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## Tue 31 Jan 2023 09:24:06 AM EST

I’m just sitting here with a little bit of extra time to write, since I’m waiting on this poor little computer to do some stuff, so I figured I’d try to write a little. What I’ve got the thing doing is generating my personal site files and trying to compile ZNC.

Generating site files:

…so, I think somewhere in this jumbled mess of a journal I’d mentioned that I discovered a little program/set-o-scripts dubbed “gemtexter”; I like it. I mean, it suits it’s purpose quite nicely; the issue is me and what I want–or think I want. Anyway, what gemtexter does is takes your latest gemlog post, adds it to an index in the reverse chron order we’ve gotten accustomed to for blogs, then goes through and creates html files for each existing gmi file. The problem–it goes through each file and processes it anew. If I were a smarter man I’d tinker with it and figure out how to tell it to only look at modified files, so that it doesn’t rewrite every file. But I ain’t got those smarts–at least not yet.

…and, well, since my hard-headed dumbass wants to have everything I’ve ever written included here… yeah; takes a little bit do do all that.

Compiling ZNC:

I dunno why I think I need it, but I want to be able to keep an active connection to IRCs and chat services and be able to log in at any time from anywhere without missing a thing. Honestly, it doesn’t really matter, as I’m not active anywhere, nor do I have anyone out there that I keep in touch with. Still, I like the idea.

So, the plan is, I can have ZNC running and connected to a couple of IRC channels to monitor (weather and news, exciting stuff, eh?) and connect it up to the bitlbee server I’ve got running (for all the instant messages I might miss from an empty friends list) and boom! I can login and switch computers and clients at any time and never miss a thing.

Poor little computer:

Yeah… I’ve got all this running on an old netbook that has seen better days. A million years ago I’d gotten an Acer Aspire zg5; nice little computer–I like it a lot, honestly. Or, I did, anyway. Now?

*sigh*

At some point during it’s life, I’d handed it down to the kids, along with another matching zg5, and… I’m not entirely sure if the HDD is the factory one, anymore–though it may be; regardless, it isn’t running XP these days. The keyboard is out of another model of the Aspire line–fully compatible, though the ribbon was routed differently. And–the painful part–the screen is busted. I could easily replace it, I know, but it’s once of those things where I can think of a million and a half other things that I should waste money on first. It just hurts to see it sitting there, broken and unloved. So, I put it into service a little bit ago to act as a simple little webserver. It works, I guess; definetely for my needs–I mean, I don’t need much of anything for those tasks since it’s just me tinkering and serving up pages and files for myself to view. I dunno.

Oh, hey, it looks like noth those jobs have finally finished, so I guess I’ll move on to trying to figure out how to get ZNC running.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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