This is only a test - December 5, 2015
Just sweeping some dust out of the old blog, and trying out a new production tool.
More to come.
Soon.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Saturday, July 11, 2015
A Brief Note in the Window
So... Been a long time.
The reasons are legion, and maybe I'll go into them one of these days.
Foremost amongst them was spending nearly two years on the road, living in hotels, and doing the six-day week. With a goodly bit of travel on all those intervening days. Fun. Needless to say, free brain activity wasn't exactly a big thing with me.
But, for now, those days are somewhat behind me. I recently managed to get back closer to home, even though I still end up driving a good bit for work. But, I'm home, so...
More horrible, computer-wise, was that I was basically stuck with the scourge of the modern business world, Windows. Because of the business and government websites that I often had to access, I was stuck with using Internet Exploder...er, Explorer for work. So, I spent a great deal of my in-office time staring at Windows 8.1, and Microsoft Office. Not exactly soul-enriching, that.
When I came back, I found myself drifting back into the Macintosh realm. I started to rediscover some of the creativity tools available (like Scrivener, Ulysses, and Nisus Writer Pro), and began to fall in love with them again.
However, the call of FOSS kept, well, calling. Sadly, my beloved Crunchbang had fallen by the wayside. I had to move on, so I went in a completely different direction, and took up with Fedora, which I quite liked. But I've had my eyes on several other distros. I found myself drifting back towards Debian, version 8.1 which I recently installed on my newest Thinkpad, a T440p snagged 2nd/3rd hand refurbished. I even recently found a new version of Puppy Linux, called "PuppyBang" that I really want to try. (Grabbed the ISO, but haven't zapped it onto a thumb drive yet.)
I had to do a mass migration of my old computers out to storage, and one of those was my T400, the SlackBox. It, and my copy of the SlackBook, got packed away.
Today, though, I managed to get out to the storage building and get my Slack stuff back out. (I had to exchange a couple old junker Powerbooks for them, but...) So, after a round of updates/upgrades (and something I'd not gotten round to before, installing multimedia codecs), I have Slackware 14.1 up and running again. I'm typing this on it right now.
And, I grabbed a current copy of the ArchBang ISO, and burned it. I kept out a couple clunker laptops, and intend to use them to do some software testing, and ArchBang is going to be my first candidate, giving myself a slightly closer look at the Arch world than Manjaro did. (I've also heard of some CrunchBang replacement candidates out there. And I also want to get some playtime in with Viperr, the French OpenBox Fedora spin, and VSIDO, the Debian "unstable" distro with FluxBox, which looks interesting.)
So many things for one fool to do... Maybe I'll come up with some stuff to toss out here on the blog.
We shall see...
The reasons are legion, and maybe I'll go into them one of these days.
Foremost amongst them was spending nearly two years on the road, living in hotels, and doing the six-day week. With a goodly bit of travel on all those intervening days. Fun. Needless to say, free brain activity wasn't exactly a big thing with me.
But, for now, those days are somewhat behind me. I recently managed to get back closer to home, even though I still end up driving a good bit for work. But, I'm home, so...
More horrible, computer-wise, was that I was basically stuck with the scourge of the modern business world, Windows. Because of the business and government websites that I often had to access, I was stuck with using Internet Exploder...er, Explorer for work. So, I spent a great deal of my in-office time staring at Windows 8.1, and Microsoft Office. Not exactly soul-enriching, that.
When I came back, I found myself drifting back into the Macintosh realm. I started to rediscover some of the creativity tools available (like Scrivener, Ulysses, and Nisus Writer Pro), and began to fall in love with them again.
However, the call of FOSS kept, well, calling. Sadly, my beloved Crunchbang had fallen by the wayside. I had to move on, so I went in a completely different direction, and took up with Fedora, which I quite liked. But I've had my eyes on several other distros. I found myself drifting back towards Debian, version 8.1 which I recently installed on my newest Thinkpad, a T440p snagged 2nd/3rd hand refurbished. I even recently found a new version of Puppy Linux, called "PuppyBang" that I really want to try. (Grabbed the ISO, but haven't zapped it onto a thumb drive yet.)
I had to do a mass migration of my old computers out to storage, and one of those was my T400, the SlackBox. It, and my copy of the SlackBook, got packed away.
Today, though, I managed to get out to the storage building and get my Slack stuff back out. (I had to exchange a couple old junker Powerbooks for them, but...) So, after a round of updates/upgrades (and something I'd not gotten round to before, installing multimedia codecs), I have Slackware 14.1 up and running again. I'm typing this on it right now.
And, I grabbed a current copy of the ArchBang ISO, and burned it. I kept out a couple clunker laptops, and intend to use them to do some software testing, and ArchBang is going to be my first candidate, giving myself a slightly closer look at the Arch world than Manjaro did. (I've also heard of some CrunchBang replacement candidates out there. And I also want to get some playtime in with Viperr, the French OpenBox Fedora spin, and VSIDO, the Debian "unstable" distro with FluxBox, which looks interesting.)
So many things for one fool to do... Maybe I'll come up with some stuff to toss out here on the blog.
We shall see...
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