread: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Post: RE: Hi nixers ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
| Greetings mcol, and welcome. |
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pyratebeard |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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04-09-2020, 09:10 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Off topic
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03-09-2020, 07:32 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
The WWW
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03-09-2020, 07:04 AM |
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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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pyratebeard |
Off topic
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26-07-2019, 09:47 AM |
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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 ... |
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pyratebeard |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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25-04-2019, 12:49 PM |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Desktop Customization & Workflow
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06-03-2019, 11:50 AM |
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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 |
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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 |