Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

And that tripped me up in some subtle ways. I actually needed `ENV=/home/arielmt/.shrc` instead, and to source it on cronjob lines. Now all my jobs are working properly & my crontab looks nice and neat. I updated the page I posted earlier because it was wrong. Double oops.

It turns out I needed `SHELL=/bin/sh` and `ENV=$HOME/.shrc` in my crontab and `PATH=` statements in my .shrc file. Oops.

I just had to figure out why a shellscript working perfectly was refusing to do anything, even quit, as a cronjob. I knew the cron environment was a bit different, but I didn't realize how much, or how to troubleshoot it effectively. Fixed: https://thornton2.com/unix/freebsd/simulate-cron-env.html

It's not exactly what's expected of a ✨ sparkly shellscript princess ✨ , but last night I wrote about patching my window manager, wmx, within the FreeBSD ports tree: https://thornton2.com/unix/freebsd/patch-wmx.html

I hadn't found any decent port patching instructions for non-porter sysadmins, so I wrote my own. The wmx author uses an "edit source & recompile" paradigm for configuration, & I only want to edit once, so off to Port Patchville I go! (This also lets me take the patch to another PC without new editing.)

It's not exactly what's expected of a ✨ sparkly shellscript princess ✨ , but today I wrote about patching my window manager, wmx, within the FreeBSD ports tree: https://thornton2.com/unix/freebsd/patch-wmx.html

Basically, two of the default mouse button assignments are painful to me, & the author uses an "edit source & recompile" paradigm for customization. I only want to edit once, so off to Port Patchville I go!

Free PC tip I just had to give a customer: If the text in your browser window is too big or too small, hold down the <Ctrl> key and roll the mouse wheel to change the zoom. <Ctrl>+<+> & <Ctrl>+<-> do the same, & <Ctrl>+<0> resets the zoom to 100%.

Is the deep bass rhythmic throbbing I'm hearing in this restaurant a new ambient music station or just a loud roof AC?

(video) Pinball Wizard, Folsom Prison Version:
https://youtu.be/6bfPwtUTP4k

I ran FreeBSD's `pkg autoremove` command yesterday, & it removed a bunch of stuff I didn't notice, including hal. Also, something must've changed in a recent kernel because I had to install a new package, xf86-video-intel (on an ancient Dell Inspiron 518 w/on-board graphics), before X11 found a screen again. #DayWithoutX

Welp. Today is the #DayWithoutX. My workstation broke somehow and won't start X11, which means no GUI. Since the fallback in Unix is the CLI, & I grew up on the CLI, I'm not completely lost or unable to work. It's still a surprising nuisance, though.

Wait. Did he clean the motherboard by spraying it with brake parts cleaner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx63Fv4l_5c

I am watching someone restore a Commodore 64C that was painted banana yellow, on only the top half of the case, with layers of red, green, and black paint underneath. Not even the black would look good because of the beige keyboard.

(I mean actually showing you what the password was, not a generic villainous "I have your password, nyahahahaaaa!" claim.)
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