November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
November 10, 2012
So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the videos into different categories (which I might not do). I also found some catchy background music, which is always nice.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
November 10, 2012
So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the videos into different categories (which I might not do). I also found some catchy background music, which is always nice.
April 14, 2015
So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
July 11, 2014
I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update the install. With that said, the rest of this post is under the assumption that you have just installed Arch on your raspberry pi and are on the very first boot of your new installation.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
October 29, 2012
So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
April 14, 2015
So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.
April 7, 2015
So, it has been a rather long while since I made a blog post. Partially because I wanted to swap my blog over to jurassicplayer.github.io, and partially because I’ve just dumped a ton of my time into a sink grabbing some quality of life stuff. Recently, that also entailed getting a rather old and somewhat busted PSP1000. A couple housing cracks here and there, no joystick, button issues, and overall just grime that had caked up inside the console.
February 2, 2015
It’s a brand new blog to spread the vast amounts of no knowledge that I possess in a single website that includes even the nifty stuff that I do on github every once in a blue moon.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
September 24, 2014
Around the beginning of the month, I decided I would take a jump and try to gentoo it up. After a day of derping around, I gave up on it for the time being, so don’t expect some amazing success story where my laptop became razor fast.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
December 3, 2012
So it’s once again been around two weeks thanks to the wonderful vacation that is Thanksgiving. With the fixing of my computer, everything is now working well and no overheating. Not only that, my brother has offered to let me use his USB microphone, though “offer” is not really the true situation.
October 26, 2012
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 10, 2012
So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the videos into different categories (which I might not do). I also found some catchy background music, which is always nice.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
October 29, 2012
So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
April 14, 2015
So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.
April 7, 2015
So, it has been a rather long while since I made a blog post. Partially because I wanted to swap my blog over to jurassicplayer.github.io, and partially because I’ve just dumped a ton of my time into a sink grabbing some quality of life stuff. Recently, that also entailed getting a rather old and somewhat busted PSP1000. A couple housing cracks here and there, no joystick, button issues, and overall just grime that had caked up inside the console.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
September 24, 2014
Around the beginning of the month, I decided I would take a jump and try to gentoo it up. After a day of derping around, I gave up on it for the time being, so don’t expect some amazing success story where my laptop became razor fast.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
September 24, 2014
Around the beginning of the month, I decided I would take a jump and try to gentoo it up. After a day of derping around, I gave up on it for the time being, so don’t expect some amazing success story where my laptop became razor fast.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
September 24, 2014
Around the beginning of the month, I decided I would take a jump and try to gentoo it up. After a day of derping around, I gave up on it for the time being, so don’t expect some amazing success story where my laptop became razor fast.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
July 11, 2014
I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update the install. With that said, the rest of this post is under the assumption that you have just installed Arch on your raspberry pi and are on the very first boot of your new installation.
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
November 10, 2012
So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the videos into different categories (which I might not do). I also found some catchy background music, which is always nice.
October 29, 2012
So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
July 11, 2014
I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update the install. With that said, the rest of this post is under the assumption that you have just installed Arch on your raspberry pi and are on the very first boot of your new installation.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
July 3, 2014
So it has been quite a few months since I made my last post, mostly because every time I thought about it, I couldn’t think of what to write. Rather than talk about a specific topic, this post will just kind of be an accumulation of stuffs that happened.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
April 14, 2015
So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.
April 7, 2015
So, it has been a rather long while since I made a blog post. Partially because I wanted to swap my blog over to jurassicplayer.github.io, and partially because I’ve just dumped a ton of my time into a sink grabbing some quality of life stuff. Recently, that also entailed getting a rather old and somewhat busted PSP1000. A couple housing cracks here and there, no joystick, button issues, and overall just grime that had caked up inside the console.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
April 22, 2015
So the topic of the day is PSP custom firmware, specifically for firmware version 6.60 since most official updates are kind of just for online stuff and some of the newer games. Over the years, there has been a fair number of custom firmware like M33, HEN, PRO, ME/LME, etc. that seem to come around every major firmware release. The two main custom firmware as of now are PROcfw and ME/LME, both of which saw releases around the end of 2014 to early 2015.
April 14, 2015
So when talking about archiving things for the PSP, the main problem lies in how large PSP games are (they range from ~40MiB to ~2.5GiB). There are a couple archive formats that PSP custom firmware can use without any major issues most of the time, but at the moment the best standard is up in the air.
April 7, 2015
So, it has been a rather long while since I made a blog post. Partially because I wanted to swap my blog over to jurassicplayer.github.io, and partially because I’ve just dumped a ton of my time into a sink grabbing some quality of life stuff. Recently, that also entailed getting a rather old and somewhat busted PSP1000. A couple housing cracks here and there, no joystick, button issues, and overall just grime that had caked up inside the console.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
April 4, 2014
For the past couple of days, I’ve been living in a KDE desktop. Some would say this is insane, others would say that I made the right choice and to be honest, I haven’t checked out much of the actual environment to make a judgement call. In terms of what I installed, I went for a minimal kde setup to give me the settings and desktop to play around with.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
July 11, 2014
I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update the install. With that said, the rest of this post is under the assumption that you have just installed Arch on your raspberry pi and are on the very first boot of your new installation.
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
November 10, 2012
So it’s been about two weeks (the last post should have been later in the week…then it would be a bit more even, but meh it’s still an average of one post per week) and it’s time for another post. Eventually I’ll be posting videos, though that may or may not happen before I replace my laptop’s fan hopefully during the Thanksgiving break. In the meantime, I made a very simple opening sequence (terribly simple) that I am planning on adding to all of my videos and I might add thumbnails to the youtube previews if I split up the videos into different categories (which I might not do). I also found some catchy background music, which is always nice.
October 29, 2012
So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.
May 15, 2015
PSP plugins are wonderfully hard to come by now that the golden age of the PSP scene has passed and so finding the latest versions of things require a bit of hunting. This list will just be the plugins I happen to think are rather convenient and for the most part, play nicely with each other.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
July 13, 2014
So continuing the thread of the raspberry pi, we currently have some magically way of managing our raspberry pi via ssh.
July 12, 2014
So we finally have a wonderfully set up raspberry pi that is ready to have a bazillion packages installed to bloat it. First, we need a list of the things we’ll need in order to turn this pi into a media server that better be hauling weights for us.
From start to finish:
July 11, 2014
I thought I would make a post, or rather a log of setting up my raspberry pi in the event that I have to start over from scratch. Of course, this will mainly be covering the finer details of setting up the raspberry pi, since it’s pretty easy to install via NOOBS. While NOOBS is probably easiest, the option is available to install just a certain distribution such as Pidora, Raspbian, etc. if you really aren’t planning on using anything extra. In any case, I’m using the NOOBS lite version since I’m planning on having a cable anyways to update the install. With that said, the rest of this post is under the assumption that you have just installed Arch on your raspberry pi and are on the very first boot of your new installation.
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
July 20, 2014
Finally we are at the end of setting up our magical torrenting client and all we need to do is have a way to add our anime to an rss watch list. Luckily enough, we have just the plugin that can deal with RSS feeds, but to keep things in order, first we need to decide on a feed to follow.
July 18, 2014
So with our rutorrent and rtorrent set up, we can now move on to tackle more first world problems and start this stuff on boot. The main goal is to get lighttpd and rtorrent up and running when the pi starts up, so that we can instantly go to rutorrent after it finishes booting, and then do a little bit of configuration to rtorrent and rutorrent to smooth out some of the edges.
July 17, 2014
So getting rutorrent onto a raspberry pi is not nearly as amazingly easy as deluge, but hopefully it will be better in the end. Since a lot of the typing work has already been done, I’ll just link to the arch wiki which should get you most of the way there. Just make sure to copy the template .rtorrent.rc to your home directory with “cp /usr/share/doc/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc”.
July 16, 2014
So with a great file system on your hard drive, we need to do a quick addition to our /etc/fstab to mount it at boot, but first is a recap of the other stuff we still need to do.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
February 2, 2015
It’s a brand new blog to spread the vast amounts of no knowledge that I possess in a single website that includes even the nifty stuff that I do on github every once in a blue moon.
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
November 14, 2013
After leaving everything for around a month to do absolutely nothing, I magically ended up with a raspberry pi that I actually didn’t magically end up with. In other words, I bought a raspberry pi for myself and turned it into my very own server. Dubbing it RoriCandy, I made a nice little cardboard box case for it based off of a tutorial on the interwebs somewhere…mostly because I was too cheap to buy some nicer looking supplies.
February 4, 2013
Between these dates were originally 4 blog posts that I decided weren’t useful enough to manually bring to this new blog. Thus instead, I’m just going to put a link to all four blog posts.
December 3, 2012
So it’s once again been around two weeks thanks to the wonderful vacation that is Thanksgiving. With the fixing of my computer, everything is now working well and no overheating. Not only that, my brother has offered to let me use his USB microphone, though “offer” is not really the true situation.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
August 16, 2014
So we are finally complete with all of our wondrous automation on our raspberry pi and thus, now is the time for a recap of what remaining stuff we need to deal with.
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
April 7, 2014
It’s a new week, and after an entire weekend of just not doing much at all. With the amount of random testing of the KSplashX engine last week, I found some small tidbits here and there without much to offer in terms of making some really fancy looking splash screens. Sure you could add animations here and there using animated images which in and of itself is a LOT of work simply because each frame has to be made and then organized into a single image. I also found out that trying to put a fullscreen animated image isn’t something that works, and so I gave up on that front :D.
October 29, 2012
So it has been much less than an actual week, but accomplishment deserves some sort of timely banter.
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
September 3, 2014
During the many hard times that may occur over the span of your anime otaku life, sometimes internet fails and leaves your tracking a terrible mess. Of course, this is under the expectation that even without internet, you are still watching anime because something so insignificant as internet obviously can’t inhibit anime consumption. So, for the most part, this is under the assumption that for whatever reason, your computer can’t be used to keep a history of your escapades or you just really want to keep your list bleeding edge despite nobody caring. With this assumption in mind, the goal is the most convenient and painless way to keep your list updated on minimal internets, aka around 50 kbps aka 6.25 kB/s or slightly less. This speed was picked because t-mobile has a bunch of asshats who believe in throttling unlimited data after reaching some bullshit arbitrary limit. It’s not fucking unlimited if you are going to put a limit on it.
September 2, 2014
The number of anime series to date is a vast and constantly expanding endpoint, thanks to there being a fairly large list of new series added each season. Sometimes it’s not always easy to remember that horribly obscure anime that had such a generic plot that it was completely unmemorable from any of the other similarly dull anime. Sure there are people that may find said series to be the grand tier of all anime and you are insane for not remembering any of it, but w/e I don’t remember anything important from KoiChoco or Fortune Arterial besides one having an election at the end and the other having a vampire. Unless your memory is outstanding, remembering specific anime and even what episodes you are currently on for the duller anime might not be the easiest thing to do. Thus the internet has come up with some rather shitty sites that almost cover your needs of tracking what episodes you are on, what stuff you have already watched, and other useless stats that can be used to formulate just how shut-in you are. For anyone already into anime, this stuff is pretty much old hat and you probably already have an account in one or all of the websites that I’m going to list.
August 30, 2014
So with the wonders of having tons of android applications in the palm of my hand, it’s a good time to search for more anime/manga related things that can enhance our overall nonproductive past-time. This spans more than just simple things like wallpapers or ringtones, but actual apps that might count as objectively useful. First on the mental list is one that I have been searching for for a very long time is a manga reader. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be one hell of a fucking long post with multiple walls of text. Be prepared. Hug your dakimakura if you have to.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
December 30, 2014
So it has been a rather long year and sometimes stuff gets updated. To keep with that trend, I’m going to update my original opinions on the art programs that I tried out over a year ago. This time, hopefully with some place markers to see how much will get updated next year (because I can’t tell how far FireAlpaca has gotten since I last tried it…just a version number without a date). The list this time will also have a couple of extra programs dumped in because why not.
December 17, 2013
So the PSX was a cool console system from ages ago with actually decent games. While thinking to myself “dam, I would like to play some of those old games”, I thought I would check up on the emulator sort of things that I almost never pay attention to.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
October 22, 2013
I have a tablet and it’s amazing even if it isn’t…but what can you do with a tablet?
Obviously you can draw with it and thus we get to look at applications that our tablet can utilize.
September 18, 2013
There are a ton of torrent clients, but we are going to simplify that list here. They may agree with your tastes, or there may be a torrent client that I didn’t talk about. This is because I’m not going to go around testing all the torrent clients just to tell you that I like how a certain one looks because that is a waste of time.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
July 11, 2014
On the great quest for watching anime nicely, the raspberry pi could be a major part, but just don’t watch anime on it. It’s actually quite the simple story as to how this opinion came about. At the very beginning, omxplayer couldn’t handle internal subs, otherwise known and pretty much universally used in the anime community as softsubs inside of the mkv container format. Much time has passed since then, and for the most part, softsubs now work with omxplayer as well as custom fonts that might be included. Thus currently, you could watch anime with some semblance of decency on the raspberry pi and if you normally stream and decided to swap to viewing anime locally, then there is probably even going to be an improvement in the quality.
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 17, 2013
There are pretty much three ways to get XBMC and anime to work together in a way that actually uses XBMC’s ability to scrape websites like TVDB or IMDb to present your anime with beautiful eye candy.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
November 16, 2012
So relatively little to do with anime today, but recently I went looking at a new (well, new to me at least) web browser called dwb. It’s a browser reminiscent of luakit, uzbl, etc. and so there is fairly little to be seen when actually using the browser. It has support for tabs, has a status bar, and aside from that, has the web page. There are of course the other general sort of features that any normal browser has (history, bookmarks, etc), but there are a number of minor differences in comparison to my preferred browser of choice (which is luakit).
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
September 18, 2013
So music players are kind of a thing, unless you use your media player as your music player, which works as well, but doesn’t provide the nicer functions of a music player. Of course, we are going to have a separate music player, and it is going to need to have iPod support. This pretty much equates to an iTunes replacement.
September 16, 2013
As of today, this blog is now completely about absolutely nothing amazing except stuff I want to remember pertaining to whatever I want. You can make use of the information however you please.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
October 23, 2013
So a little over a month ago, I made a wonderful post about video players and the like. Funnily enough, after shuffling around the internet I happened to end up finding a video player that is perfect for windows. By perfect, I mean it’s just a build of mpv for windows. From what I can tell, the build works about the same as it does on linux, but of course instead of just direct build of mpv, there is a front-end that you could use instead…
September 17, 2013
With the second half of XBMC short how-to, we get to look at actually scraping websites among other things that are also of some importance. Even though XBMC management is split into these two posts, this post probably isn’t going to be quite as large due to XBMC supposedly handling the bulk of the work.
September 16, 2013
So video players are kind of just a trending thing maybe…at least until the next amazing video player gets released into the world. Currently there are an enormous number of video players available for both windows and linux (and I don’t care about Mac so w/e), but for the anime lover that we all are, there are a couple requirements that must be satisfied in order to be a decent video player.
August 18, 2014
So obviously being a cool guy, you have an android device or two that you may or may not want to connect via usb to your computer. While in windows, mtp is either barely passable or you just can’t get the shit to work at all. In both cases, mtp is annoying to use and all around terrible in comparison to the old way of just mounting directly in my opinion. Fortunately, the Archlinux wiki has an article on that (as with almost everything else ._.) and all that really needs to be installed are gvfs and libmtp, though apparently gvfs-mtp is still available as a separate package. It has already been merged upstream and released with gvfs 1.15.2, so any version after, you probably don’t need gvfs-mtp.
August 17, 2014
So we are finally at the end of the great raspberry pi journey for media serving and the last thing we really need is a way to protect our precious collection. This can be encompassed into two main ideas: protecting what goes in and out of your computer via the network, and protecting the stuff on your filesystem. Most of this I can’t go in-depth about, but the general idea is to have a firewall for filtering what stuff comes in, encrypt and proxy around stuff that goes out, and encrypt the files in your filesystem. I have next to no opinions for any of these since I do none of them :D. But I’ll still list stuff off the top of my head that pertain to it.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
April 11, 2014
So the tmux + ranger duo. It’s something I have coveted for quite some time, though to be honest I almost never use it anyways (but it’s just that awesome). Tmux is a terminal multiplexer and that means that it can split up your terminal into multiple terminals in a single window. Ranger on the other hand is a badass cli file manager that you can add pretty much any shortcut in and do tons of other nifty things with. The problem that was present before was that combining the two generally resulted in the w3m image displaying capabilities to die, meaning those wonderful true color images couldn’t be seen in ranger while using tmux. To someone like myself, that SUCKS…ASCII is great and all, but I WANT my true color images. Apparently the issue was that the standard way of getting the terminal size normally wasn’t possible in tmux due to how it can be resized and stuff (and thus instead of reporting decent information, it reported pretty much zero).
November 10, 2014
So I somewhat follow the Linux Action Show because at some point I started following it as a convenient source for possibly important linux news, but that is completely besides the point. I’m only bringing that up because they are having a firefox challenge sort of thing where they try to live in Firefox for a week. Today’s post is just a what-if situation where I would have to use firefox. Granted, there are probably tons of people who use firefox without a problem…so I’m ignoring those people.
April 10, 2014
So after around two weeks of KDE, a sizable amount of customizing and other randomness, I decided to toss all of it out the window and go back to my usual openbox+tint2 setup. Some install somewhere borked the Kwin compositing and I decided that there would be too much effort in trying to solve everything I wanted out of the environment.