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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| I like TUIs for tasks where awareness of context helps guide or inform a sequence of actions. A text editor is the classic example. File managers are also helpful for those of us who tend to lose our... |
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ckester |
BSD
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17-06-2022, 12:00 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
| ksh93, nowadays for no other reason than familiarity after many years of use. |
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ckester |
BSD
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24-04-2022, 03:35 PM |
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Thread: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
Post: RE: First Time you used 'Linux' ?
| Too long ago to remember exactly when, but I remember having to setup modelines in order to get X Windows working with my monitor.
Checking my bookshelves, I see that I have the 4th edition (1996)o... |
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ckester |
GNU/Linux
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52,069 |
21-04-2022, 07:08 PM |
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Thread: [Assembly] Need a good resources to start
Post: RE: [Assembly] Need a good resources to start
| You might try this book:
Ray Seyfarth, Introduction to 64 Bit Assembly Programming for Linux and OS X: For Linux and OS X 3rd Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Bit-...1484921909
There doe... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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25-03-2022, 12:25 AM |
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Thread: Recommended UPS?
Post: Recommended UPS?
| I'm looking for an uninterruptable power supply for my desktop machine.
What are you guys using?
I need both battery backup and surge protection. |
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ckester |
Hardware talk
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670 |
08-03-2022, 01:01 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| I misread the subject line. Those are my resolutions for 2022. |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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30-11-2021, 06:30 AM |
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Thread: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
Post: RE: New Year Resolutions [2021 Edition]
| Buy a few Raspberry Pi's and use them to build some servers for various things around the house.
Build a new desktop machine to replace my old Gateway PC.
Learn how to write some elinks hooks to f... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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3,189 |
29-11-2021, 06:03 PM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
| (15-09-2020, 02:59 AM)z3bra Wrote: There are a few ones already:
lynx browser
sacc
clic (for emacs)
bombadillo
Many more
The elinks browser also supports the gopher protocol.
Not available i... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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10,296 |
23-11-2021, 11:30 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #5: Computer Science from the Bottom Up
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #5: Computer Science f...
| Basic CS stuff, yes, and presented briskly like a refresher. It's good to go back and revisit these things now and then, to fill in any gaps in our understanding.
I really liked its beginning with t... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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21-08-2021, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Yeah, I'm coming to think that for most TUI's stdio and escape sequences are sufficient. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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04-08-2021, 05:22 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (03-07-2021, 12:14 PM)jkl Wrote: I wonder what C standards will be named in 60 years from now. C11 is - in theory - before C89.
Any C programmer worth his salt should have no problem with a circular... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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5,821 |
04-07-2021, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: A Week of Trial [June Events 2021]
| Apropos of life in the TTY, vermaden referenced this interesting file manager in his latest "Valuable News":
https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm
I'm definitely going to give this one a try!
(I'd al... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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3,630 |
29-06-2021, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
Post: RE: Scripts to be "quick and efficient"
| Going back to a question asked earlier in this thread:
> At what point does customization stop being an investment into your productivity, and start stealing productivity?
I don't think it was ev... |
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ckester |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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18,736 |
23-06-2021, 12:00 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (05-06-2021, 09:49 AM)phillbush Wrote: The chapter then explains where configuration should be read from.
• Run-control files (in /etc and dotfiles in ~/).
• Environment variables.
• Argument option... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-06-2021, 02:12 PM |
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Thread: What is your coding style?
Post: RE: What is your coding style?
| I confess, I've always been sloppy when it comes to coding style. But I recently added an autocommand to my vimrc to reformat my code before saving it, using astyle(1):
Code:function! Format()
... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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25-05-2021, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (22-05-2021, 09:24 AM)phillbush Wrote: Well, I'm doing wrong then.
Heh. I'm getting the same feeling a lot while reading this book! |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-05-2021, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (01-05-2021, 11:11 AM)venam Wrote: Another sentence that caught my attention and which we should reconsider
today with all the tech-paparazzi, drama, absolutism, and purism
happening:
Quote:If some... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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09-05-2021, 01:17 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| OK, got it. Pulling my copy off the shelf for some after-dinner reading. |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-05-2021, 09:06 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Programming
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #4: The Art of UNIX Pr...
| (26-04-2021, 06:22 PM)phillbush Wrote: Our first session will be May, 8 (in two weeks), when we will discuss the first two chapters.
See you there!
Where is "there"? Is the discussion on the IRC ch... |
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ckester |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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01-05-2021, 04:53 PM |
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Thread: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's still alive?
Post: RE: What's your oldest piece of hardware that's st...
| After struggling to fix yet another paper-jamming issue, I finally retired my LaserJet 4+. So the oldest hardware that's still in use at my house is now my ThinkPad T410.
(The PowerPC Mac Mini is ba... |
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ckester |
Old school stuff
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19-04-2021, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| I'm not working on it (yet), but nvlr's post about writing a new toolkit reminded me of something I've had on my ideas list for a while now: implementing the ncurses API directly on top of X and cutti... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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10-04-2021, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Alternative formats
Post: RE: Alternative formats
| (03-10-2020, 04:03 PM)opFez Wrote: (03-10-2020, 02:50 PM)z3bra Wrote: I just wished there was a format to concatenate music or videos with cat(1).
That would actually be so cool. Probably possible... |
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ckester |
Unix Related Arts & Image Manipulation Software
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06-04-2021, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: What font are you using now?
Post: RE: What font are you using now?
| I use mononoki in all my terminal windows. |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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67,469 |
29-03-2021, 04:17 AM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| The awk book by the language's creators is a lovely piece of work itself. |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Favourite Scripting Languages
Post: RE: Favourite Scripting Languages
| I go with Posix shell scripts, or Korn shell when I need some feature not in Posix.
I like Python too, but have never used it enough to become more than a beginner with it. By the time my project ha... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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24-03-2021, 01:21 PM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| Beginning yet another rewrite of ncplay, my ncurses-based frontend for mpg123. I'm going to scrap the linked-list design I inherited from mcplay and replace it with a more cache-friendly array.
I ... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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186,376 |
21-03-2021, 04:03 PM |
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Thread: ffmpeg script to convert files
Post: RE: ffmpeg script to convert files
| (15-03-2021, 07:57 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: So are the curly brackets necessary? seems to work without them.
Not sure if this is what you're asking about, but:
Code:for i in *.mkv *.webm
and
Code:for ... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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16-03-2021, 01:41 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
| (10-03-2021, 10:18 PM)freem Wrote: (10-03-2021, 07:50 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: (10-03-2021, 10:49 AM)phillbush Wrote: image viewer: sxiv (I want to fork sxiv and make it into a file browser with thu... |
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ckester |
BSD
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56,693 |
11-03-2021, 05:56 PM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
| (06-11-2020, 02:01 PM)sokx Wrote: I mostly listen to music while I'm working on something and that's why I'm really into ambient instrumental music.
Same here, but I'm not familiar with most of the ... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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12,176 |
08-11-2020, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: 5 years from now
Post: RE: 5 years from now
| I should probably take another look at urbit, but the last time I did I couldn't make sense of anything they were talking about. The jargon was too dense and inscrutable for me. |
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ckester |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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04-10-2020, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| (28-09-2020, 07:55 AM)freem Wrote: My understanding of it is that some tiling WMs'users can/must choose between a set of predefined layouts, instead of having to build those on the fly (which is i3 ... |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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27,344 |
02-10-2020, 05:05 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| (25-09-2020, 04:38 AM)venam Wrote: I keep thinking about this thread and I feel like the division between tiling and stacking is very limited.
Quote:Generically, window managers have two parts, the... |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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55 |
27,344 |
25-09-2020, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
| (04-07-2017, 11:40 AM)acg Wrote: Why not do this with a terminal multiplexer?
One advantage in letting the wm tile several terminal emulator windows, rather than using a terminal multiplexer in a si... |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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55 |
27,344 |
25-09-2020, 06:14 PM |
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Thread: managing dotfiles with gnu stow
Post: RE: managing dotfiles with gnu stow
| (14-09-2020, 08:15 AM)z3bra Wrote: I think managing dotfiles is adding complexity and pain to an environment.
I'm growing strangely fond of the suckless folks' approach using a config.h to compile c... |
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ckester |
GNU/Linux
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23 |
14,578 |
15-09-2020, 11:30 PM |
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Thread: Gopher anyone?
Post: RE: Gopher anyone?
| I'm old enough. But although I remember being aware of gopher's existence back in the early 90's, I never actually used it. I found the USENET newsgroups more interesting, especially comp.lang.c. ... |
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ckester |
Old school stuff
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28,634 |
15-09-2020, 10:59 PM |
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Thread: How Many Ways To Start An Xserver
Post: RE: How Many Ways To Start An Xserver
| (13-09-2020, 02:31 PM)vain Wrote: The final "startx" script is generated through automake and friends.
automake has friends?
/sarc |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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11 |
44,188 |
13-09-2020, 04:35 PM |
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Thread: Programming book recommendations.
Post: RE: Programming book recommendations.
| Thanks for the recommendation!
After a quick look at the table of contents, I think the title of that book is well-chosen. It does indeed appear to go beyond what I think of as software architecture... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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21 |
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09-09-2020, 04:01 AM |
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Thread: What does your relatives think of you, and your *nix hobby?
Post: RE: What does your relatives think of you, and you...
| My kids just roll their eyes when I get going on one my monologues about the wonders of Unix. They just barely tolerate me, like some people put up with the rants of a crazy old uncle at family gathe... |
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ckester |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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18 |
7,568 |
08-09-2020, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: Programming book recommendations.
Post: RE: Programming book recommendations.
| I recently ordered this one and am looking forward to reading it:
Cristina Videira Lopes, Exercises in Programming Style 2nd Edition
Quoting from the book description on Amazon:
Quote:Using a simple... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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21 |
7,737 |
08-09-2020, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
| (07-09-2020, 10:39 AM)mcol Wrote: Can you guess my favourite colours?
Um, purple? |
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ckester |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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07-09-2020, 06:41 PM |
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Thread: Sci-fi and Futurism
Post: RE: Sci-fi and Futurism
| One of my guilty pleasures is reading any of Larry Niven's "Known Space" or "Man/Kzin Wars" books.
I've also read and enjoyed space operas like Alastair Reynolds's "Revelation Space", but hesitate to... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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04-09-2020, 06:25 PM |
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Thread: this week work?
Post: RE: this week work?
| (03-09-2020, 11:38 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: (26-08-2020, 08:09 PM)ckester Wrote: Looking at replacing ncurses with BSD curses as a possible way to reduce the size of my ncplay program.This sounds inte... |
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ckester |
Off topic
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04-09-2020, 12:56 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
| (17-08-2020, 08:58 PM)ckester Wrote: 469K, statically linked and stripped when using musl libc, ncursesw, libev, and libid3tag. I need to do some analysis to see if I can get that smaller.
After tw... |
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ckester |
Programming On Unix
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186,376 |
28-08-2020, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: Lighter versions of sites
Post: RE: Lighter versions of sites
| I agree, we need to applaud and support simpler sites like these. |
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ckester |
The WWW
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28-08-2020, 06:22 PM |
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Thread: this week work?
Post: RE: this week work?
| Looking at replacing ncurses with BSD curses as a possible way to reduce the size of my ncplay program. |
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ckester |
Off topic
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26-08-2020, 08:09 PM |