Doodles, Comics and Angry Rants

So about a year ago now I was perusing some sites and found one on cygwin and rxvt. Phil Crosby at the time ran the site (eightpence.com) which is now defunct. I found it to be extremely useful and actually went to reference my comments today and couldn’t find it, because the site is now gone. However, thanks to the wayback machine and the fact that my comment wouldn’t post so I emailed him my comments I’m now going to put what was up there originally, but appended with my edits. So just as the disclaimer, the original article is by Phil Crosby and the new edits are done by me, but it’s all rolled into one.

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I HATE the windows shell environment. It’s terrible. Useless. Underachieving. Etc. Therefore I’ve resorted to installing cygwin onto windows that way I can get a true Linux shell. This is not a how-to install cygwin, but rather a how-to configure cygwin a bit better.

Cygwin is a drop in unix shell environment (it supports X libraries too) which allows you to run unix binaries built for Cygwin and use the wonderful command shells, like bash, in Windows. Cygwin is here and is fairly easy to get going, if you can wade through the blindingly frustrating usability nightmare that is their setup.exe

These are useful apps I always forget to select in setup.exe, as they’re not selected by default, so if you need them, check them off:
nano
openssh
subversion
cvs
rxvt
bind (only if you want to use host or dig)

The real challenge is getting a usable terminal emulator to run Cygwin programs in.

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Finishing up my 3d scene. Just relaid out my uv’s. Now to decide whether to brick or stone for my apartments. Suggestions?

Sorry I’ve been gone, ill be back real soon. The wife is pregnant and the VA’s got shit do. Animation. Rigging. Modeling and the such. Artwork up soon, less than a month.

Just a little poem so everyone knows I’m not dead. A lot of shit has happened lately so I’m trying to get everything going good. Some nice models and animation should be up soon so stay tuned for that. I’ve got a new character named “Cacti” that I’m really devloping so there’ll be a lot of that up soon. Probably within the next 3 weeks or so. So stay tuned and thanks for following me and checking out my artwork. Oh and I’ll be posting some new scripts I’ve worked on as well. First time publicly available! Alright. I’m out. :)

We’ve accepted evil as being commonplace and in turn begun to glorify it. Where evil once hid in the darkness it now rears its head in the light portraying itself as good. We’ve accepted things like abortion as commonplace and for the good of the individuals rather than looking at it as the gift of life from God.

That was the gist of the message.

Despite having hundreds, even thousands of tea party protests very few people in the MSM cared or even noticed. Even more-so was the fact that citizens didn’t care. Now a mere few weeks later protests over AIG and other bank executives have surfaced and guess what. They’re getting noticed. Now aren’t we protesting the same thing here? In essence yes, but these new protestors don’t realize it.

The biggest difference in the protests is who it targets. The Tea Party protests targeted the government and, in some cases, specifically Obama. These protests are against the “evil” corporations and banks. But here’s where I take issue with that. If the government had kept their hands out of the free market, there would have been no capital to provide those bonuses. They would have had to lay people off, cut costs and find a new way to fund the securities they had told consumers they had. In essence, people are protesting the governments interference. See, when a company has issues they have to find the best way to fix them. When the government has issues they make a new arm of government to find out why there are issues and then another branch to fix it. This all costs money, whereas the private sector seeks to consolidate money.

So if you voted for any of the folks that voted for ANY of the stimulus bills… Part of this mess is on you. So dont protest. Admit your fault and hide your head in shame.

1) My wife.
2) My dog.
3) Heaven

If I took my life I’d lose all 3 in one fell swoop. Not really why I wanted to put this out there. Just been running through my mind a lot lately.

Sad really. To have utterly given up hope so much so that you even consider the pro’s and con’s of a situation like that. Between the loss of my niece, my hospitalization for my back again, my wife miscarrying again, the 3 week hive breakout, dealing with the VA and now failing a class (of which I’ve NEVER done, which will take my 3.4 to a 3.3 this quarter) I guess it just culminates itself and eventually you feel as low as you can and so this happens.

Depressing. Well, here’s to hoping the year gets better from here!