One of the surviving drives is a 40g with a very old Ubuntu/LAMP Stack installed on it, last running in a 200mhz Pentium 1 in 2010, according to the label. It is my original FreeCIV 2.2 server, back when I was developing web integration tools for that version and running the server tunneling through my […]
Category: The Linux Chronicles
NCV001 – a Cinema Verite From MiniDV to DVD!
My first attempt got et by the ZR-20. These are the hazards of analog. :D First hook up the camcorder to the firewire port and turn it on in “VCR” mode, and rewind the tape to the beginning. Next we check to make sure the Firewire card can be seen by the system: lspci -nn […]
What’s Happenin’ Now?
Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 3” 1966 Montgomery Ward Signature 440T #D6216161 Weapon of Choice: 2008 Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook Diamondville Intel Atom N270 (1.6 GHz/533Mhz FSB/512K cache) 2gb DDR2 RAM, 8gb PATA SSD, 1200×600 8.9″ screen Intel US15W Express Running: AntiX Linux 19 I know, a tiny machine with a single-core processor is hardly […]
The Adventures of Lef the Elf: Army of Gartyns
We started the Adventures of Lef the Elf way back in 2019, and back then we learned how to keep our first interactive NPC dimension denizen, Gartyn Hejme, forever – as long as we never click the blue check mark over his head and complete his quest. He has been our prisoner for a bit […]
The Linux Chronicles #4: Overcoming the Problem of Trying to Scan Thousands of Two-Sided Pages with a Non-Duplexing Scanner.
Weapon of Choice: 1957 Tower Commander And this is after I already chewed through two volumes… I’m not real sure where I’ll store these Victor manuals after they’re scanned. The shelves are gettin’ pretty full of reference material. Wildlife Photography indoors. Everything’s indoors… The Process: First I scanned the whole book on one side, saving […]
Big Screen Madness!
Weapon of Choice: “Bubbles”, 1960 Smith Corona Galaxie Screencap of the entire virtual desktop. My God – it’s full of STARS! Magic Margin’s Gopher Hole, accessible to you if you are on Debian Linux simply by installing Gopher: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gopher and typing “gopher gopher://gopher.magicmargin.net“ as the applications go to bed […]
UJTU: What’s on my desk, yet more TRB discounts and my 30 days without Windows coin…
Weapon of Choice: “Adwoa” 1961 Swissa Junior Photoshop 7 running in Linux/XFCE. It works, mostly – at least everything I need to work does work. And yeah, an outdated version of Photoshop from 2002 does a lot of things that Gimp and Krita do not do. Things I need still, like CMYK support, batch scripting, […]
The Linux Chronicles #3: RiftCasting and KdenLive
Screenshot of KdenLive linear video editor, editing out the awkward pauses between words in the video stream from Guvcview webcam and SimpleScreenRecorder. I’ve not used *any* of these tools before, but in about an hour, I was able to easily put together and edit a video. Very pleased about the performance of this old machine […]
The Linux Chronicles #2: Mah Conky!
Mmm, Conkies. One of the delightful things about X11 is the ability to run an active system resource monitor on your desktop, and theme it pretty much any way you want. I themed mine in TWDB livery. I haven’t had this much fun customizing my wallpaper since the days of the fatally flawed, but oh-so-fun […]
The Linux Chronicles #1: Let’s get Trion’s RIFT Running!
Weapon of Choice: 1962 Triumph Perfekt, Raro #85 Cubic Pica typeface. Yes, I like to wring every last bit of use out of my technology, and I use a lot of technology that most people would consider to be very obsolete. Both of my main use computers were built in 2010, and are rounding out […]