The irc log in the screenshots shows a few things. Tommer helping me, for one thing. Jakub Steiner doing what he does best (which is getting into the interesting screenshots). Instructions for how to use this awesome software to rotate my display the same way I can rotate the screen which is displaying it.
carol@bread:~$ xrandr -q SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh *0 1680 x 1050 ( 427mm x 267mm ) *60 1 1280 x 1024 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 2 1024 x 768 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 3 800 x 600 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 4 640 x 480 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 Current rotation - normal Current reflection - none Rotations possible - normal left inverted right Reflections possible - none carol@bread:~$
Credit for the "what about that guy" joke goes to Rich Hall, from the Saturday Night Live years he was on. He used to contribute to their news show by showing photographs of famous occasions with himself pasted into them. Jimmac did not invent this. Nor did David Letterman when he would point out weird people in photographs on his show in the nineties.
Credit for making the irc moment for Jakub to paste himself into goes to me and Tommer. Credit for remembering who did this in my life (or on my television set) goes to me as well. Credit for the screenshot that is not inverted goes to whoever wrote xwd to do that and Tommer and yosh for finding such a great computer and allowing me so much more indebt-ness to him so that I do not have to sit here alone in Sillycon Valley with the hand-me-down I brought with me when I came.
Credit for misspelling personnel goes to me, Carol Spears.
posted at Thu, 28 Dec 2006, 13:28
Wed, 12 Jul 2006
funny and fun screenshots
There is a commercial on the television right now in which a persona of a Windows computer is bragging about having a calculator. This is a screenshot of my calculator.
I don't feel so badly about this. My goal was to build a minimum of software to get as much very productive and picky software working properly as possible. First everything between bash/x11 and gtk+. My idea became to install what ever x11 files were needed myself, leaving Debian to run the display and whatever software I build to use my files to work with. GIMP with GAP and the python interpreter, xscreensaver with gl, mplayer and I couldn't stand it with twm any longer and broke down and installed everything that I needed from xfce4 from xfwm backwards and then from xfwm4 forward to the panel and a working menu-editor. The goal here is to get a screenshot with everyone who is here in this one and mplayer playing Elephants Dream right after I repartition a harddrive and move the movie to its home.
I messed up in the middle of the mesa gl stuff trying to make my own xscreensaver. I have all sorts of debian '-dev' binaries now. I am trying to put together my notes to see where I failed.
It's interesting to see what icons every application brings with it.
[category:bread|gtk-rehersal-and-xcalc]
posted at Wed, 12 Jul 2006, 17:02
Tue, 04 Jul 2006
My small GIMP
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken
carol@crouton:~/>
Classic GIMP Layout
Unencumbered with a desktop environment and with only twm interfering with me and GIMP, I set up what I thought was a nice classic GIMP layout which keeps the spirit of gimp-1.0 and gimp-1.2 yet adds some of the nice things that are not so easy to find in gimp2.
[category:bread|my-small-GIMP]
posted at Tue, 04 Jul 2006, 14:15
bash: fortune: command not found
bash: fortune: command not found carol@bread:~/> gimp& [1] 21992 bash: gimp: command not found carol@bread:~/> /usr/local/bin/gimp& [2] 21993 [1] Exit 127 gimp bash: /usr/local/bin/gimp: No such file or directory carol@bread:~/> /usr/local/bin/gimp-2.3 & [3] 21994 [2] Exit 127 /usr/local/bin/gimp carol@bread:~/> This is a development version of GIMP. Debug messages may appear here. carol@bread:~/>
Screenshot gallery
I was unable to install planet today because I did not have bunzip2 or even libbz2. I was also unable to work with pyblosxom on my new computer because I do not have enough c++ compiler. What I do have is a bunch of screenshots that are at least funny (i broke down and changed the color of twm because I couldn't stand it any longer). I am working right now with most of the software that had been available to me in 1998. Installing things slowly and looking at it while you are installing it -- it really starts to read like a beaten up path through a really nice native land, or something.
[category:bread|fortune-command-not-found]
posted at Tue, 04 Jul 2006, 14:11
Sun, 25 Jun 2006
crouton
You can be replaced by this computer. carol@bread:/> uname -a carol@bread:/> Linux bread 2.6.16.7 #1 Mon Apr 17 21:38:42 PDT 2006 i686 GNU/Linux carol@bread:/> lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.3 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] 00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) 00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 IEEE-1394 Controller 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. G400/G450 (rev 04) carol@bread:/>
If I knew what I do, I would know if this was a compliment or not.
It would also be nice to know how many other people can be replaced with this computer.
[category:bread|fortune-replace]
posted at Sun, 25 Jun 2006, 21:33