Geek Stuff category archive
Digital Pravda? 2
Badtux takes to the command line to track down Wikileaks.
Geeking Out 0
For a brief moment, my Windows 7 VirtualBox virtual machine and my Slackware desktop showed the same wallpaper (that’s “background” in Linuxspeak).
Geeking Out 0
Listening to Old Time Radio with Real Player in a VirtualBox virtual machine of Windows 7 on Slackware —Current.
OTR.NET is one of the better Old Time Radio sites; I have made small donations to it several times. Unfortunately, all the files are in Real format, which is one of the most heavily encumbered codecs and requires use of their proprietary, but free player. There was once a Linux version of RealPlayer, but it was abandoned about five years ago.
In case you are wondering, the VM is running a legitimate activated copy of Windows 7 that I purchased via Amazon. Windows 7 CDs are cheap these days.
I’m working with Windows in a VM because there are certain specific items I wish to test. Windows is still a kludge.
Geeking Out 0
Windows 7 in a VirtualBox virtual machine running on Slackware —Current on a Zareason Limbo desktop viewed through a Virtual Network Connection using the TightVNC viewer on Mint 17 running on a Zareason Strata laptop to connect to the X11vnc server on the Slackware box. In the foreground is the apt-get man(ual) page in the Terminator terminal emulator.
(The VNC window falls off the screen because the monitor of the target computer is larger than the monitor of the viewing computer, but it can be moved about with ALT-Left-Click-and-Hold. I would not be surprised that there’s some way to manage that more effectively, but I haven’t learned it yet.)
Droning On 0
What’s in a name? A drone by any other name would reap the same.
No Place To Hide 0
The snaring economy wants to shadow you like a cheap detective.
Meta: QOTD 0
For those who breathlessly wait for QOTD to arrive every day, I have created a QOTD category and moved all the QOTDs (there are almost 2500 and counting) into it, with the help of a nice little WordPress plugin called “Batch-Move Posts.”
The plugin works very nicely, though it could do with clearer instructions.
Aside:
I would have preferred doing it with an SQL query, but I couldn’t find where in the tables WordPress hides the link between the categories and the posts, as it’s changed since I first started using WP.
Droning On 0
Once more, it’s only a matter of time . . . .
At one point, Joseph Roselli allegedly flew the drone as high as 1,500 feet, which is restricted for use by Philadelphia International Airport.
Roselli was charged with risking a catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person, court records show.
Aside:
I was in my local drug store the other day. They had quadcopters for sale on the toy rack.
Thinking is a lost art.
Facebook Frolics 0
There’s another word for “fake news,” y’know. When I was a young ‘un back in the olden days, we called it “lies.”
Twits on Twitter 0
Noah Smith thinks he knows what Twitter’s problem may be.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Twits on Twitter 0
Daniel Ruth doesn’t get the fascination of twitting.
Follow the link for Exhibit B &c.
Selfie-Stuck in the Mud 0
Selfie Sticks are officially passe.
How do I know? There’s one for sale in my most recent Publisher’s Clearing House mailing. (PCH is one of my secret vices. Entering the sweepstakes is cheaper than entering the lottery, and the odds of winning the big one are just about as good. A first-class stamp is a cheap price to pay for a dream.)
The Snaring Economy 0
“Sharing” works both ways.
A District Court grand jury last week indicted the homeowner, Christopher Gregory Rogers, on five counts of capturing an image of the private area of another person, a gross misdemeanor, court records show.