Five Things >

• Updated supermaryface with pictures that actually work. It appears that long filenames are silently failing.

  • No, it wasn't long filenames. With some more checking, it appears that random files disappeared. I'm re-uploading them to see if that makes a difference.
  • No, that made no difference, so I deleted all images and re-uploaded them from backups, confirming they have the correct permissions.
  • Audited 3000+ images and restored some which were broken.
  • Holy shit, other images are broken. Not just broken, but entirely missing. Missing from my backups too. This is fucking weird. I'm auditing this entire blog. I've already finished recent ones, and found a handful of things which are broken. I'll continue this process asap.

• Wow, BadRam is cool.

  • Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules.

• Because I made an Openbox hotkey for Music on Console, I wanted to explore hotkeys for things like volume control.

  • I had some old notes in Multimedia keyboard volume control, OSD without an OSD which I wanted to explore.
  • In doing so, I split off some new pages for aumix, xosd and pvol[doesn't exist]. None of those did it for me, so I'll just use alsamixer, which comes with Slackware 14.1
• Made /tag/audio-software and /tag/media software
• Apparently I had two articles on 3D printing, so I roughly-merged them.

• So I decided to use some images for NumLockX, but instead of some mspaint-esque red circle, I wanted to make something a little nicer. Since I already learned GIMP transparent backgrounds, I wondered if I could create a greyed-image with an ungreyed-area. It turns out I can! Thus GIMP transparency masking was born.

  • Did I mention I love documentation? I have? Well it bears repeating.

• Fuck, EverQuest Next was cancelled!

  • EverQuest Landmark[doesn't exist] continues to exist, but I have no interest in that unless there would be an actual MMO.

• Continued improvements to items in /tag/linux-software+live+liked.

  • Saying that makes me feel like the artists for Path of Exile. Their patch notes pretty much say their equivalent of Minecraft's "removed Herobrine" by saying "incremental improvements to graphics and sound". Which, unlike (at the time) Mojang, was actually true. Little touches at every opportunity, lots of love from Grinding Gear Games.
  • Re-edited past one to state the fact that I last used that program on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS. I'm not compelled to update the pages for non-live programs.

Five Things >

• Updated Path of Exile

  • Split off Path of Exile review to try to tidy things.
  • misadventure - Confirmed my disconnect issue has to do with running BitTorrent at the same time. I'm not sure why, and probably won't explore this.

• Watched some more The Blacklist - (2013 show)