Sunday evening update
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mdlbearNot too much accomplished today, beyond getting ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flower_cat onto a modern mail reader (the
The family mostly stayed home;chaoswolf in particular wasn't up to doing much of anything. I went out once to get lunch (frozen potstickers) and once for my walk. flower_cat went out to get snacks for the kids, and herb bread to go with dinner (bean soup).
Spent most of my computer time setting up my new 120GB hard drive. Turns out there's only one machine in the house new enough to recognize it: the little Mini-ITX system I'm currently using as my main client. That's ok, because I was going to use it for recording anyway.
Anyway, the new drive will consist mostly of one huge partition, to be mounted as
More onflower_cat is capable of handling, but has the big advantage that the UI is one she's already familiar with, since it's the newsreader of choice around theStarport. I had to do something because her RMAIL mailbox had gotten wedged, and besides RMAIL doesn't handle MIME attachments. I'll do the configuration myself by hand for a while until I figure out a good way to suck in shared lists (like "household", "filkers", and so on) for the auto-foldering code (which is what makes mail folders look like newsgroups to the reader).
Pretty soon I need to do some major cleanup on
flower_cat onto a modern mail reader (the gnus subsystem of Emacs -- it's more complicated than average, but she's already using it for news and it has the huge advantage of not showing images or HTML unless you tell it to).The family mostly stayed home;
chaoswolf in particular wasn't up to doing much of anything. I went out once to get lunch (frozen potstickers) and once for my walk. flower_cat went out to get snacks for the kids, and herb bread to go with dinner (bean soup).Spent most of my computer time setting up my new 120GB hard drive. Turns out there's only one machine in the house new enough to recognize it: the little Mini-ITX system I'm currently using as my main client. That's ok, because I was going to use it for recording anyway.
Anyway, the new drive will consist mostly of one huge partition, to be mounted as
/media and mostly accessible via the web. There will be a couple of small (5GB) partitions at the front so I can experiment with different Linux distros; currently I have RedHat 9 on it; I need to try Debian and probably Fedora. More on
gnus: It's way more complicated to configure than the flower_cat is capable of handling, but has the big advantage that the UI is one she's already familiar with, since it's the newsreader of choice around theStarport. I had to do something because her RMAIL mailbox had gotten wedged, and besides RMAIL doesn't handle MIME attachments. I'll do the configuration myself by hand for a while until I figure out a good way to suck in shared lists (like "household", "filkers", and so on) for the auto-foldering code (which is what makes mail folders look like newsgroups to the reader).Pretty soon I need to do some major cleanup on
/usr/local and some other stuff in the home Linux environment. It's become incredibly crufty over the years; there's source code for stuff I haven't had to build since I was using Slackware, plus the locally-developed code and the household web sites all mashed together in /usr/local/starport. I have similar problems at work. It's all a natural consequence of my 19-year history as a Unix user. 