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reboot

Following an unfortunate update tinuage, your host’s host, fell sick and pucked away all it binaries. Spent maybe 3 hours, with maybe 45 minutes not just watching terminal lines flying by, rebuilding tinuage from scratch (ThrustVPS’ most recent Slackware image is a 13):

1. backup what can be saved
2.install image
3.connect to it

# wget -c http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-13.37/slackware/ap/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-5.tgz
# installpkg slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-5.tgz
# echo "ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/" >> /etc/slackpkg/mirrors
# echo "kde" >> /etc/slackpkg/blacklist
# slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade-all && slackpkg install-new && slackpkg clean-system
# reboot

# wget -c http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-13.37/slackware/ap/slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-5.tgz

# installpkg slackpkg-2.82.0-noarch-5.tgz

# echo "ftp://slackware.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/" >> /etc/slackpkg/mirrors

# echo "kde" >> /etc/slackpkg/blacklist

# slackpkg update && slackpkg upgrade-all && slackpkg install-new && slackpkg clean-system

# reboot

4. create a normal user
5. reconfigure what needs to be
6. restore WP backups

But I can’t follow -current here as the latest glibc requires a kernel 2.6.32 minimum and this runs an positively ancient 2.6.18 (really?!). Oh well, I guess I’ll learn what it feels like running stable software…

screen

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To remember to use screen and have the basic commands memorized I added this at the end of my ~/.zshrc

echo "GNU screen cheat sheet: [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/20711754/Screen-Cheatsheet ]"
echo " screen -S <XXX>  #create new session named XXX"
echo " screen -r <XXX>  #resume a detached session named XXX"
echo " screen -x <XXX>  #attach to running session XXX"
echo " (in screen): C-a d #detach from this session"
screen -list

echo "GNU screen cheat sheet: [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/20711754/Screen-Cheatsheet ]"

echo " screen -S <XXX> #create new session named XXX"

echo " screen -r <XXX> #resume a detached session named XXX"

echo " screen -x <XXX> #attach to running session XXX"

echo " (in screen): C-a d #detach from this session"

screen -list

(full config available @ https://github.com/cycojesus/homeetc/blob/master/zshrc)

0x7dc

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this->skillset += {
   <a href="http://www.americastestkitchenfeed.com/do-it-yourself/2011/08/how-to-make-cold-brew-coffee/" title="How to make cold brew coffee">cold_brew_coffee</a>, // fail
   dvorak, // todo
   android_app, // done
   astrophotography_with_gettho_supported_smartphone, // todo
   <a href="http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html" title="MobileOrg">mobileorg</a>, // doing(?)
   tiếng_việt, // todo
   relax, // possible?
};

this->skillset += {

<a href="http://www.americastestkitchenfeed.com/do-it-yourself/2011/08/how-to-make-cold-brew-coffee/" title="How to make cold brew coffee">cold_brew_coffee</a>, // fail

dvorak, // todo

android_app, // done

astrophotography_with_gettho_supported_smartphone, // todo

<a href="http://orgmode.org/manual/MobileOrg.html" title="MobileOrg">mobileorg</a>, // doing(?)

tiếng_việt, // todo

relax, // possible?

};

Poor man’s Emacs Scrabble®-mode

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An itch I had,
Scratch it I did.

Listen, listener, for here is my story…

Since time’s dawn I’ve enjoyed playing scrabble, then I moved far east. While in Việt Nam my usual, some might say traditional, playing partners went amiss and withdrawal started to show its head. FOSS, as always, came to the rescue and first brought the ancestral xscrabble, then eliot, and lastly scribble. Lovingly I packaged these gifts for my BFF Slackware @ https://github.com/cycojesus/slackbuilds/tree/master/y

But still, user interaction with xscrabble and eliot is far from ideal, requiring a lot of clicks. Scribble is near perfect (if for the lack of a french dictionary…) but where, might you ask, is the Emacs love‽ I too wondered and finally commited this:

(defun cyco:scribble (level)
   (interactive "sLevel(easy:1..9:hard): ")
   (make-term "Scribble-Scrabble" "/usr/games/scribble" nil level)
   (switch-to-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'cyco:scribble)

(defun cyco:scribble (level)

(interactive "sLevel(easy:1..9:hard): ")

(make-term "Scribble-Scrabble" "/usr/games/scribble" nil level)

(switch-to-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'cyco:scribble)

et voilà, nice and neat.

But.

But, what if I start a game, get distracted to another buffer, forget the on-going game, later want again to play and would be pleasantly surprised to have an on-going game? Glad you asked, so there you go:

(defun cyco:run-or-resume-scribble()
  &nbsp;(interactive)
   (if (eq nil (get-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))
      (let ((level (read-string "sLevel(easy:1..9:hard): " "1")))
      (make-term "Scribble-Scrabble" "/usr/games/scribble" nil level)))
   (switch-to-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'cyco:run-or-resume-scribble)

(defun cyco:run-or-resume-scribble()

 (interactive)

(if (eq nil (get-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))

(let ((level (read-string "sLevel(easy:1..9:hard): " "1")))

(make-term "Scribble-Scrabble" "/usr/games/scribble" nil level)))

(switch-to-buffer "*Scribble-Scrabble*"))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s") 'cyco:run-or-resume-scribble)

mission accomplished, procrastinating goal achieved.

[my full emacs' config is @ https://github.com/cycojesus/emacs]

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Poor man’s Emacs Scrabble®-mode