Been on a Fritz Lang binge over the past few weeks: Spiders, Spies, Metropolis, Woman in The Moon, Testament of Dr Mabuse. I’ve seen the original Dr Mabuse too many times to feel like a rewatch right now. M is next, and I wasn’t quite in the mood for that this weekend.

Taking a break with the 6th Terminator flick (“Dark Fate”).

If the package manager on your old PC is keeping copies of everything it installs, just copy all of those packages over and go through the package manager on the new PC. Look under /var/cache

I saw him perform this in the mid 90s. Very fun.

The liner notes for Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music (1975):

Whoa, BSD predates V7? I had no idea.

I’ve been meaning to set up an 11 running 2BSD…

Are the usb disk device names changing?

Yes, although the thing on my desk is just an x-term & media player, so “desktop system” doesn’t mean that much…

Mostly video performance (1080 vid stuttered badly, while it plays fine on the same machine under linux.) & compatability. (Not that I want to run a browser on my x-term, but it would be nice to have as a fallback option. Can’t install anything recent.) Oh, and extended attributes in the filesystem. I REALLY like being able to add name=val tags to a file. It’s immensely useful. That might be my favorite feature of linux? Funny.

Also, I was in the midst of switching from Solaris to Linux on my server, so it just seemed like a good idea to run the same OS on the desktop.

Old droid & Maemo Leste?

(That’s what I use.)

VERY simple. Time & node:

HH:MM node%

Except in the xterm I keep open for dealing with my camera. That’s time & last-word-in-cwd:

HH:MM dir%

Sometimes on a cellphone I will use battery charge percent:

BB%

And when I’m su’ed it’s just:

root%

Yup. Tried that, doesn’t work.

I get good pizza once a month, really good pizza occasionally, and utter crap pizza maybe twice a month. Each has its own appeal. (Oh, and I LOOOOOVE a good calzone / spinach pie. That’s… related.)

Void here too. I was mostly Solaris & OpenBSD for many years, Void is the first linux I’m happy to run on my main machines.

I realized I was going to be comfortable with Void when I saw in the docs that to config the network you just “put the commands in rc.local”. Ha ha. Yes, that’s how you’d do it in 7th Edition Unix! Back to the basics.

A lot of things that we assume can only be made by giant complexes of high-tech equipment were first prototyped by hand on a workbench. This sounds like a great project.

(I don’t know anything about the details of bubble memory. It’s entirely possible this is impossible. Certainly worth looking into though.)

Beyond The Screams (Directed by the lead singer of Los Crudos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZ9iw8U_W0

Probably Diamanda Galas. Saw her perform in the mid 90s.

Yeah, I’m familiar with VMS, and Cutler bringing a lot of the internal design to W/NT. (I’m told in particular a lot of the data structures for system calls in NT look like VMS.) My AIX experience has consisted entirely of “This is weird. This isn’t normal for Unix.” Ha ha. (I had a 1st gen RS/6000 at home briefly in the late 90s.)

And I do have a “grey wall” in my library:

My AIX experience is very limited. What was the VMS connection?

Windows NT ACLs come from VMS.

The Unix world has traditionally not liked ACLs because Multics had them, and Unix was an ultra-minimalist response to Multics.

TeX / LaTex documentation is infuriating. It’s either “use your university’s package to make a document that looks like this:” -or- program in alien assembly language.

I like postscript for graphic design, but not so much for typesetting. For a flyer or poster, PS is great.

Frankenstein is a really great read because the story that “We all know” is drastically different from the book.