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A middle-aged man in dreadlocks, wearing really clunky aviator glasses. Funky dude.
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And yes, there is a Blackbox for Windows.
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Currently searching for good Blackbox themes. I've built one myself, and am looking for new ones. Got inspiration from this (link courtesy of rainparade. Will post a screenshot soon.
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Anyone know of a good SQL reference that I can download? Something in the order of "SQL in a Nutshell", or something I can use as a command/statement reference.
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Seen on a T-Shirt:
Some people keep on grumbing that roses have thorns; I'm thankful that thorns have roses.
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... switch from BlackBox to WindowMaker? BlackBox— am already getting comfy. WindowMaker— no toolbar to obscure windows, and looks a bit better.
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The first post of the year. Wala lang. Just wanted to make a post.
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... But I'm a tech geek. So sue me. =)
ANYWAY. I (yet again) shot myself in the foot last Saturday by accidentally turning my Linux reiserfs partition into a swap partition. Yes folks, a swap partition. I was resizing my partitions in hopes of separating my /home folders. I was using GNU parted to do the dirty work, and I was close to a breakthrough— I had planned to split my swap partition into swap + /home partition.
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- Bought two 32MB 72-pin EDO SIMMs. Coolness. My box now runs on a 96MB of RAM, and I can safely run resoure-intensive apps without too much disk-thrashing from page swaps. Heck, Linux barely uses my swap partition.
- Reconfig'd my Slackware 8.1 installation, and almost lost all of my files in the process. Was suffering major data loss (and a semi-repeat of an incident under Mandrake), so I decided to test my luck and switch from ext3 to reiserfs. So far so good, as the system is doing better. Less disk access. I tar'd and bzip'd my home directories for the move (as I hadn't set up a separate partition for home directories— my mistake), but after reinstalling Slack, my home directory tar was corrupted (somehow). Spent a whole night recovering data.
- Managed to set up a decent set of keymaps for BlackBox, via bbkeys. My muscle memory for 'Alt-Tab' is so ingrained, I'm using it to switch windows unconciously, even in X-Windows.
- Got myself an old 300MB hard drive, courtesy of a friend of mine. I haven't decided what to use it for, but definitely not for critical data.
hdparm(8)doesn't seem to be working for my hard drive/chipset. Been trying to optimize stuff, but no dice. Running on SiS 5597 (IDE chipset 5513). </ul> </p>
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