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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
It's installed by default and I'm too lazy to change it. |
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Dworin |
BSD
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11-09-2023, 05:38 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
Yep, poor choice of words on my side. I meant plain, boring etc. |
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Dworin |
BSD
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09-09-2023, 11:21 AM |
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Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?
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Dworin |
BSD
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103,095 |
26-08-2023, 06:47 AM |
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Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
(23-08-2022, 05:11 AM)venam Wrote: As for the language, I often avoid installing applications that require a specific language I haven't configured on my machine. Sometimes I feel it's ironic to set... |
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Dworin |
BSD
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113,784 |
26-08-2023, 06:46 AM |
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Thread: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
Post: RE: Idea for a "week of the vintage OS"
(20-08-2022, 01:54 PM)ckester Wrote: (31-05-2021, 09:55 AM)seninha Wrote: 1985 would be too limiting.
CP/M might be an interesting choice for circa 1985.
Bonus points for anyone who has an old Mo... |
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Dworin |
Old school stuff
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12,414 |
26-08-2023, 06:42 AM |
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Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(05-09-2022, 09:08 AM)adi Wrote: Just launched a couple of themes for my simple static site generator , mkws!
I like mkws and am using it for a simple blog (not nix related) |
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Dworin |
Programming On Unix
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401,678 |
01-10-2022, 01:38 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
The puzzled are moving towards mathematics more than algorithmic programming. Today's (day 7) puzzle can be solved by formula. I feel like I'm cheating that way. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-12-2021, 04:58 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
I have spent an unreasonable amount of time (I would definitely not get hired!), mainly because I had to figure out how to read data from a file into my variables. Should be quicker from here on out a... |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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05-12-2021, 08:03 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Post: RE: Nixers Advent of Code Leaderboard
Ha, I joined the board as henkmet.
I'm using octave because I'm really not a coder. You can see my code at https://github.com/henkmet/aoc2021 |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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03-12-2021, 10:00 AM |
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Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management
I simply use a keepass system from cli, called kpcli. I have the file mirrored between two systems, because I may need the passwords there and also in case of disc mishaps. |
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Dworin |
Security & Cryptography
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65,763 |
08-12-2020, 10:57 PM |
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Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
(03-12-2020, 03:36 AM)venam Wrote: but I think most people use them to give a better visual appearance to their laptops.
Probably also to make them recognizable. The number of different laptop model... |
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Dworin |
Hardware talk
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03-12-2020, 04:44 AM |
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Thread: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd you get them?
Post: RE: Stickers! Which one's do you have, where'd yo...
stickers or no stickers, perception and prejudice will be there.
Our new laptop has a radeon sticker. I know this, because the edge curls up and I can't stop myself from fidgetting with it. There is ... |
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Dworin |
Hardware talk
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17,255 |
03-12-2020, 01:57 AM |
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Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Of course I don't use cronjob for everything. Clock and mpd info go through system calls and libmpd respectively. If I were doing the CPU/temp/etc things (in which I have no interest), I'd probably al... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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03-12-2020, 01:36 AM |
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Thread: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
Post: RE: Bar, Panels, Conky, Notifications
I have some info for my bar that I only need to update once an hour. I just have a cronjob dump it in some temp file and have the bar read it from there. I update my bar every second because I have my... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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02-12-2020, 11:43 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
(23-11-2020, 06:34 AM)z3bra Wrote: Resizing windows with the mouse feels more natural, and quick as you simply point where you want the windows to be, rather than press an arbitrary amount of keys i... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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53,692 |
26-11-2020, 02:16 AM |
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Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
I'm experimenting with having my terminal not full-size, though the rest of my system is still tiling. Made a dwm rule (isfloatsingle) to identify progs that should float if they're alone on the tag. ... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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26-11-2020, 02:09 AM |
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Thread: You worst moment on a Unix system
Post: RE: You worst moment on a Unix system
(24-11-2020, 12:36 PM)venam Wrote: (24-11-2020, 12:21 PM)s0kx Wrote: Earlier today I managed to accidentally create a file name * in a directory with other files. I almost ran
If you want to talk ... |
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Dworin |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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21,777 |
24-11-2020, 10:35 PM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
(24-11-2020, 06:09 AM)pyratebeard Wrote: 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 industri... |
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Dworin |
Off topic
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31,150 |
24-11-2020, 06:19 AM |
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Thread: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
Post: RE: Are you a member of any ~tilde's
I made an account on tilde.town but I don't really know what to do there. I guess it's not really for me. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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24-11-2020, 05:59 AM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
https://elianetapes.bandcamp.com/album/of-the-air
Drone music on church organ. With the stops slowly going in a nd out to get microtonal and phasing effects. |
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Dworin |
Off topic
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31,150 |
22-11-2020, 10:51 PM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
I'm beginning to realise that full-screen/tiling works for me in many situations but not so much for terminal. The screen is wide, the letters small and that means the eye gets lost moving along the l... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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22-11-2020, 10:45 PM |
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Thread: Tweaking the forum’s night mode
Post: RE: Tweaking the forum’s night mode
A minor tweak with a great effect. I like it. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-11-2020, 12:29 PM |
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Thread: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programming Environment
Post: RE: Nixers Book Club - Book #1: The UNIX Programmi...
Most has been said but some of my observations (even if redundant):
I remember some file system hierarchy 'wars' but in this case, I must confess that older is really not better.
On my systems, only... |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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22-11-2020, 08:39 AM |
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Thread: Keyboard input redirection in X?
Post: RE: Keyboard input redirection in X?
This might be interesting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Key...es_in_Xorg but it kinda stops at the X11 level while 'our' problem occurs after that.
Some info on the process can also be found ... |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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17-11-2020, 12:07 PM |
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Thread: Remote work solution
Post: RE: Remote work solution
I'm glad my pc in office is still up, so I can access whatever files are not on a share. All meetings through either google meet or MS teams, online classes ditto with assignments, tests and later exa... |
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Dworin |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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17-11-2020, 07:46 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...
It may be a good idea (at least for those on archlinux lie me) to install the package group Code:posix to follow along all the examples. For example, I found out I didn't even have Code:ed installed. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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15-11-2020, 07:36 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...
This is a great idea. I hope it will force me to read a bit more on the backgrounds of unix. If we don't go too fast, I'm in. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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14-11-2020, 12:28 PM |
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Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions
(13-11-2020, 09:03 PM)mattrose Wrote: In debian and all of it's derivatives, except for ubuntu 18 and up, Redhat and all of it's derivatives, and Arch and all of it's derivatives /bin/sh is a symlin... |
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Dworin |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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14-11-2020, 12:01 AM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
I had these broken chords from the beginning of 'Colour my world' in my head, so I asked mpsyt to pull up an old Chicago album. (the immediate problem with that is that I'm supposed to finish some hor... |
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Dworin |
Off topic
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13-11-2020, 10:56 AM |
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Thread: File extensions
Post: RE: File extensions
Some software expects file extensions ((la)tex for example, expects .tex and writes a bunch of files with .aux, .bbl, .log etc). sane writes file extensions when scanning etc, etc. I guess I could jum... |
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Dworin |
Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization
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12-11-2020, 11:52 PM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
That would be https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/passin...ta-to-awk/
Then a website that kept boredom away in hospital last week (spent wayyyy too much time there!)
[Image: https://0x0.st/id5r.png] |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-11-2020, 10:46 AM |
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Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag
Found it on https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/sta...thors.html but I have to zoom in one step to get the same alignment.
here's one more:
[Image: https://0x0.st/idn9.png] |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-11-2020, 09:00 AM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Exactly. Now if you can tell what the first letter stands for, your solution is really complete. Either way, well played, over to you.
With the flags, I was referring to this (famous?) cartoon:
https... |
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Dworin |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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176,215 |
04-11-2020, 02:33 AM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Your first thought was closer. Perhaps daily is a slight exaggeration. |
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Dworin |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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04-11-2020, 02:19 AM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Then it's my turn to try. This should be easy, hope it hasn't been asked before:
My name refers to a storage medium
that is now only found in a museum.
I am used daily by all
and have more flags than... |
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Dworin |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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176,215 |
04-11-2020, 01:44 AM |
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Thread: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]
Post: RE: Nixers Conf 2020 [Recordings and Feedbacks]
z3bra, in your talk you show nearly all scripts and configs but I think you missed ~/.mutt/fmt.conf. Is it possible share that somewhere? |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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03-11-2020, 12:54 AM |
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Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Probably not correct but I was thinking of:
fmt
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Dworin |
Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses
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176,215 |
02-11-2020, 09:57 PM |
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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?Yes, they were very diverse. The one I'm most immediately thinking to apply is the mail setup but ... |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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02-11-2020, 06:44 AM |
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Thread: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
Post: RE: xnotify: popup a notification on your screen
I'm using notify-send/dunst. Quick test shows a popup on top of fullscreen. |
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Dworin |
Programming On Unix
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31-10-2020, 11:18 PM |
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Thread: what are you listening to?
Post: RE: what are you listening to?
(27-10-2020, 08:52 PM)Ramiferous Wrote: On a slight tangent:
I am wondering whether a new thread for this or not, but do people listen to internet radio? if so, what stations?
I listen nearly exclus... |
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Dworin |
Off topic
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31,150 |
28-10-2020, 05:30 AM |
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Thread: Nixers.net Conf 2020
Post: RE: Nixers.net Conf 2020
I'll cast my votes for 1 (I'm one of those who 'will do a backup soon when I have more time') and 3 (I really need to learn mutt) |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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13-10-2020, 09:49 PM |
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Thread: Hey Nixers!
Post: RE: Hey Nixers!
Welcome I0bster. Nice to meet you and enjoy your stay here. |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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07-10-2020, 11:02 PM |
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Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole
That's not how I remember it and Webring also suggests the previous/next links were fixed at time of creation. Incidently, it also mentions webrings became obsolete when search engines were good enoug... |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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06-10-2020, 01:33 AM |
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Thread: Tiling vs Stacking
Post: RE: Tiling vs Stacking
(02-10-2020, 05:05 PM)ckester Wrote: I'm partial to the vertical stack layout myself -- although I sometimes wish I could put the master window on the right when I'm working with two side-by-side mo... |
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Dworin |
Desktop Customization & Workflow
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53,692 |
03-10-2020, 12:35 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?
I autoconnect to #nixers_net, #archlinux, #suckless and #luakit (between freenode and oftc, I keep mixing them up too, very annoying!) |
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Dworin |
Community & Forums Related Discussions
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02-10-2020, 01:16 PM |