2015 archive
Easy Editor: It’s Not Just for BSD 0
Easy Editor running in FreeBSD VM on Slackware –Current.
I have lately been playing with BSD, particularly FreeBSD. (As an aside, the BSD documentation is excellent; the FreeBSD Handbook is one of the best documents of its type that I’ve seen.)
The BSD Handbook suggested that new users use ee (“Easy Editor”), a program I had not heard of before, though the far more powerful and complex vi editor is also included out-of-the-box (in *nix, configuration is generally accomplished through plain text, at least for those distros that have not yet fallen for the seductive blandishments of SystemD).
Just for grins and giggles, I went looking for ee yesterday, and it is surprisingly hard to find. For one thing, search results are flooded with links that promise to provide an “easy editor” for your drag-and-drop (pfui!) web site. As near as I can find, it hasn’t been updated since 2005.
I did find an online copy of the man page and a download page at Softpedia. Its home page, according to Softpedia, is a university in the UK, and said University doesn’t seem to want to talk about it any more.
I downloaded the sources from Softpedia and it did compile and install on Slackware —Current. The *.tgz was less than 70kb in size.
A screen shot showing the pop-up menu, which is invoked by ESC, is below the fold.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness is essential to a strong family structure.
The step-father has been charged with felony child neglect. Follow the link and form your own conclusions about what might just possibly maybe distinguish between “felony child neglect” and “tragic accident.”
Chris-Crossed 0
Alfred Doblin, who at one time thought favorably of Chris Christie, is now less than enamored.
Nor is being blunt a sign of leadership; it’s just rudeness. Being a leader means staying until the job is finished, not until you find something better. Most important, public service is not a means to an end; it is the destination.
Stray Thought 0
It takes a long time to install kde4-baseapps to a VM of FreeBSD using BSD ports.
Playing the Trump Card 0
Dick Polman has a wonder:
Follow the link for more wonders.
Case Studies 0
Republicans: pay attention to what they do, not to what they say.
“Vanity Logging” 0
He must think he is truly a special snowflake.
But “vanity logging,” as it’s sometimes called, could apply to the alleged acts of a lawyer-turned-Zumba instructor who lives outside New Hope.
Police say David L. Topel felled 22 of his neighbor’s old-growth hardwoods – preserved by a conservation easement and worth $260,000 – because they obscured his deck’s southern vista.
“Lawyer-turned-Zumba instructor.” How he missed his true calling as a Wall Street bankster will forever remain a mystery.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Just another day in NRA Paradise . . . .
The family is steadfast in saying it was accidental, as the AP reports.
Sharknado 0
Yep, right here in River City.
The Confederate Party 0
The Booman looks at data from the last two Presidential elections and draws a conclusion.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has reached fruition.
Follow the link for the Booman’s much-more nuanced analysis and predictions.
Mob Scene 0
Dick Polman tries to understand why there are so many clowns in the Republican Clown Bus.* It’s worth a read.
You can see a catalog of clowns here. (H/T to Bad Tux.)
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*Polman left out the part about the Republican base’s having gone insane with racism and bigotry from the triumph of Nixon’s odious southern strategy.