Old notes on han
dling .torrent files. They may or may not be obsolete.
As of around 2015-05-26 I’ve switched to Pale Moon. I’ll revisit this if I need to configure Pale Moon similarly.
hacking
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Practicing on regular spine, I came up with an different way of thinking about healing which seems to have helped out significantly.
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I finally pieced a bunch of ideas together. When apart, each has always felt like they were missing something. Put together, and there is an epiphany.
Hackers >
Source: usenet: utastro!nather, May 21, 1983.
A recent article devoted to the macho side of programming made the bald and unvarnished statement:
Real Programmers write in Fortran. [ see Real Programmers Don’t Use Pascal ]
Maybe they do now, in this decadent era of Lite beer, hand calculators and “user-friendly” software but back in the Good Old Days, when the term “software” sounded funny and Real Computers were made out of drums and vacuum tubes, Real Programmers wrote in machine code. Not Fortran. Not RATFOR. Not, even, assembly language. Machine Code. Raw, unadorned, inscrutable hexadecimal numbers. Directly.
So I’ve been farting around after a long break from doing much of anything on Linux. I was prompted by my new hard drive arriving.
I spent some time migrating data from five separate hard drives and a stack of DVDs. One of my next goals was to get backups working, so that I can back up from my SSD to this new drive.
I have an old backup script, but I decided that I could spend this afternoon screwing around with it to optimize it a little.
Using the wonderful mcedit which comes with Midnight Commander, I hacked away. Linux being what it is, there was a tangled horror of stuff I needed to try to remember, look up through my notes, get answers to and/or figure out.
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One of the things that’s been a real killer for me using most wikis has been the syntax. None of them get it right.
MediaWiki has been bearable, and over time I’ve grown used to it. The problem is that nobody agrees on a remotely similar syntax. There were some early efforts to create a generally agreed-upon syntax, and it did fairly well.. but it’s still not used everywhere.
I’m not just talking about wikis, but about markup languages in general. Even something like Ruby’s RDoc decided on its own syntax.
And they’re all wrong. Seriously, who thinks that __this is italicized__ ?
