J. Palmer

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## Mon 13 Feb 2023 09:19:10 AM EST

Had kind of a late start to this morning, unfortunately. I did get up at 5am when the alarms went off, then I proceeded to the kitchen to make the Mrs. some coffee and her lunch for work, then I laid back down in bed beside her and gave her a nudge at each following quarter hour alarm until she rose at 5:45; then, I apparently fell back asleep. So much for that idea of thinking about the dog in the morning to keep me up and moving. Maybe I’ll have better luck tomorrow morning.

Speaking of the dog, she’s still giving troubles when it comes to the ideas of being housebroken. After I finally woke–for real, this time–and had breakfast with the kids, I went to get the dog from her crate to take her outside. After letting the dog loose and putting her harness on I went to grab my jacket–and, of course, the dog urinated in the family room. So, first mopping of the family room is now out of the way. I only had to mop it four times yesterday.

In other news, I fired up weechat for the first in–I dunno, a week?–and it appears that things are working just as I’d hoped. I got dinged with a ton of bell notifications thanks to the buffer playback. I lightly scrolled through to see how it looked; I approve, though I wonder how much larger I can raise the buffer limit. Not that I’d want it to playback a week’s worth of messages should I be away that long–referring mainly to my twitter feed–but that would be kind of cool.

The dog is nibbling on my shoes.

I fired Rivendell back up yesterday evening after having my music machine sit dormant for a few days. Unfortunetely, I discovered that while the machine had been running my Riv daemons had not (I’d thought I’d left the backend stuff running and just not started up rdairplay, etc.). So, after restarting the chain of services I took the time to create a log for yesterday and today; I’m generating logs for tomorrow through Thursday as we speak–the cron job I’ve set for generating day 4 fired without a hitch and has Friday already waiting.

Well, there you have it–one of my random tinkering things that I want to talk about eventually–Rivendell. There’s just so much that can be said about the collection of software that is Rivendell–and so much that I honestly do not know or truly understand. I would love to write something about it from a layman’s sort of perspective, I guess, and introduce it to other people that would be interested. Rivendell is a radio automation system just like the big boys use–actually, the big boys do use it–it is professional software; but it is FOSS! The company that provides it does charge for professional support and installation–and offers (or at least had–I’m not sure of now, as I’ve not looked at that stuff in years) fully installed machines for installtion in broadcast environments. As for me, I just tinker with it, and run my own little personal “streaming radio station” at home. Presently, I’m running one of the 4.x betas on kubuntu 22.04. I think I saw that Fred–chief developer of Rivendell–said that they’re going to stop with further development of ‘buntu friendly versions, so I might have to change distros in the future–we’ll see.

Riv had been running with primary development for CentOS up until it became too dificult to rely upon it after it’s death. I think Riv is now primarily coded for Suse–but they explored Ubuntu due to the high install base. I think Fred said they’re going to explore Mint now (Mint is a ‘buntu variant, right?), which would figure, as I had been running a painful 3.x build on Mint prior to my realization that there was a 4.x beta centered on Kubuntu. I say a painful 3.x build in reference to my experience in getting whichever 3.x version it was to compile on Mint, thanks to having to track down dependencies that were compatible, as the code was centered around a different distro. I did eventually get it to compile, and I did get it to work after a ton of fuss–mainly with JACK, as I recall.

I dunno. Anyway, I’m halfway keeping an eye on what’s coming up down the road for Rivendell and will likely change my setup when they begin playing with pipewire, unless some other new killer feature or change comes along first.

Well, now that I’ve gotten completely sidetracked and attempted to geek out on something that I like playing with, yet know nothing about, I think I’ll abruptly end this post here.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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## Sun 12 Feb 2023 01:26:56 PM EST

A drawback to when I had placed my computer in a very accessible location was that I was constantly able to go back and write anything at any time, which would lead to multiple short posts about nothing, such as this one.

Meanwhile, the kids are playing Ms Pac-Man on the 7800 and I’m about to go sort and fold laundry. It’s a beautiful day outside, and I’ve got blinds, drapes and shutters opened to allow as much sun in as possible. It’s kind of looking like for a few days next week I might be able to open a few windows and let some fresh air into the house. I can hardly wait.

Oh well, back to work, I guess.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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