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# Untitled
## Tue 31 Jan 2023 12:16:22 PM EST

So, I got ZNC up and running, and have it connected to bitlbee. For funsies I loaded Weechat on one computer, Hexchat and Pidgin on another, and then found an IRC client for my phone, and connected them all to the ZNC server. It was kinda cool watching them all scroll the same thing at (nearly) the same time. I guess my next adventure in this particular project will be reconfiguring my Weechat settings on the one computer I was regularly using so that it pulls from ZNC.

Other silly projects I wanna tackle will be trying to get a more consistant look across all of my gemini capsule, and figuring out a way of easily getting my gem posts into wordpress. I may just see about killing off WordPress altogether, honestly, if I can find an easy way of hooking Instagram into gemini, though. lol. Who knows, maybe it’s possible. I just want a way of somehow grabbing my Instagram posts, saving a copy of the pic locally, and then serving it back up. I dunno. We’ll see.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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# Untitled
## 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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X Forwarding

# X Forwarding
## Tue 31 Jan 2023 08:31:02 AM EST

…a note for myself, mainly, as I keep having to look this up and haven’t seemed to commit it to memory…

For X forwarding, assuming X and SSH have already been installed, of course;

Edit sshd_config
“`
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config
“`
Uncomment / set the following;
“`
X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost no
“`
Restart SSH daemon
“`
sudo systemctl restart sshd
“`
…make necessary changes to commands if using different distros with different daemon/init handlers, of course.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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# Untitled
## Fri 20 Jan 2023 05:46:10 PM EST

Just a quick note for the heck of it. I can’t think of anything terribly important to write about at this time, other than I’ve been continuin to tinker with the computers at home.

In family news, not much to report, either. The little ones have been slowly getting weened off of video games; they’d unfortunately discovered the fun of being competitive which was creating numerous fights. I’m hoping that I can bring the gaming back into their lives sometime soon, as it was fun watching them play–especially the littlest one and his enjoyment of the 8-bit world of gaming from mine and his mother’s childhood.

Speaking of gaming, the Mrs. has introduced me to the Age of Empires franchise, and we’ve been playing LAN games frequently. The latest version she’s had us fixed on is AoE-III War Chiefs.

I dunno. Not much else I can think of.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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# Untitled
## Wed 18 Jan 2023 03:52:25 PM EST

I had a quick little epiphany a few moments ago; part of my problem is that I have too many computers.

Thing is, that’s exactly how I want it. I wants all teh pee-cees.

…but, yeah, no, I relized that part of my problems are that I have so many things available to me at the moment–and yet, not a lot, really–and I have no real idea of what I want to do with all of them, and in what order I should attack things.

Years ago, when I was more limited, it was easier to sort out what I wanted to accomplish, and what my boundaries were. Now, I’m working with more resources, and have fewer boundaries–especially considering a lot of the little things I want to play with and explore aren’t that resource heavy.

…guess I really need to stop and organize my thoughts.

blah.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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# Untitled
## Sun 15 Jan 2023 06:48:35 PM EST

Just thought I’d pop in for a quick little post, since I’m wanting to try and take this seriously. I’ve got several ideas of things that I could try to write about, but I’m honestly not feeling the writing vibe at this moment–I’d rather toy around with a few more of my little pet projects instead. (The pet projects, oddly enough, are a few of the things I would like to write about when I’m actually feeling it)

I dunno. Until the writing bug bites me, I’ll think I’ll leave it at that for now.

Thanks for reading;

–J

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I just realized that its Friday the 13th

# I just realized that it’s Friday the 13th

…yep. Just came to that realization when I set to write this little post. Normally, I wouldn’t care about the date, but when trying to follow a dating scheme for writing a silly journal entry filename… blah. Anyway, lookout, Jason’s coming!

So, I’m back to tinkering around with gemini stuffs; not only that, but I think I figured out that my focus on it should just be my focus. No games, schemes, whatever B.S. I was tring to think of doing. I mean, sure, documenting a bunch of crap about things I’m playing around with is a good idea, but trying to figure out how to possibly make a buck with it or create a following instead of just letting it come naturally? That’s my problem. I try to overthink things and try to find a way to make things becaome greater than what they actually are or should be. This should just be about me having fun and tring to find ways of expressing myself to myself and for myself without a whole lot of outer influence–or outer influence that I’m trying to machine.

Any of that make sense? No?

Okay, so here’s the deal. I’d thought once upon a time that maybe I could get on the youtuber bandwagon or maybe even create some sort of blog where I could earn a little extra income. I mean, there’s all these other people out there doing it, and presenting me with hours of informational entertainment doing what they love–doing things I love!–and GETTING PAID for it! Hell, why can’t I do that sort of thing?

…well. I can’t. Or at least I shouldn’t. Not yet, anyway. I need to be me first. So, no trying to figure out how to brand and market myself. Let’s just go back to figuring out how to be myself.

So, as part of this journey, I’ve decided to bring a bit of my older (younger?) self with me for the ride, and have imported some old WordPress and LiveJournal entries (the old LJ stuff is buried within the WP stuff, as I imported those entries there.) Hell, there’s even some MySpace stuff tucked away in there somewhere. Point being, I’ve grabbed up about as much junk that I’ve written as I can and plan on diving into some of it, and welcome you to do the same–assuming that there is a “you” reading this somewhere. I also plan on actually making it a point to write more often. As you’ll notice in going through my archives of posts, I used to write quite a bit; sure most of it was nonsense, but it was something that I felt I needed to share with someone, if not just with myself.

I dunno, I feel as if I’m beginning to ramble as I really had no real thoughts as to what to write when I began to write any of this. <-- See, rambling. So, anyway, I think I'll leave it here for now. Thanks for stopping by; -J