Software: On & Off the Web
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Cool! Unable to get the database to load at the moment so I’ll try again later. Always fun to poke through that stuff, especially the older stuff. 🙂
15 billion and growing! That’s a lot of cat videos! 😛
Google has crawled 130 trillion pages while only indexing 400 billion. Lot of stuff to keep track of! Needless to say, Google runs a heavily modified version of *nix for their servers with a lot of specialty hardware. They used to sell a small mainframe for businesses to help them index internal networks.
Also need to figure out which version of Mash is recommended these days as there are quite a few forks of it. May not be a bad idea for a thread for the knowledge base at some point 🙂
mlox was forked recently but I think the changes were merged upstream a few weeks ago with Dragon32 stepping down. Will need to verify that
mlox is actually for load order management. It’s similar to BOSS but uses a completely different syntax and its code is much simpler. 🙂 I think it stands for Morrowind Load Order Executable. When I was poking about recently, it looked like maintenance was handed over to rfuzzo. They’ve been working on Rust versions of various tools such as one that redoes mlox
I was actually recently asked by someone about converting MWEdit into Rust but I really didn’t see the need and felt it was more work than the benefits (nothing really wrong with C++). May give more details as to my reasoning soon in the MWEdit thread 🙂
From a purely electrical standpoint, you should be able to check it by seeing if there’s current running through that circuit in the absence of an ammeter in the circuit (most chips have one to help keep them from going blooey). Of course, that’d require a logic gate that interfaces with the software side of things. May be possible with OpenCV but I’m not seeing any kind of information regarding webcam interop. I know they can work together as we used it twenty years ago on a robot but I didn’t see the code. When I try searching on Google, I get stuff completely unrelated. Again 😛
Starting to get in the mood to experiment with different window managers again. Last time, I tried OpenBox and I’ve used Fluxbox pretty extensively back around 2008 or so. Leaning towards Awesome or IceWM this go around 🙂
In the past, I’ve mentioned that I dislike the apt package manager. Got an example of a reason!
- Installed Code::Blocks
- Didn’t like the looks of it, so uninstalled
- Realized that APT didn’t uninstall all of the dependencies as they’re suggested packages of other packages even though I didn’t want them in the first place (I’ve never used gdb, for instance)
- Spend thirty minutes trying to track down everything since APT doesn’t keep good logs and I had already cleared the terminal window (most package managers have a revert command to easily reverse an install or have better dependency resolution)
- Finally hunt them down and remove everything
This isn’t really an issue with other package managers and APT also doesn’t have settings to display things in a nice manner. Everything is just displayed on a single line instead of a column view, making it hard to look at at a glance. Its settings file is also poorly documented and the package manager itself lacks a lot of handy features. It’s also very cumbersome to query various package information compared to other package managers. Do like PopOS but not their package manager of choice. /sigh
Yeah, we lost a lot of nice features. I used to use the desktop widgets regularly, mostly for the weather and news. There are still references to them in the Windows 11 system but they’re nowhere to be found. Probably just dead code that was missed during the removal. Did try Rainmeter for a time but it just wasn’t the same (setup was a real pain).
On the Linux front, we have Conky. May look at installing it over here at some point as it can be a fun little program
Yep! We have the nutrition labels! Honestly, I never had issues reading the detailed plan information but I can see how they’d be welcome for most folks. Not sure if my current provider uses them
Huh, interesting. Looks like it’s modeled after Archive.org, including the UI, but in a trimmed down form. Wonder why they don’t join forces?
The recent posts suggest it’s due to GUI changes?
Yuck. Only going to get worse, too, over time 🙁
Be careful with the latest Windows update. Apparently, it has issues with very large file operations: https://wccftech.com/windows-11-latest-update-is-reportedly-causing-widespread-ssd-failures/
Ignore the bits about the Phison controller, that turned out to be misinformation pushed out by another party. It happens with HDDs, too. Microsoft is currently working on the issue, though. Seems to be mostly relegated to Asia, however. I’m seeing very few reports coming out of other regions. The ones that are are due to poor quality drives.
In other news, I finally got around to shutting BOSS down. We held the funeral about a week or two ago. It was well past time.
Yep! A few weeks ago, I merged mhahn123’s final edits to the master list upstream that he never copied over into the main repository. The program will still work (and will remain available to download), it just isn’t receiving updates and the last edits to the master list are from 2021. I wasn’t able to get in contact with mhahn123 so I made the decision to go ahead and archive everything. At some point, I may take some of my long term plans and use them elsewhere. 🙂
Another factor in the decision was that folks weren’t submitting new entries and changes to the GitHub API broke the plugin submitter (we got a bunch of crickets when we tried to update it years ago). A bit hard to keep the list up to date.
Cool! Can’t tell you how many times I’ve tried to play an old game just to have it look like garbage on account of it wanting to run fullscreen. 😛
Honestly missed that event :/ Good to see them back 🙂
Still haven’t gotten the remaster but I probably will eventually. I’ve probably got X4 and CD Projeck Red games on the list first, though. Been wanting to play them for years!
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