I might be on a shoestring

Budget wise, but I’m guessing (with the education that 40 years brings you) that my power supply popped a cap. I can get a 600w psu replacement for ~$45 for a white label thermaltake PSU.

The only problem is I have to hope the PSU didn’t take any components out.

Of all

the things I didn’t need right now, it was my main workhorse up an dying tonight. 8 cores of intel goodness are now gone. 🙁

A long time issue solved

Since pretty much the beginning (still post millenia) I’ve been trying to get somafm to rip via the terminal in Debian.

turns out, it was the user agent string, which you can append with the -u flag:

e.g. streamripper https://somafm.com/gsclassic.pls -u mozilla

and it got it, finally I can check that one off the bucket list. Like I said, pretty much sine the turn of the century.

NOTE: streamripping may be illegal where you are, and since IANAL: use at your own risk.

So proud

I don’t know why, I’ve had debian installed previously, Even Gentoo. But debian is much more stable and supported by the community, so until I rename it:

This will be my workhorse until I can replace it. Not a web server though. That remains the relm of my i5!

Out With

the new stuff (AKA ubuntu). I’m sticking with the OG distro, debian, as ubuntu has failed me again.

or is it the second distro? as I believe slackware is older?

Yeah, google solved that Q: “Yes, Slackware is considered older than Debian, being widely recognized as the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with its development starting earlier than Debian’s; both were initiated around 1993, but Slackware is generally considered slightly older. “

And I adopted linux around the millenia. So it only took me about 7 years to adopt linux.