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Angstrom

2016-02-03
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Linux distributions >
Zaurus distributions > Zaurus SL-C1000 >

(on Wikipedia)
was angstrom-distribution.org

Ångström was started by a small group of people who worked on the OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus and OpenSimpad projects to unify their effort to make a stable and user-friendly distribution for embedded devices like handhelds, set top boxes and network-attached storage devices and more.

  • Properly titled Ångström
  • It’s the default Linux distribution for the Pandora.
  • It has/had support for the Zaurus SL-C1000, but I haven’t tested it there.

  • Yocto Project-approved.

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Git on Windows

2016-01-30
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TODO – add my notes, and scripts

Git-Logo-1788C.png

Git >

Provides a reasonable environment for working with Git while trapped on Windows. A console window with Bash, various everyday linux console applications, and git.

I loved it, and used it regularly for sane scripting when trapped on Windows, via bash, as well as for git itself.

I replaced it with Cygwin/Babun.



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Windows 10 symlinks

2016-01-29
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Windows 10 logo

Windows 10 >

Symlinks, variously called junctions, hardpoints and whatever else, exist on Windows. On Linux, it is simply ln.

These are my notes for Windows 10.

Note that if you want to do any of this in a .cmd file, then you will need to elevate permissions. See Running a batch file as administrator on Windows 10.



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Blood – The Last Vampire – (2009 movie)

2016-01-14
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Blood - The Last Vampire (2009) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0806027/
was lastblood.asmik-ace.co.jp
was sonypictures.com/movies/bloodthelastvampire

Vampires are real, and a secret council, whose formation is never explained, support a good-vampire on her mission to mercilessly slaughter bad-vampires in search for the worst-vampire who she was told killed her father.

For a while I was quite captivated by this movie. It was good in every respect, but it seemed to take a turn for the worse half way through, and just kept sliding. Overall it’s good, but elements of it are too similar to other famous movies for me to really find it interesting, especially since those elements are rushed.

It’s decent enough to recommend for a one-time watch.


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Clerks – The TV Show – (1995 show)

2016-01-11
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Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352045/

Stuck at a dead-end job, a guy ignores his girlfriend’s nagging until she uses an old high school enemy to push his buttons.

I’m really really happy this series didn’t get approval. This pilot is a steaming pile of shit. It has nothing to do with Clerks – (1994 movie) and so it cannot build on its mystique, and it isn’t even particularly original or interesting on its own.

  • This is the single pilot episode. The full series was never produced.
  • Kevin Smith, the author of Clerks – (1994 movie) was unaware of this proposed TV show until its casting was under way, during his production of Mallrats – (1995 movie)

  • Properly titled Clerks. (with a trailing period) or more sensibly Clerks: The TV Show



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Heavy Metal – (1981 movie)

2016-01-10
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Heavy Metal (1981) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082509/
https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/heavymetal

A girl kills her father, blows up her house to hide the evidence and flees the scene.

While this might have been good at the time, and particularly notable because of the nudity, it’s only vaguely entertaining like a sort of late-night TV-movie. It’s too low-brow compared to science f
iction movies, too adult compared to fantasy movies and too childish for grownups.



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The Lone Ranger – (2013 movie)

2016-01-09
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The Lone Ranger (2013) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210819/
https://movies.disney.com/the-lone-ranger

A child with an allergy to peanuts hallucinates an indian statue as Tonto telling him a story with the Lone Ranger.

Johnny Depp has started taking terrible cornball roles, and this movie is a steaming pile of shit. His native-American character feels cringeworthingly blackface-esque. I can see how the occasional comedic bit can make a movie fun, but the entire spirit of this movie feels just a touch too serious for there to be the right comedy-adventure feeling like that in Pirates of the Caribbean꞉ The Curse of the Black Pearl – (2003 movie).



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Akira – (1988 movie)

2016-01-09
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I’ll add notes when I re-watch this.

Akira (1988) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/
https://v-storage.jp/sp-site/akira/

In a future Tokyo which has survived a massive explosion, a highschool student motorcycle gang stumbles into a military research program whose earlier efforts lead to that disaster, and they become embroiled in the revived project.

A genre-defining movie on so many levels. It portrays a world unique to those unfamiliar with manga (a form of Japanese comics) and has both great storytelling and incredible animation.

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