Monday, March 12, 2012
time not spent
I know this is a pretty empty space that doesn't get updated much, but sometime that may change. I've been looking at web hosts and thinking about exactly what I want to do online. One of these days, maybe.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
AUR installs - for my own sanity.
This is just a note to myself about how to install PKGBUILDS from the AUR.
1. download tarfile from AUR.
2. untar/unzip via Thunar/archiver or on command line
3. makepkg -s (to resolve dependencies with pacman)
4. install with pacman - "pacman -U /path/to/pkg.tar.xz"
just keeping it here so I don't have to go looking every few days when I've forgotten it.
1. download tarfile from AUR.
2. untar/unzip via Thunar/archiver or on command line
3. makepkg -s (to resolve dependencies with pacman)
4. install with pacman - "pacman -U /path/to/pkg.tar.xz"
just keeping it here so I don't have to go looking every few days when I've forgotten it.
Arch Linux, thoughts
I was a big Ubuntu user/follower/supporter for a long time. I still am in a way. I enjoy linux and it's frustrations/achievements and I love the community based help and learning. I think everyone should take as much interest in the tools that they use, and your computer is a tool.
In the end the thing that has pulled me more towards Arch is if anything, just the sheer simplicity and the idea that they try to follow the KISS principles. You as the user are the one who controls what is put on your system. You are the one who has to do the research and try to find the solution to the problems you are having. If you've not done the basics of troubleshooting yourself, then, while you will still find people to help, you probably won't find as many of them. I am encouraged by the trends I see.
People are and need to take control over the systems that they use and understand what goes into the workings of them. Should everyone know how to code? Not really, but they need to be willing to sit down and say, when I do this, the system does that. Here's all the information I've been able to find about it. Where can I go to fix this.
Not - fix it for me. I don't know what it is doing, I don't know what hardware I have or etc etc etc. I find all the time that people are less than willing to take the basic steps of doing just a little bit of research on their own and want you to do it all for them. I'm tired of it and I find the fact that I need to make the effort to understand my system and read and search for the information refreshing.
Back to Arch, because that really got away from the title didn't it? I like it that I need only find what I want to run, when I want or need to run it instead of having things shoved at me and changed on a whim (Unity anyone?). The bloat that was Gnome and KDE have made me run in the opposite direction towards XCFE4 as my desktop. I use chromium as my browser - still working on getting it working as the low memory model through the panel, instead of from the terminal, but that's the joy of figuring things out eh? I do a lot of things from the command line. I've even gotten into the pkgbuild and AUR items that are way more trouble (joke) than any form of .deb nonsense I ever went through before.
Arch is, just to me, a simple more elegant way of doing things. Only what I need and only what I want.
In the end the thing that has pulled me more towards Arch is if anything, just the sheer simplicity and the idea that they try to follow the KISS principles. You as the user are the one who controls what is put on your system. You are the one who has to do the research and try to find the solution to the problems you are having. If you've not done the basics of troubleshooting yourself, then, while you will still find people to help, you probably won't find as many of them. I am encouraged by the trends I see.
People are and need to take control over the systems that they use and understand what goes into the workings of them. Should everyone know how to code? Not really, but they need to be willing to sit down and say, when I do this, the system does that. Here's all the information I've been able to find about it. Where can I go to fix this.
Not - fix it for me. I don't know what it is doing, I don't know what hardware I have or etc etc etc. I find all the time that people are less than willing to take the basic steps of doing just a little bit of research on their own and want you to do it all for them. I'm tired of it and I find the fact that I need to make the effort to understand my system and read and search for the information refreshing.
Back to Arch, because that really got away from the title didn't it? I like it that I need only find what I want to run, when I want or need to run it instead of having things shoved at me and changed on a whim (Unity anyone?). The bloat that was Gnome and KDE have made me run in the opposite direction towards XCFE4 as my desktop. I use chromium as my browser - still working on getting it working as the low memory model through the panel, instead of from the terminal, but that's the joy of figuring things out eh? I do a lot of things from the command line. I've even gotten into the pkgbuild and AUR items that are way more trouble (joke) than any form of .deb nonsense I ever went through before.
Arch is, just to me, a simple more elegant way of doing things. Only what I need and only what I want.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Yet again
Yet again we start. So many beginnings and so many abandoned attempts. I've blogged for a long time and have moved around quite a bit over the years. I've been on my own domain 3-4 times and on wordpress.com and here a number of times. I've started and restarted Twitter, been on Facebook, Flickr, Yahoo360 etc. Never saw mySpace or Livejournal. I've got a deviantart account, but have yet to post. I also have a photo.net account and have only ever put 3 photos up there.
That was a fun one the other day. I had not logged in to it for so long and was doing an image search for my photos and saw that it was still active. It took me about 7-8 minutes to finally remember the email I had used and the password as well.
So I guess the upshot it that I'm going to give this another try and see if there is anything I can contribute to this mess on the internet. You can expect some infrequent postings from me about a whole range of topics. I'm not restricting myself to anything in particular, and just can't give you any idea of where this is going to go right now.
That was a fun one the other day. I had not logged in to it for so long and was doing an image search for my photos and saw that it was still active. It took me about 7-8 minutes to finally remember the email I had used and the password as well.
So I guess the upshot it that I'm going to give this another try and see if there is anything I can contribute to this mess on the internet. You can expect some infrequent postings from me about a whole range of topics. I'm not restricting myself to anything in particular, and just can't give you any idea of where this is going to go right now.
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