In school, the prof teaching my “Intro to the C Language” course, Dr. H, really took the “Baptist” part of OBU to heart. The final project was that he would hand us a text file, a book from the New Testament, and we were to write a C program to generate a concordance (an index) …
Category Archives: Software
Streakhalten
Speaking of daily slogs, at some point I will give up this continuous streak on #Duolingo (I’m “learning” #German). I’m currently at 447 days of streak, which sounds impressive, but I’ve burned up many streak repair “tokens” to maintain that (namely, when sick, or traveling, or whatever). Really, this Duolingo streak thing feels like a …
DROP
Nerd rage. Fixed a recent problem in which I set up the conditions for failure years ago. My Linux PC at home has been having hardware issues. It’s been in service for 13-ish years and, electronically, it’s falling apart. It was kernel panicking while transferring files from my phone over USB3. After enough of this, …
Permanently Disable Tracker in Ubuntu
Ubuntu Gnome Desktop comes with a background service called Tracker that runs a bunch of other sub-services such as tracker-miner-fs, tracker-extract, tracker-store, etc., that do the job of scanning and indexing the files in your user home folder. It’s a service used by the Gnome file manager for speeding up the search bar. This is …
Masto Mentions
Currently testing the #Wordpress #WebMentions plugin. #Shoutout to @phaysis to see how this plays out. Yo. What’s the word, nord?