spiralofhope

Five Things >

• Porteus is now a live project.

  • I haven’t started playing with it yet, though.

• Salix was almost a live project.

  • But it was killed in preference of Porteus, because I’m interested in the LXQt desktop environment to get away from GTK+ applications.

• SystemRescueCD was updated.

  • I have it on a new USB stick.
  • I just wanted quick access to GParted, but other tools are nice to have.
  • I still have boot-repair.

• Movies was fiddled with, for what that’s worth.

  • I’m doing some (real-world) organizing that’ll let me haul everything out and write posts for these items, even if those pages are mostly-empty for a while. That way at least the tagging will organize them and note recommendations.
  • I know I’ve been interested in other blogs which have lists of, for example, science fiction movies. Maybe one day I’ll get into list-building and better reviews.

• Batch file programming was created.

  • It’s a very old project which may end up having all kinds of stuff dumped into it.. but not any time soon. When/if my HP 200LX is repaired, I’d definitely have motivation to re-examine this topic.

• Launchy was created.

  • I was sick and tired of hunting through Windows 10‘s idiotic menu.
  • Unfortunately, Launchy doesn’t work as expected. Sigh.

• Push To Talk was created.

  • This is necessary for roll20.net‘s virtual tabletop.

Song of the day ∞

• Conjure One Ft. Mel Garside – Satellite Girl

  • YouTube > Conjure One – (Topic) (on Wikipedia)
  • YouTube > Melanie Garside

Bookmarks of the day ∞

• Internet was updated with a new “Connection information” section.

• Greenshot got a couple of alternatives appended.

  • I think I’m going to make it a thing to just dump related software in on a program that I currently use. Then if I switch away, I have the list right there.

• YouTube > Recommended upload encoding settings

Five Things >

• HP 200LX was updated with some more links.

• Reading has been updated.

  • It turns out that some fiction recommended by programmers ended up in Programming reading list.
  • (probably recommended by Cynbe)
• Programming + Reading > Programming reading list has been updated by request.

• Windows > Windows 10 > Windows 10 installation from USB was created as a new project.

  • I’m redoing a bunch of computer-related things, so I may as well get a fresh install going and then revisit Windows 10 configuration.

Five Things >

• Entertainment > Media Websites was added.

  • With content absorbed from Music, Movies, Reading.
  • One central place seems appropriate, seeing as there is overlap between them, especially between movies and television.

• Movies >

  • Criminal – (2016 movie) was added.
    – Kevin Costner’s role could have been played by anyone, but it’s still decent.
  • Timecrimes – (2007 movies)[doesn’t exist] was added.
    – Although low-budget straight science fiction can go very, very wrong, for some reason time travel movies come out exceptionally well.

Bookmarks of the day ∞

• Software > https://sourceforge.net/projects/jtcfrost/

  • Freenet, with newsgroup-like messaging, private encrypted messages, file upload and download functionality and a file sharing system.

• Reading (Reddit)

  • https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromretail