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davefischer
davefischer @ davefischer @beehaw.org
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What are your favorite album details/back covers/liner notes, etc...?

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  • The liner notes for Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music (1975):

    • Linux Distribution Timeline

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  • Whoa, BSD predates V7? I had no idea.

    I've been meaning to set up an 11 running 2BSD...

    • Does anyone actually like 3d movies?

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  • I saw a couple of the classic 50s 3d flicks in the theatre when I was a teenager in the 80s.

    It was fun.

    Didn't make me want to see any more.

    • What is the worst film you have ever seen and why?

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  • Neah. Ed Wood's great. He's very sloppy with the things he doesn't care about, but the end result is entertaining.

    If you want to see WEIRD... there's a Mormon remake? tribute-to? idk? of Plan 9 called Plan 10 From Outer Space. VERY strange.

    • What is the worst film you have ever seen and why?

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  • The only remake of a foreign classic that I like is Sweet Charity. Bob Fosse took a serious drama by Fellini and turned it into an absurd musical comedy. WTF, but... it's GREAT!

    • Who cares about red flags in people. What are your green flags

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  • Has a favorite Bauhaus professor.

    • Whats the best budget friendly way to transfer vhs tapes

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  • Oddly enough, the laptop I'm sitting in front of has firewire. (And linux sees it! Might actually work...)

    • Connection to external drives sometimes breaks on reboot

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  • Are the usb disk device names changing?

    • Whats the best budget friendly way to transfer vhs tapes

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  • Are there any VHS decks that will allow digital transfer without writing a DVD?

    Edit: Found it! There are MiniDV / SVHS combo decks with digital out via firewire. Pricey though.

    • What are the funniest Halloween costumes you have personally seen?

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  • This was a long time ago, so I don't remember the exact details, but...

    A couple went as a pair of penguins. And they had a half-dozen friends dress up as National Geographic photographers, following them around.

    (Oh, this was probably when March of the Penguins had just been released.)

    • What are you most looking forward to?

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  • I've got about 50 books "saved for later" on amazon. I expect to have the spare cash to buy them all sometime soon.

    • What would a world where gravity is a weather condition look like?

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  • Roadside Picnic has gravitational anomalies, but they're very small, don't move, and are caused by abandoned alien artifacts.

    • What is the device you want, but that does not exist?

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  • Raspberry pi in a Cisco WIC card form factor.

    • What decorations are on your walls?

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  • I collect old computers (mostly high-end 90s servers: Sun & SGI, but also some older things like that decwriter & tektronics graphics terminal) and I help run a computer museum, so I frequently have things on loan from the museum - either stuff I'm working on, or photographing.

    I had this on loan from the museum a few years ago to get V7 Unix (circa 1979) running on it:

    • What decorations are on your walls?

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  • Flyers & silkscreened posters by friends.

    • Who here uses a less popular Linux distribution? What made you choose it?

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  • Yes, although the thing on my desk is just an x-term & media player, so "desktop system" doesn't mean that much...

    Mostly video performance (1080 vid stuttered badly, while it plays fine on the same machine under linux.) & compatability. (Not that I want to run a browser on my x-term, but it would be nice to have as a fallback option. Can't install anything recent.) Oh, and extended attributes in the filesystem. I REALLY like being able to add name=val tags to a file. It's immensely useful. That might be my favorite feature of linux? Funny.

    Also, I was in the midst of switching from Solaris to Linux on my server, so it just seemed like a good idea to run the same OS on the desktop.

    • If you could bring back a dead band/musician which one/who would it be?

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    • Are there any good foss Linux handhelds?

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  • Old droid & Maemo Leste?

    (That's what I use.)

    • [Question] Which shell prompt do you use and why?

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  • VERY simple. Time & node:

    HH:MM node%

    Except in the xterm I keep open for dealing with my camera. That's time & last-word-in-cwd:

    HH:MM dir%

    Sometimes on a cellphone I will use battery charge percent:

    BB%

    And when I'm su'ed it's just:

    root%

    • Linux DNS settings is a total mess

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  • Yup. Tried that, doesn't work.