Livin' La Vida Debian

Happy as hell with Debian, simple as that.
Daily driving with the T410 -on its second incarnation- and running Debian, of course- is nothing but joy.
Really, but I mean, really tempted to migrate all of my lappies to Debian.

202K and counting!

Yessss!
Another thousand up, really don't know where (or how) this whole thing is gonna end.

Movies During The Weekend

A short and completely convulsed by work weekend around here, so... Not many movies this time... Actually we only watched one, we really finished that one, since we started with it last weekend.

2001:
Well, there is nothing I can say about this one.
I simply love it and I never get tired of re-watching it.

The Orville:
We continued watching the series, and so far, I have to say that the GF and I both love it.

The Current Debian Desktop

Another one from my current daily driver Debian lappie.
This one playing a bit with tiling windows, using stiler, which works sort of Okish.
The theme is Adwaita-Slim-Dark, and the icons are Papirus Dark.

The Mighty Wild Shore

After the MTV book, started right away with another one.
Science fiction this time, another Kim Stanley Robinson, this time his first book, "The Wild Shore".
Got this one on Spanish, and also got a lot of commute time this past weekend, so I'm racing thru this one, I'm about 30% done, seems really entertaining and also, one of my favorite subjects, post apocalypse.

Saturday Night Pasta

Ok, once again is Bizarro World around here...
Another Saturday with pasta, a mighty lasagna, with, on top of it, the added of the GF's stew.
The thing was, to put it simply, out of this world.

I Finally Got My MTV

Yeah, well, took me something like three months, but I finally finished it, lots of work and stuff to do all the time make reading something really hard these days.
Loved the book, it was interesting and entertaining.

Sunday Night Milanesas

Yeap... Saturday... Not Sunday...
This past weekend was sort of Bizarro World Weekend... Everything upside down and in disarray :p
Oven cooked sweet potatoes, the now famous milanesas, and on top of that, and amazing potato omelette, everything hand and lovely done by the amazing GF.

The Current Debian Desktop

The first Debian screenshot around here, at least on while.
I really love this setup, I mean Debian on the T410, smooth as silk the whole thing.
This is using a custom made GTK2 theme I've been playing around a bit, Xfce-Grey.

Naked picture of the desktop.

Movies During The Weekend

An extra large weekend with a holiday on Monday, also, it was frigid, so we watched a shit load of movies with the GF.

Siberia:
Boring... A piece of crap, really. The GF wanted to see this one.
Remind me a lot to argie movies.

Deadpool 2:
The first one was waaayy better.
Best of the movie was the post-credits clips, maybe.

Battle of the Sexes:
Amazing cinematography and art direction, but it got something like three or four different attempts to finally go thru the whole movie.

2001:
We had to interrupt this one cold, due to a little emergency. Luckily it didn't escalate onto something tragic.

The First of Many (To Be Deleted)

The other day it was time to install a new one, and now time to delete an old one.
Life, right? What can I say... :p

201K and counting!

And another thousand up.
The 200K are already on the rear view mirror and nothing can't stop music :p

Saturday Night Pasta

Yes, pasta on a Saturday night... The GF insisted... The world will end now...
A steamy mighty piece of amazing lasagna, drowned on carrots.

Cleanliness Is Close To Thinkpadness

A quick cleaning of the innards of the T410.
It wasn't that dirty, but re-tightening all the screws did wonders.

Nose Dive

Winter is not dead yet, dude! Bring it on! Mighty nose dive on Saturday night around here.
But, one thing is for certain. there will be not snow this year either.

Debian Stretch on the Thinkpad T410

A little screenshot of the fresh Debian setup on the T410, or the XFCE desktop, actually.
Nothing new, the standard comfy & usable ole XFCE.

The install went really smooth, only thing I had to setup// install after the actual installation was the non-free drivers for the WiFi card (iwlwifi).

As usual, an encrypted LVM, with a whole partition for / (to save disk space).

As for packages, also went for the usual.
Of course XFCE, SSH Server & the mandatory "Standard System Utility".
IIRC, it somethig less than 2 GB of HDD space when finished.

The screenshot on the left shows stuff as it is with all the necessary packages installed to call this setup home, that is, on top of the base XFCE install:

• Zile
• Chrome
• Dropbox (at least for now)
• OpenVPN
• Evolution
• Links2

I obviously have to fix that icon volume on the Panel ultra ASAP... It reminds me of the whole Wicd icon thing a couple of weeks ago.

The Current Devuan ASCII Desktop

Another, yes, another Devuan Screenshot...
I really like this setup, too bad the T60 is so damn slow for today's standards, its screen is mind blowing amazing and the lappie still feels rather sturdy.

T410 Second Time Around

Will see how this goes and all that...

Movies During The Weekend

A magnificent weekend, even tho winter seems to be receding...

A Quiet Place:
Cool one, we wanted to see this movie for quite a while.
I didn't know anything about this movie until I go to see it, heard about it was really good, but, IMHO, it was a bit over hyped by the critics.

Dr. Strangelove:
A re-watch for me, first time for the GF.
A true classic that never ages.

The Orville:
Watched the first two episodes.
Is nice, a really good homage to our beloved series, sort of a mix between Futurama and Star Trek, narrated by the dog from Family Guy.

Sunday Night Pasta

Our usual pasta night, this time with an extra roomy portion of raviolis, as usual with the GF stew and on this case also with white sausage.
Of course, everything drowned on some carrots, that got a bit too much cooked.

200K and counting!

And without further ado... 200K, biotches!
Just a little shy of eight years on the making.

The Current Devuan ASCII Desktop

Another shot, this time, using the Mint-Y icons from Linux Mint 19.
The GTK theme, once again, is Victory
I love this theme, clean, light, a really nice one; it goes hand in hand with the Greybird xfcewm theme.

Damn Rodent & (another) Mighty Chocotorta

A relaxed, sort of cloudy and not too cold Saturday with some chores and a prize, or reward.
Had to fix GF's mouse, the little bugger stopped working... Snapped it open, juggle a little bit with the cables and it decided to work again... Go figure...

Good thing of all of this, I get a new chocotorta.

Fuck You, Dropbox!

Dropbox will become unusable for me in November.
There is no way I'll not use encryption on my laptops, so bye & bye and fuck off.
Back to local external HDD and custom made scripts to sync stuff between boxes.
What a fucking piece of shit move, man.

Links:

• Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4

• Dropbox client warns me that it'll stop syncing in Nov, why?

Linux Mint 19: The LightDM Got Thicker

And yet another problem with the "LightDM situation" on Linux Mint 19...
This whole thing with the hanged login window is really, really annoying; I´m not upgrading to LM 19 all of my boxes just because of it.

Sunday Night Pasta

Taken last Sunday.
And what a magnificent pasta it was!!!!
Mighty Sorrentinos Juveniles, glowing with melted mozzarella cheese!
The Juveniles denomination is made by the pasta place, and they are the opposite of the Sorrentinos Marplatenses, but either those are fucking delicious.

The Lows Are Still Amazing

Ok... Winter is still lowering the marks, but, maybe I'm wrong, but you can feel the end of this is near... Dam hot weather is lurking, waiting to send everything to fucking hell.

Movies During The Weekend

Three movies during this, sort of relaxed and cool, and quiet weekend. All of the movies were a first for me as well as the GF.

Mr. Smith Goes To Washington:
Man, that was a cool movie, as usual Capra delivers.
Unbelievable, I didn't see this one before.
Funniest part was the tugs attacking children, something as un PC as it can be, unseen & unheard on today's Hollywood.

Avenger Infinity War:
A piece of shit.
Who the hell goes to a cinema to see this piece of crap?

Ghost Stories:
The best of the bunch, and a really good one too. Scary, but scary good, bot the GF and I enjoyed this one a lot. Obviously, this one was a request of the GF and her eternal love for terror movies.

The First of Many

Kernel update for the T60 and its current incarnation with Devuan.

Thinkpad T43: CLI Only Devuan

                                     @dv01
     ..,,;;;::;,..                   OS: Devuan 2.0 ascii
             `':ddd;:,.              Kernel: i686 Linux 4.9.0-7-686-pae
                   `'dPPd:,.         Uptime: 5h 58m
                       `:b$$b`.      Packages: 354
                          'P$$$d`    Shell: bash 4.4.12
                           .$$$$$`   CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.86GHz @ 1.866GHz
                           ;$$$$$P   GPU: AMD/ATI RV370/M22 [Mobility Radeon X300]
                        .:P$$$$$$`   RAM: 36MiB / 2018MiB
                    .,:b$$$$$$$;' 
               .,:dP$$$$$$$$b:'   
        .,:;db$$$$$$$$$$Pd'`       
   ,db$$$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`           
  :$$$$$$$$$$$$b:'`               
   `$$$$$bd:''`                   
     `'''`                       
                                 
This is right after the initial install, with all the updates (and a new kernel) installed.
The only extra package is zile, so I can use a decent enough text editor.

It is using just a bit less than 1 GB:

  Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  udev                      1000M     0 1000M   0% /dev
  tmpfs                      202M  520K  202M   1% /run
  /dev/mapper/dv01--vg-root   35G 1019M   32G   4% /
  tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
  tmpfs                      404M     0  404M   0% /run/shm
  /dev/sda1                  236M   60M  164M  27% /boot


It is using 24 MB of the 2GB of RAM available:

                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
  Mem:           2.0G         24M        1.8G        520K        186M        1.7G
  Swap:          2.0G          0B        2.0G

Software to install:

zile
openssh-server
elinks
links2
rtv
mutt
mp3 player (Has to scrobble to last.fm, lloks like it'll me cmusfm)

Things to configure:

CLI cursor (Done. echo -en "\e[?6;2;32c")
CLI font
CLI color

199K and counting!

And another thousand up.
That 200K is within my grasp.

B&W Terminal VLC

VLC on the console, IMHO, the only way to use this is with the '--nocolor' flag.

The Current Devuan ASCII Desktop

And another shot, seems like I'm kinda addicted to -sort of- ricing this Devuan setup...
This time, at last, I've been able to configure the damn wicd icons on theXFCE Panel.

Saturday Night Milangas

Damn!!!
Fucking amazing Milanga Night last night with amazing canastitas with ricotta cheese and spinach, and, on top of that oven cooked potatoes.

Devuan ASCII: Replace wicd Icons on XFCE Panel

The stock wicd icons on Devuan, at least for XFCE which is what I've used, look ugly as hell...

(The wicd icon is that green/ black blob square...)

So, in order to make it look more modern, like this:

Download the new subtle icons from Alternate Wicd Tray Icons and then, on a Terminal do:

cd ~/Downloads/ 

and untar the downloaded file.

Then:

cd /usr/share/wicd/icons/hicolor/22x22/

And make a backup of the original icons:

sudo cp -r status status.ORIG

Copy the new icons, on this case, I'll be using the light colored ones, so:

sudo cp ~/Downloads/wicd-pale/* /usr/share/wicd/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/

If the dark icons were to be used, then:

sudo cp -R ~/Downloads/wicd-dark/* /usr/share/wicd/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/

After copying the files, changes are immediate.

Sunday Night Pasta

The now classics Sunday night raviolis, with a shit load of carrots, and of course, the mighty GF stew.

Amazing Lows

This winter seems never ending.
I'm positive we'll fry once is over, specially if see what a hell is going on right now in pretty much the whole Northern hemisphere.

Movies During The Weekend

It was kinda of an hectic weekend around here, so ... Only one movie during this past frigid and rainy weekend.

Gotti:
Well... This one was kinda bad, to be honest. Specially the kid cast as Gotti's son... Man, he's made of wood, nevertheless the cast seems good.
Anyways, the movie is nothing to write home about it.

The Current Devuan ASCII Desktop

And another one...
And yet still the wicd icon on the Panel laughs at me mercy-less... Damn, that's an ugly icon...