Podcasts about Solarized

Slather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" to the Israelis confiscating a lot of nice shotguns, from crashing into smaller things than you to Honda buying Nissan (why?), it's classic Garage Hour supersauce - spread it on. ...With Orange Goblin, Dire Straits, Masters of Reality, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Solarized, The Sword, Mastodon, Man or Astro Man and High on Fire.  There's also bears, crocodiles, birds and Dad's poor Buick Century.

Slather on the Justin powa - from Canadian marionettes to catching up on your Orange Goblins, from dickheads with their high beams (and why is it always a Jeep or a Tesla?) to the rules about passing a snowplow, from Ford's exploding batteries to its self-disassembling front suspension (a case of the Teslas?), from Charles Bronson "fixing Emmitt" to the Israelis confiscating a lot of nice shotguns, from crashing into smaller things than you to Honda buying Nissan (why?), it's classic Garage Hour supersauce - spread it on. ...With Orange Goblin, Dire Straits, Masters of Reality, Soundgarden, Kyuss, Solarized, The Sword, Mastodon, Man or Astro Man and High on Fire.  There's also bears, crocodiles, birds and Dad's poor Buick Century.

Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning's commute?  The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventures in exploiting the retention-disabled.  ...Because Found On Road Awesome!   We catalog one month's grabs: a D-ring and hitch-block, channel-locks and flush-cuts, an air chuck and some serious scissors (all tools we can use), plus some sweet signage. You can do it too (...because geek). It's there for you: Sackpack's pricey flashlight, Walkin' Dude's yuge Ft. Carson & orange Yellow Freight signs, plus Justinius Rex's dozens of Snap-On tools and jar O' sockets.  Also, Earthlings?, Megadeth, Kyuss, Dog Fashion Disco, Filter, Solarized and Die Krupps.

Do you have the walnuts to stop and grab that sweet thing you saw on this morning's commute?  The Gearhead Consultancy is here to help, with suggestions (and excellent results) from our adventures in exploiting the retention-disabled.  ...Because Found On Road Awesome!   We catalog one month's grabs: a D-ring and hitch-block, channel-locks and flush-cuts, an air chuck and some serious scissors (all tools we can use), plus some sweet signage. You can do it too (...because geek). It's there for you: Sackpack's pricey flashlight, Walkin' Dude's yuge Ft. Carson & orange Yellow Freight signs, plus Justinius Rex's dozens of Snap-On tools and jar O' sockets.  Also, Earthlings?, Megadeth, Kyuss, Dog Fashion Disco, Filter, Solarized and Die Krupps.

Plan 9: An exercise in futility It is my right to exercise my futility wherever, whenever, and with whoever I please Some ideas about Plan 9: It's like the uncanny valley of UNIX Cool, but useless Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms? It does everything Unix does only less reliably - Ken Thompson If you cannot imagine a use for a computer that does not involve a web browser, Plan 9 may not be for you - 9front FQA #d/0:28: null list in concatenation History and description The boys at bell labs decide UNIX wasn't good enough so they decided to build something better: a distributed multiuser operating system composed of many machines. Many of the same ideas behind UNIX were pushed to absurd extremes. The idea that "everything is a file" is made blatantly apparent to everyone and sometimes, in my opinion, can feel 'overly-abstracted'. Additionally, the concept of private namespaces makes the concept of virtual filesystems seem like 'baby's first filesystem abstraction'. Just like UNIX, 9 started as a research operating system. Both are enjoyed by hobbyists, both are interesting ways of using a computer, both have a lot of fun in store. But the systems do diverge in one major aspect: UNIX is mainstream and 9 is still a research operating system. Plan 9 is currently distributed under the MIT license. "What is plan 9?", Taken directly from intro(1): Plan 9 is a distributed computing environment assembled from separate machines acting as terminals, CPU servers, and file servers. A user works at a terminal, running a window system on a raster display. Some windows are connected to CPU servers; the intent is that heavy computing should be done in those windows but it is also possible to compute on the terminal. A separate file server provides file storage for terminals and CPU servers alike. In practice, modern 9 users just run all of these services on a single machine because maintaining many machines to achieve a single usable 'operating system' is unnecessary; the 9 user finds himself scared and alone without enough users (1 is rarely enough) to justify building a distributed environment. Use cases Intended: distributed multiuser network (ie not mainframe), later embedded since UNIX was too bad to be stopped Actual: Acting like a UNIX hipster, pretending that 9 is anything other than vaporware, imagining that you are gaining social credit by posting screenshots of abandonware on internet forums. See also: Operating System Tourism 9 in the wild Unicode is now a plague rfork 9p leveraged by microsoft to discourage end users from actually running GNU+Linux as St Ignucius intended QEMU's VirtFS various window managers for UNIX, written by people who like the ideas behind 9 but not enough to actually run 9 "cool idea, I'm adding it to Linux" private namespaces union directories see: docker Design The goal of 9 was to build a distributed operating system that expands upon Unixy ideas, not to build something that's backwards compatible. "We want to improve UNIX" is mutually exclusive to "we want to port UNIX to this wacky new kernel". UNIX programs (and behemoths like FireFox) are difficult^impossible to port to 9 because of this design decision. Distributed operating systems Since 9 was designed to be a distributed operating system, many of the internals are oriented towards networking. On a single system installation, all three of the components that make a 9 network are working together in a client-server model. The filesystem is presented as a service, the CPU is presented as a service, and the terminal is presented as a service. This type of "abstraction from the physical hardware" makes it difficult to succinctly describe and explain 9. If you think about 9 as a heterogeneous network of machines the ideas start to make sense. If you think about 9 as a self-contained single-machine operating system the ideas only become more confusing. One thing that has helped me wrap my head around the client/server idea is actually thinking less. When running a MySQL server in a LAMP stack, the database server and client are running on the same machine. When writing a program, you instruct the client to access the database located at the address localhost. Despite the design intention to run the database as a separate machine, loopback device hacks ensue. The idea of client/server permeates 9. The filesystem? Presented as a server regardless of what physical machine it's located on. The CPU? Presented as a server regardless of what physical machine it's located on. The terminal? Presented as a server regardless of the physical machine it's located on. On a single machine 9 installation, all of these servers are running locally but accessed as if they were running remotely. Insanity ensues but at least it's easier to write code for. 9p: the Plan 9 Filesystem Protocol 9p is a networking protocol that makes this client/server model possible. Internally, the filesystem is served to the client over 9p. Many applications make use of 9p, including text editors, windowing systems, plumber, etc. In UNIX, everything is a file. In 9, everything is a filesystem accessed via 9p. Private Namespaces, Union Directories The most important aspect of 9: namespaces. Namespaces have caused me much confusion until recently. In 9, each process constructs a unique view of the filesystem. The phrase that gets stuck in my head is "a private namespace is a per-process view of the filesystem". The easiest way to think about namespaces is to think about a "virtual directory". Unix has "virtual filesystems", 9 has "virtual directories". The concept of namespaces allows a user to pull resources from all over the network and present them as "a single local filesystem" with absolute disregard for where these resources are actually coming from. In order to construct a namespace, union directories are used. A union directory is a directory made of several directories bound to the same directory. This concept is similar to a bind mount on UNIX. The kernel keeps separate mount table for each process. Using namespaces, a user or admin can create more secure isolated environments (similar to a chroot). Processes and their children are grouped together so that inheritance of the namespace occurs. These process groups can be customized. The 'per-process namespace' concept can be confusing to UNIX users at first, especially when binding (ie mounting) resources. When I first started using 9 I was very confused when I bound something in one terminal, switched to another, then became disoriented as the thing I just bound seemingly stopped existing. My big example is mounting the boot partition or a filesystem over ssh: # In this window, I have bound the boot partition. # It behaves expectedly. term% 9fs 9fat term% lc /n 9/ 9fat/ other/ ssh/ term% lc /n/9fat 9bootfat 9pc64 oldplan9.ini plan9.ini 9pc efi/ pbs.bak term% # In this other window, the boot partition doesn't seem to be mounted. # This causes much confusion for the end user. term% lc /n 9/ 9fat/ other/ ssh/ term% lc /n/9fat term% Files The second most important aspect of 9: "Everything is a file" taken to absurdist absolutes. The kernel presents hardware devices as files bound to /dev. Within the namespace, devices are just files. Outside the namespace, devices are named with a leading # to help distinguish between pseudo-files and devices. These physical devices are bound to /dev/ and presented as files for easy administration, access, and programming. Presenting everything as a file accessible via 9p greatly reduces the total number of system calls. Examples of "Everything is a file": # The clipboard in 9 is called /dev/snarf # We can easily write and read from this clipboard term% cat /dev/snarf SYNOPSIS #include #include #include term% term% fortune > /dev/snarf term% cat /dev/snarf If at first you succeed, try to hide your astonishment. term% # The display in 9 is called /dev/screen # We can easily take a screenshot term% file /dev/screen /dev/screen: plan 9 image, depth 32, size 1366x768 term% cat /dev/screen | topng > screenshot.png term% file screenshot.png screenshot.png: PNG image term% Message oriented filesystem Continuing with the idea that "everything is a filesystem", processes can offer services to other processes by placing virtual files into other processes' namespaces. File I/O on this special virtual file becomes interprocess communication. This is similar to a UNIX socket but significantly less difficult to program against because all of the hard parts have been abstracted: it's just simple file I/O. Virtual filesystem (with more special files) The /proc filesystem presents processes as a files in a filesystem. This makes writing programs that manage process extremely easy by reducing the total number of system calls to simple file I/O. The /proc filesystem allows users to manage processes using standard command line utilities like cat(1) and ls(1). Linux borrowed the idea of a /proc filesystem. Unicode Although the implementation is not fully internationalized, UTF-8 is fully there. Unicode is fully backwards compatible with ASCII. Thanks to ⑨, we now have people writing exclusively with primitive hieroglyphics instead of words. Portability Just like UNIX, 9 was designed with portability in mind. 9 is written in a strange dialect of ANSI C which means it's portable. Although the system is self hosting, images are rarely built on a self hosting environment. Instead, the end user will download a generic amd64 or i386 image, cross compile for the obscure target architecture, wrap it up in an install image, then burn that image to an install disk. After installation, it is generally a good idea to recompile the entire operating system so that your copy is self-hosted. The compiler suite is quite clever in that each compiler is named according to the target architecture, the object files are named according to the target architecture, etc. The alnum prefix/extensions are also shared by the various linkers and assemblers. 0c spim little-endian MIPS 3000 family 1c 68000 Motorola MC68000 2c 68020 Motorola MC68020 5c arm little-endian ARM 6c amd64 AMD64 and compatibles (e.g., Intel EM64T) 7c arm64 ARM64 (ARMv8) 8c 386 Intel i386, i486, Pentium, etc. kc sparc Sun SPARC vc mips big-endian MIPS 3000 family Filesystems Multiple filesystems are supported, most suck. The only one the average tourist has heard of is FAT. The one I use is cwfs64x(4). cwfs is a strange filesystem. Every night, it makes a dump of the filesystem. You can access these dumps by running: 9fs dump cd /n/dump/YYYY/MMDD/ And, managing the file server (trying to uncorrupt cwfs), all while the kernel is spraying error messages term% con -C /srv/cwfs.cmd help check tag check ream check free check After my system crashes, and after consulting fs(8), the above commands seem to solve my corruption problems. Not always. But sometimes. The cache is a WORM: Write Once Read Many filesystem. Traditionally, the "fast" hard drives would be backed up to tape archives. In the modern era, we have a WORM partition. The worm partition stores data forever so it will eventually get full and need cleaning. It is possible to run without a WORM but it's a bad idea. Built in version control. Data integrity not guaranteed. Secstore stores various passwords to nvram. BIOS integrety not gauranteed. If you don't like thrashing the nvram and it's limited write ops, an partition can be created and mouted as if it were nvram. Factotum stores various passwords in memory (like ssh-agent) Known forks Dead: Plan 9 From Bell Labs (also called 'Labs 9', the original) 9atom (even the domain has expired) Akaros Harvey (attempt to port 9 to GCC/Clang) NIX jehanneOS node9 inferno (in permanent limbo) Life Support: 9front (actively developed, many QOL patches) 9legacy (patches applied to Labs9) Plan 9 From User Space (also called 'plan9port', you will be laughed at) 9front is really the only 'usable' one because the QOL modifications add important things like general stability, git client, mercurial, ssh, various emulators, audio, WiFi, and USB support. Using 9 What does the 9 experience actually look like in 2022? You put 9 in a VM, posted a screenshot, shutdown the VM, then continued using Ubuntu because you can't play video games or easily watch videos online in 9. Hardware support in 9front is expanding but still limited. Refer to the list of supported hardware. I run 9front on a Thinkpad x220 and it seems to just work. Some people run it on a Raspi but I'm not sure why. It works quite well with KVM and QEMU if you're an OS tourist. I see no reason to add a dmesg because it will either work or it won't. Available software GNU might not be UNIX but 9 isn't even trying to be UNIX-like. GUI Unlink UNIX, 9 was designed with graphics in mind. Some people have said that the 9 GUI looks similar to a smalltalk machine but I think it's just the only good stacking window manager. A three button mouse is necessary for using 9front. Shift-rightclick emulates middle click. Rio Rio is the Plan 9 windowing system. It's the successor to 8½ window manager. Rio is lightweight compared to X11 because access to graphical hardware is built into the kernel and using files+namespaces to access input devices. The most brief way of explaining rio is to think of it as a rectangle multiplexer, where each rectangle is served a file interface (9p). Although rectangles might seem counterintuitive at first, thinking less hard makes it easier to use. I still have difficulty efficiently using a mouse-centric interface after using terminal interfaces almost exclusively for many years. I dislike the windows way of using a mouse but the 9 way seems to make quite a lot of sense when I "think less hard" and allow the intuition to take control. The argument for mouse-centric computing and text editing is that it's faster. Of course, the average vim user is editing text faster than the speed of thought but most people aren't the average vim user. Instead, they only know how to use arrow keys to move a cursor. Without memorizing hundreds of vim bindings (and forgetting the names and birth dates of your family members in the process), obviously a mouse is faster. Mouse controls are confusing at first because they follow the "click and hold, hover to option, release" to select an option. They look something like follows: Right click (window management controls) New Resize Move Delete Hide Middle click (text manipulation controls) cut paste snarf (copy highlighted text) plumb (send highlighted text to process, or, more effectively: open file with appropriate program) look (search for highlighted text) send (run highlighted text as a shell command) scroll (toggle autoscroll/noautoscroll) The left click button is used to select text and windows. The concept of mouse-chording is also prominent in rio but it's even more difficult to explain without a visual demonstration. Rio and it's windows also support UNIX style keyboard shortcuts: ^-u deletes from cursor to start of line ^-w deletes word before cursor ^-h deletes the character before the cursor ^-a moves the cursor to the start of the line ^-e moves the cursor to the end of the line ^-b moves the cursor back to the prompt ^-f is the autocomplete key, functionally equivalent to tab completion ^? (DEL key) is the equivalent to ^-c on UNIX Additionally, in a text window, the arrow keys and PgUp/PgDown keys behave as expected. The home/end keys scroll the window to the top/bottom of the text buffer respectively. These text windows have a built in pager so there is no more or less command. I can't decide if I like built in paging but it's definitely a thing to think about. The colorscheme of rio is dull and pastel and this is intentional. Less vibrant color schemes seem to fade away and become less obvious. Color themes like Tango, Linux Console, Solarized, all of KDE, and WIndows XP are very obvious but not in a good way. Bright colors are subtly distracting and make it difficult to concentrate. When I'm configuring a UNIX system with dwm, I borrow Rio's color theme because it's an anti-theme. Give it time. It's charming in it's own way. Modifying the source code for rio allows for custom color themes. It's possible but you will be laughed at. Setting a wallpaper is also possible but I don't do this because my windows are always covering the dull gray background. As for X11, the equis X11 server can only be run via linux compat layers. The lack of a viable X server is yet another reason 9 has no programs. Command Line Utilities The shell on 9 is called rc(1). It's like any other shell you've used except that you expect it to be bourne-like but it isn't. Standard UNIX shell concepts like pipes, file redirects, && and ||, etc. Scripting is not POSIX-like at all so reading the man page and various scripts written in rc is the only way to learn. Other various UNIX utilities exist and function as expected (although some of the ones you would like are missing). awk, grep, sed, cat, tar, gzip, ed, etc are present. Editors There are three primary ways of editing text on 9: ed(1), sam(1), and acme(1). There is no vi aside from the MIPS emulator, there is no emacs except for a man page explaining why there is no emacs. I have primarily used acme in the past, but sam is a much better editor. sam is a lot like a graphical version of ed. I still need to learn ed because it's the standard editor. Some of the standard vi commands are available and regex works. I like sam quite a lot but it seems to corrupt files when the system crashes. acme is a window manager, file browser, terminal emulator, and email client that some people use as a text editor. The coolest part about acme is the ability to write arbitrary editor and system commands in the menu bar, highlight them, then middle click to execute those commands. (Some of the ) Supported Networking Protocols IMAP good luck NTP IRC ircrc other non-default implementations exist FTP HTTP mothra is the standard web browser. It does not support CSS or all of the HTML tags. Obviously, javascript is unsupported. abaco exists. I've used it a few times. It renders slightly better than mothra but is a pain to use. Various inferno vaporware exists but the ports don't work NetSurf has been ported to 9front by leveraging components of APE. It almost works hget, like curl SSH it only works in conjunction with the vt(1) command. sshfs sshnet for proxying traffic VNC Various torrent software (magnet links not supported) Drawterm no, good luck, you will be laughed at Of course, 9p A Security aside Various server implementations for these protocols exist but you really shouldn't use them on the WAN as they are ancient, unmaintained, unaudited, and easy to exploit. Prime example: the /g/entoomen found a path traversal vulnerability in the 9front httpd server, then leveraged that vuln to exploit a vuln in the authentication system. Not that the boys back home did anything malicious with this bug . . . but the ability to pwn a system by sending cleverly crafted GET requests should tell you enough about the current state of security in 9. Firewall no Disk Encryption unreliable Access control what? filesystem cwfs has an poorly documented special user called none that is allowed to connect to fossil, cwfs, and maybe hjfs without a password. Set the nonone option in cwfs if you are even thinking about putting 9 on the internet. Don't even think about putting 9 on the internet UNIX compat layer (ape) APE is the ANSI POSIX Emulator. It doesn't work and is almost entirely empty. Lots of tiny programs to write, not much interest in writing lots of tiny program. There is a general attitude among 9 users that "9 is unique" porting POSIX libs to 9 would ruin the appeal. I almost think I agree with this sentiment. Emulation Linux don't GameBoy GameBoyAdvance NES SNES Sega MegaDrive/Genesis c64 vmx, a PC emulator (effectively virtualization) It's slow it almost works it crashes your system cwfs gets corrupted "runs" OpenBSD, Linux, and ancient Windows with graphics support and also various emulators for obscure architectures VCS Mercurial used to come with 9front but it has been removed. CVS does exist but not in the base system. A native git implementation exists and is in the base system. It's bare bones but it mostly works. Community Maintained Software The 9front community has been collecting known programs for some time and various other community software can be found in the wiki. Both are served as a ports system, similar to a BSD style ports system. There are no binary packages. Makefiles are broken. Programming Languages mkfiles 9 ships a program called mk(1). Syntax (in the simplest ways) is identical to UNIX make(1). The Absurdities of 9 C Plan 9 C is syntactically similar to ANSI C but it varies. The stdlibs on 9 are much simpler than the POSIX monster. /* POSIX C example */ #include int main(){ printf("hello, worldn"); return 0; } /* 9 C example */ #include #include void main(){ print("hello, worldn"); exits(0); } u.h contains CPU specific instructions, libc.h contains all of the system calls, time functions, math functions, unicode functions, and print functions. In contrast to POSIX, functions in 9c return strings instead of ints. # Compiling on UNIX $ cc main.c $ ./a.out hello, world $ # Compiling on 9 % 6c main.c % 6l main.6 % 6.out hello, world % In the 9 compiler example, I'm using the amd64 compiler and linker. Notice how the 6 persists as the prefix/suffix to help developers remember which architecture this specific program is written for. Instead of unspecific object files with a .o suffix, the object file's suffix is actually representative of what types of opcodes the file contains. Similarly, after linking, the 6. prefix tells us that the binary is for an amd64 processor. And also, the simplest UNIX program with buffers: read from stdin and write directly to stdout: /* POSIX C */ #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]){ char buf[32]; size_t bufs = sizeof(char)*32; size_t nread = 0; while((nread = fread(buf, 1, bufs, stdin)) > 0){ fwrite(buf, 1, nread, stdout); } return 0; } /* Plan 9 C */ #include #include void main(int argc, char *argv[]){ char buf[32]; char bufs = sizeof(char)*32; int nread = 0; while((nread = read(0, buf, bufs)) > 0){ write(1, buf, nread); } exits(0); } In 9, stdin is file descriptor 0, stdout is 1, and stderr is 2. And, the binary sizes betwen the two. You probably recognize a.out, this one was compiled with GCC. 6.out is an amd64 Plan 9 binary compiled on 9. $ ls -sh ./*.out 4.0K ./6.out 28K ./a.out Binaries on plan 9 are statically linked. It's somewhat strange to see that a statically linked binary is smaller than a dynamically linked one. Even compiling the plan 9 source on Linux using plan9port yeilds a large binary: 40K. I have not written 9C in a long time so I cannot say much more with confidence and authority. Refer to C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs for more information. The acid(1) debugger exists but it's hard to use if you're not fluent in assembly. Ancient Go Ancient Go once ran on 9. In 2022, you're better off just writing C and rc. WiFi Some wifi cards are supported on 9front. My thinkpad x220 uses the iwl drivers. The FQA is somewhat vague when it comes to actually using the drivers. Good luck :) Why isn't 9 more popular if it supposedly improves on "bad Unix ideas"? Unix is 'just good enough' 9 is not 'better enough' to beat out 'just good enough' Porting software is difficult^impossible because 9 was deliberately written to be not backwards compatible. "If you port it, they will come" 9 is uncomfortable to use if you have Unix muscle memory no modern web browser no video games (I'm pretty sure there are doom and quake source ports though) multimedia consumption is hard no GNU Why do people use 9 if it's so bad? I can't be sure about all other ~20 Plan 9 fans in the world, but for myself, it's purely out of a genuine curiosity and love for computing. My motivation for learning obscure, unnecessary, and quite frankly boring things related to computers is that it brings me some sense of satisfaction/accomplishment/enjoyment. Linux stopped being fun for me when I came to the realization that all distributions are fundamentally the same. I started exploring the BSD world only to realize that all UNIX-like operating systems are fundamentally the same. Although BSD remains a store of fun for me, I occasionally feel burned out on UNIX even if it's an abstract idea/experience/codebase I cherish. When I sit down at a computer my goal is always to discover something new, learn a new concept, explore alternative paradigms, and, most of all, to have fun in the process. For most people, 9 is a tourist experience. For me, it's the final frontier. Although I have yet to learn as much about 9 as I have about UNIX, every time I swap hard drives and boot into 9 I feel a sense of coming home. Sometimes I think I am wilfully resisting becoming a 9 expert because it will result in me struggling to find the next non-bad OS paradigm to explore. And when I think about "using a computer", what do I really do on the computer? I learn about it, learn about the software running on it, and proceed to write about it so that I can reinforce the ideas in a Feynman-esque way. I'm not really providing a real tangible value to the world because it's purely a "hey, here's the things I learned the hard way so you don't have to". Conclusion: How do I do xyz on 9? don't. search engines won't help. Man pages won't help. /sys/doc might help. Reading the source code won't help. have fun :) Or consider: term% vt -xb term% ssh user@host $ tmux a $ reset # some commands $ reset # some commands $ reset Alternatively: term% vncv host:display Further reading: 9front FQA. Very humorous, good information read the papers in /sys/doc or on cat-v.org Plan 9: Not dead, Just resting A visual demonstration of rio A visual demonstration of acme C Programming in Plan 9 from Bell Labs Plan 9 Desktop Guide. Might be useful for someone. Not too useful for me. Man pages are better. C04tl3 youtube channel. Lots of cool videos with information. Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9 from Bell Labs SDF public Plan 9 server

Tracklist: 1. Solarized 2. Gamma Player 3. Sleeping Giants 4. I9 5. Time Out Of Mind 6. Growth 7. Gateway Of Zen 8. Medusa 9. Man From Tomorrow 10. Spider Formation 11. Childhood (Maria's Mix) 12. Humana 13. Inner-Life

Here's something: The Man is after robot cars (but not for a reason that would fix the problem), rich guys are making the twits at Twatter crazier (because geek trumps nerd), Russian tanks are thwarted by Russian mud (how ironic), Chinese-made cameras are full of software and hardware back-doors (duhh), and how about that fool who idles 15 minutes waiting to park (in front of a hiking trail).  Meanwhile, does cognitive dissonance cause cancer?  ...Because it causes a lot of other sheddy stuff, like bureaucratic dehydration (No desal for you!). Smetal: Slayer, Sleep, Slot, Snail, Solarized, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Steril, Stick, Sugar Ray and 16-Volt.

Here's something: The Man is after robot cars (but not for a reason that would fix the problem), rich guys are making the twits at Twatter crazier (because geek trumps nerd), Russian tanks are thwarted by Russian mud (how ironic), Chinese-made cameras are full of software and hardware back-doors (duhh), and how about that fool who idles 15 minutes waiting to park (in front of a hiking trail).  Meanwhile, does cognitive dissonance cause cancer?  ...Because it causes a lot of other sheddy stuff, like bureaucratic dehydration (No desal for you!). Smetal: Slayer, Sleep, Slot, Snail, Solarized, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Steril, Stick, Sugar Ray and 16-Volt.

Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings.

Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Ned's choice of topic: Ralph Bakshi's animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. A heavily promoted effort at the time due it being both the first ever version of Tolkien's work done for film as well as due to Bakshi's notable reputation as the most well known American animator since Walt Disney and Chuck Jones, the 1978 movie was a reasonable success but not a smash, and the fact that it was only the first half of a planned two-film sequence – but not marketed as such – led to confused audiences and an upset Tolkien reader fanbase. At once a surprisingly faithful if still heavily redacted version of the book and a very unusual mix of animation styles that grew out of Bakshi's earlier movies, the film has retained a cult following since, and the resulting contrast with the later Peter Jackson movies has proven illuminating to both. What makes the sequences like the Flight to the Ford both compelling viewing and something of a slog? Which voice actors bring a notable depth to their characters along with the script and animation efforts – and which ones end up undercutting their characters completely? How does the shifting between particular animation styles, even within scenes, both act as intriguing experiment aiming to solve particular problems and yet also a confusing mess? And what is up with that incredibly generic musical score?SHOW NOTES.Jared's doodle. Jackson riffed on this scene for a reason.And Jared did bake a cake for Megaphonic's Kitchen Party! Check it out.The new Tolkien Estate page, worth a poke around.The Tolkien Society's announcement of Priscilla Tolkien's passing.Ralph Bakshi's site. The specific Lord of the Rings page has a variety of stills, behind the scenes shots and preparatory work from the production.The IMDB entry for Bakshi's production. (The film is available for streaming from a variety of services.)The AFI catalog entry for the production.Ralph Bakshi: Forging Through the Darkness, a short documentary.The Tolkien Experience, Episode 32: Ralph Bakshi, an extended interview by Luke Shelton.An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi's Lord of the Rings by Dan Olson of Folding Ideas. (And as we spoke about in the episode, Olson's two hour plus video on NFTs and crypto is an absolute must-watch.)Three Rings For Hollywood, Janet Brennan Croft's short comparative study of various film script adaptations of The Lord of the Rings up through Bakshi's adaptation.‘Will the Video Version of Tolkien Be Hobbit Forming?,' John Culhane's late 1977 New York Times story on the Rankin-Bass Hobbit which also includes separate quotes from Bakshi on his then-forthcoming adaptation.Vincent Canby's review of the film for the New York Times.Roger Ebert's review of the film for the Chicago Sun-Times.Mythlore 19, Winter 1979, which contains two reviews of the film from Steven Walker and Dale Ziegler.Information on Amon Hen 39, published in June 1979, which contains four separate reviews of the film, including the Mythlore review from Steven Walker.‘Hobbits On Film,' Glenn Gaslin's 2001 retrospective consideration of the Bakshi production for Slate, written in the run-up to the release of Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring.Bakshi's 2015 interview with TheOneRing.net.Austen Gilkenson's extended 2018 study of the film for Tor, part one and part two.Ned's own 2018 piece about the film and other Tolkien adaptations of the time, published in the Quietus.A TV ad for the film.The Electric Company Magazine! And like Ned said, there was a tie-in issue.As for the board game, it had Shelob at least.You know the Spider-man meme. As for Bakshi on his Spider-man experience, he's not thrilled…That Legolas reaction. It's a choice.The Flight to the Ford scene – well worth watching even if you don't know the full film, it sums up both the strengths and oddities of the adaptation.An example of the intriguing angular design of the Shire woods in the Shadow of the Past Goes Outdoors sequence. (Compare to Eyvind Earle's work on Disney's Sleeping Beauty.)The full Lothlorien sequence, with Galadriel's fashion sense, the strange elf choir, the training montage as such and the Mirror of Galadriel highs and lows.Two notable sequences showing how Bakshi's Aragorn is as Jared puts it ‘his' Aragorn (costume aside): his meeting with the Hobbits in the Prancing Pony parlor and Boromir's death, especially with the wordless reaction from Aragorn near the end of the clip.The Council of Elrond sequence definitely is a moment. Not a GOOD moment…The Shadow of the Past sequence, with the quick cuts of the seasons, Gandalf being crabby and stagy, Frodo's agape reaction to the Ring being tossed into the fire and so forth.Gandalf meets Saruman – or Aruman, depending on the line. Orthanc's design and Saruman's MANY COLORS! included.The hobbits first encounter the Nazgul, and it's a truly creepy moment.Ah yes the Balrog. We agree with the title of this clip.Aside from the opening credits, the prologue sequence is really impressive as we note. But yeah that one Elves bit.Our episode on Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring. And our orc episode.Gollum being Gollum. And almost being redeemed towards the end of this clip. (Per Jared's comparison, here's Quentin Crisp on Letterman.)Grima petting Theoden. Can't put it any plainer.Sam, Sam, Sam. Where to begin? So many examples. And then there's that ‘moment.'Aragorn takes a tumble. Helm's Deep here is not exactly Jackson's.That's one big skull in Moria. Meantime, is Rivendell a lamasery?If you REALLY want to hear the soundtrack… But yes, just listen to Rosenman's Star Trek IV soundtrack instead as Jared suggests.The heroic ending! Sorta. Maybe. If you squint.Support By-The-Bywater and Megaphonic FM on Patreon!

Alex Smith is a sci-fi writer who is on the show today to promote Black Vans:  LGBTQ/People of color Cyberpunk Super Hero Comic Series.    Alex is in the process of having this project published through a kickstarter campaign.  The link to this campaign is included in the show notes.   To date, Alex has raised approximately $15,426 towards this project and it is set to be released in September 2021.  Alex is a musician (art-punk bands Solarized, Rainbow Crimes), activist (Metropolarity queer sci-fi collective) and cultural/arts critic (Pitchfork, The Key, Bandcamp, Philly Gay News).   He is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and soon to be published author of the sci-fi/cyberpunk/super-hero/afrofuturist short story collection ARKDUST, forthcoming from Rosarium Publishing. Alex's contact information is below:IG: @Theyarebirds, Website: https://www.alexoteric.com   Email:  theyarebirds@gmail.comBLACK VANS is a comic book a cyberpunk, super-hero mash up, a strange tale about pharmaceutical companies run amok in a Phuture Philadelphia, where hackers provide intel, communications, and surveillance for the slowly disappearing super-hero community. The hackers, called EQ's, are a wild bunch--they fall along the queer/LGBT spectrum, their ranks reflecting the ethnic diversity of the city they're from and of the larger world.  Artist James Dillenbeck (@jamesdillenbeck on Instagram) and writer Alex Smith met through instagram-- Smith was fascinated with Dillenbeck's fantastic work, admiring the strange and surreal worlds he created that combined 80's retrofuturism, weird fantasy elements inspired by HEAVY METAL magazine, Mad Max and Bladerunner.SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS! 

Alex Smith is a sci-fi writer who is on the show today to promote Black Vans:  LGBTQ/People of color Cyberpunk Super Hero Comic Series.    Alex is in the process of having this project published through a kickstarter campaign.  The link to this campaign is included in the show notes.   To date, Alex has raised approximately $15,426 towards this project and it is set to be released in September 2021.  Alex is a musician (art-punk bands Solarized, Rainbow Crimes), activist (Metropolarity queer sci-fi collective) and cultural/arts critic (Pitchfork, The Key, Bandcamp, Philly Gay News).   He is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and soon to be published author of the sci-fi/cyberpunk/super-hero/afrofuturist short story collection ARKDUST, forthcoming from Rosarium Publishing.  Alex's contact information is below: IG: @Theyarebirds, Website: https://www.alexoteric.com    Email:  theyarebirds@gmail.com BLACK VANS is a comic book a cyberpunk, super-hero mash up, a strange tale about pharmaceutical companies run amok in a Phuture Philadelphia, where hackers provide intel, communications, and surveillance for the slowly disappearing super-hero community. The hackers, called EQ's, are a wild bunch--they fall along the queer/LGBT spectrum, their ranks reflecting the ethnic diversity of the city they're from and of the larger world.  Artist James Dillenbeck (@jamesdillenbeck on Instagram) and writer Alex Smith met through instagram-- Smith was fascinated with Dillenbeck's fantastic work, admiring the strange and surreal worlds he created that combined 80's retrofuturism, weird fantasy elements inspired by HEAVY METAL magazine, Mad Max and Bladerunner. SUPPORT OUR ARTISTS!  

Ep 4 AZIZ IBRAHIMINTROAlright - welcome to My 90s music podcast - the podcast where I talk to the people who lived, loved and were in the eye of the storm of the best decade ever - the glorious 90s.From Atlanta Georgia To Longsight Manchester Recognise that line? You should it's from Daybreak by The Stone Roses from the album The Stone Roses. That line means so much to my next guest who grew up in Longsight Manchester on a council estate, dodged becoming a Doctor against his parents wishes and became one of the most gifted guitarists of his generation. Today I had the real pleasure of chatting to one of the most positive and savvy people I have met in a long time and that man is Aziz Ibrahim. Aziz'z energy was palpable even through the zoom audio line as he talked about how kids and technology are the future of music and if you are going to be successful today you have to learn this stuff and understand where the consumption of music is going. Aziz has a new single out called THE KEY OF 3 which you can hear on Spotify, Apple Music etc and also a great line in cool merchandise called M13 (the postcode of Longsight Manchester) including t shirts saying Longsight Loves Ya and Johnny Cash-miri - https://www.wornfree.com/search?type=product&q=aziz*However, this is MY 90s Music podcast soi we talk about his days in Simply Red, Prog Rock Band Asia, What it was like to join the Stone Roses and filling shoes as big as John Squires and then onto how Aziz got to be himself and unleash his true talent working on songs with Ian Brown from his first solo album Unfinished Monkey Business through to Solarized. OUTROWhat a joy TO TALK TO Aziz Ibrahim about his 90s experience.Do follow Aziz on @azizibrahim56 and @MBazizandinder on twitter to see what he's up to and also please check out his new single The Key of 3 and his Clothing label M13 https://www.wornfree.com/Thanks so much for listening to this episode. I hope that it filled you with as much joy, nostalgia and happiness that it did for me. Please do share this podcast with your 90s obsessed friend and follow me on @my90smusicpodcast on facebook and instagram and @my90smusicpod on twitterLastly please do go to Mixcloud to hear my 90s based radio show, just search for supersonic 90s radio show. Until next time, Keep it 90s. Over and out.

In this episode, Robert speaks with Francis about a recent article that sparked his interest on solar technology. What if we could create transparent solarized windows? What if we could redesign the structure of the communications network? Learn more about these solarized windows, the flat net, omni-mesh, and the power of context.

This movie is awesome It is! And also we’re old. But honestly this is still unironically the best thing. The legacy of the Matrix. Falling back in love with the Wachowskis. Addressing the sequels. Cyberpunk The Matrix as cyberpunk. Comparing against other touchstones. Philip K Dick. William Gibson’s review from the time. When I began to write NEUROMANCER, there was no “cyberpunk”. THE MATRIX is arguably the ultimate “cyberpunk” artifact. Or will be, if the sequels don’t blow. I hope they don’t, and somehow have a hunch they won’t, but I’m glad I’m not the one who has to worry about it. -William Gibson, lol Old school computing Damn kids and their pixels. CRT displays and low/high persistence phosphorus and how we wound up irl with the bright glowing green text aesthetic that informed The Matrix. Eye fatigue back in the day. Computer-touchers. Staring at people at work for fun and profit. The Solarized color schemes. The Matrix Taking the red pill. How easy it actually really is to explain what The Matrix is. Neo is a giant, slimy baby. The inefficiencies of using humans as batteries when you have fusion power. Grass, tastes bad. Benevolent AI Dictators But WHAT IF The Matrix actually has humanity’s best interests in mind? The possibility that they really tried to give us our utopia. Virtual worlds Plasticity and your brain’s willingness to accept new input schemes. Designing The Matrix with a “failsafe” so the humans are unadapted to their physical bodies irl. Acquired synaesthesia. Supernumerary limbs and phallic cartwheels. Upside down goggles and adaptation to a new “up.” Permanence in sensory adaptations. Hacking The Matrix Bendable physics. The difficulty with bending or breaking the rules of computing hardware. The Backwards Brain Bicycle by Smarter Every Day: YouTube The Animatrix: iTunesAmazonYouTube The Pizza Matrix (it's terrible): YouTube Support the show!

A couple of years ago, I fell in love with a color scheme: off-white text accented with a buttery yellow-orange and a neutral blue against a deep gray, the "color of television, tuned to a dead channel," to borrow a phrase from Neuromancer author William Gibson. The colors were part of a theme called "Solarized Dark" for the popular MacOS code editor TextMate. To be honest, I didn't think much of Solarized at first. But I soon found that I couldn't work with any other color scheme.

Regresan nuestros macro especiales sobre OASIS donde repasamos su carrera al milímetro. Esta vez Ernesto nos adentra en la era 'Don't Belive the Truth' y contamos con la colaboración de Natalia y Fran. Lo que sonó: 1 Let There Be Love (Demo) 2 Turn up the sun 3 Mucky Fingers (live) 4 Stop Crying Your Heart Out (live) 5 Lyla (live) 6 Part of the queue 7 A Bell Will Ring (live) 8 The Meaning Of Soul (live) 9 The importance of being idle 10 Guess god thinks i'm abel (Acústico Liam & Gem) 11 Love like a bomb 12 Keep the dream alive 13 Supersonic (live) 14 Columbia (live Chicago Metro 1994) 15 Ian Brown - Keep what ya got (Solarized) 16 Eyeball tickler 17 Wont let you down 18 Can you see it now (I can see it now) 19 Can you see it now (demo) 20 Sittin here in silence on my own 21 Pass me down the wine 22 The quiet ones 23 Who put the weight of the world on my shoulders 24 I'ts a crime 25 Let there be love 26 Rock'n'roll star (live Manchester 2005) 27 Lord don't slow me down 28 Stop the clocks (Liverpool Zanzibar Club) 29 Married with Children (Liverpool Zanzibar Club)

Regresan nuestros macro especiales sobre OASIS donde repasamos su carrera al milímetro. Esta vez Ernesto nos adentra en la era 'Don't Belive the Truth' y contamos con la colaboración de Natalia y Fran. Lo que sonó: 1 Let There Be Love (Demo) 2 Turn up the sun 3 Mucky Fingers (live) 4 Stop Crying Your Heart Out (live) 5 Lyla (live) 6 Part of the queue 7 A Bell Will Ring (live) 8 The Meaning Of Soul (live) 9 The importance of being idle 10 Guess god thinks i'm abel (Acústico Liam & Gem) 11 Love like a bomb 12 Keep the dream alive 13 Supersonic (live) 14 Columbia (live Chicago Metro 1994) 15 Ian Brown - Keep what ya got (Solarized) 16 Eyeball tickler 17 Wont let you down 18 Can you see it now (I can see it now) 19 Can you see it now (demo) 20 Sittin here in silence on my own 21 Pass me down the wine 22 The quiet ones 23 Who put the weight of the world on my shoulders 24 I'ts a crime 25 Let there be love 26 Rock'n'roll star (live Manchester 2005) 27 Lord don't slow me down 28 Stop the clocks (Liverpool Zanzibar Club) 29 Married with Children (Liverpool Zanzibar Club)

Host Kathy Sipple speaks with Madi Hirschland of the Hoosier Solar Initiative Steering Committee about the group's current efforts statewide, training opportunities and how you can get involved.

Kid Goggles finally gets an 80s flick!  And it’s a doozy.  Joshua Alvarez,  who is the co-host of the stellar podcast Cinepunx and a musician from Solarized, Crossed Keys and more, talks about his complicated relationship to the Carpenter cult-classic.  Without nostalgia, can Kurt Russell and a dose of self-awareness sustain this action/kung-fu/comedy movie? Also, Read more…

I AM CINEPUNX, AND THIS IS EPISODE 63! Welcome you, our intergalacticly cultured audience, and thank you for giving us your precious time! On this cosmic adventure packed episode we discussed the latest Marvel release, GUARDIANS OF THE  GALAXY VOLUME 2, James Gunn’s trippy and feel good comic book adventure tale. SPACE! LASERS! VIOLENCE! LIVING PLANETS! DADDY ISSUES! GROOT! Our special guest this week is Philly punk luminary ANDY NELSON! You may know Andy from his many bands like PAINT IT BLACK/ CEREMONY/ OPEN CITY/ DARK BLUE, or from booking shows in Philly. Andy is a big film fan, and would have a LOT to say about French New Wave directors, but we wanted to talk about GOTGV2 so fuck it, we will just have him back on again later.   We start off the episode with extended conversation on a variety of random topics, though we are TRYING to mention our sponsors, LEHIGH VALLEY APPAREL CREATIONS Josh also manages to get the bands Andy has been in very wrong. We then moved into Wack and On Track, where we discuss Ex-Fest, John Waters, Get Better Fest, the new Solarized tape ,Death Rides a Horse, Street Asylum, Raw, new music releases, that crappy King Arthur movie, and more! We then get into the meat of the discussion around Guardians , a film we all enjoyed, but with varying levels of skepticism. Right now there is a lot of folks getting upset about negative takes on this film, mostly because of the some really poorly thought out pieces criticizing baby Groot. Please, don’t @ us about this, we liked the movie, we just maybe didn’t LOVE it as much as y’all did.   We also plug some important stuff worth linking to, as well as feature some music you might care about OPENING SONG OPEN CITY DARK BLUE CEREMONY RESIDENCY BREAK FREE FEST GOT ME A MOVIE BLACK SUN DISPATCHES THE MAHONING DRIVE IN THEATER EXHUMED FILMS JAMES HARRIS MEMORIAL SCREENING HUDSON JAMES HARRIS MEMORIAL SCREENING YONKERS   Thanks to Andy, Jaime Burchardt, Lehigh Valley Apparel Creations, Exhumed films and especially Justin Miller, and all of you for being the greatest! We have had a LOT more people approach us in person and let us know they love the show, THANK YOU! Please, also comment and repost and create internet buzz by talking us up!! RATE REVIEW ‘SUBSCRIBE DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD Continue, as we know you will, to be the best ever   The post CINEPUNX Episode 63- GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 with Andy Nelson ( DARK BLUE, OPEN CITY, CEREMONY, PAINT IT BLACK) appeared first on Cinepunx.

Unser hochgeschätztes macOS hat immer noch einen UNIX Unterbau. Der Inbegriff dessen ist wohl die Kommandozeile. Dieser Ort an dem man Herrscher über die Naturgewalten sein kann, wird heute von Andreas und Patrick genauer unter die Lupe genommen. Von häufig genutzten Befehlen hin zu Lieblingsapps geht es im Zick-Zack-Flug voran. Lieber Fluggast, wenn dir das Gehörte gefällt oder dir Sorgenfalten auf die edle Stirn fabriziert, dann haben wir etwas für dich: iTunes Bewertungen. Die heutige Episode von Der Übercast wird unterstützt von: Wire – der sichere Messenger für private und berufliche Kommunikation hatte kürzlich einen Sicherheitsaudit. Dieser bestätigt dem Messenger einen hohen Sicherheitsstandard. Zudem gehören – dank der neuen Textsuche – verlorengegangene Nachrichten ab sofort der Vergangenheit an. Giveaway Um ein T-Shirt zu gewinnen registriert euch einfach bei Wire - vorzugsweise über die Adresse ubercast.wire.com - und befreundet @derubercast. Im Chat dort beantworten wir auch jedwede Frage zur aktuellen Sendung, zur Show im Allgemeinen oder was die Antwort auf die allumfassendste Frage auf der Welt ist. Follow-up Plex’s Bold Plan To Take On The Streaming Goliaths Nützliche Reddit Bookmarklets hier und hier. Auch nicht schlecht: Go to subreddits’ imgur gallery Routen in Google Maps speichern und wieder aufrufen View your My Maps using Google Maps - Computer - Google Maps Help Save directions on My Maps - My Maps Help Laufrouten auf’s Handy mit MapMyRun ili - Wearable Translator VR Desktop for Mac - Use your Mac in Virtual Reality AirJack YouTube: Lickster ForkLift 3 Crates und Crates: Beatport Track Digging, But Way Better Passbolt – Open source password manager for teams #sysPass :: Systems Password Manager Terminal/Shell/Kommandozeile & Dotfiles Bash fish shell Zsh Oh My Zsh Der Unterschied zwischen .profile, .bashrc, .bash_profile, usw.: Stack Overflow Oft benutzt und gerne gesehen ⌃a, ⌃e, ⌃k !! ⌃r !$ => wiederholt das letzte Argument nach dem vorherigen Kommando ^nanp^nano => Rechtschreibekorrektur Lieblingstools, -binaries, -oneliner oder was auch immer iTerm2 - macOS Terminal Replacement iTerm Replacement Icon by Jason Long - Dribbble (Sketch Version) Using Hazel To Replace Application Icons — RocketINK Iterm Themes - Color Schemes and Themes for Iterm2 Patrick sagt auch Solarized den Krieg an. Er hat sich sattgesehen daran und braucht nun öfters Abwechslung. Mit iTerm kann man wunderbar Farbschemas Profilen zuweisen und diese auch der Shortcut aufrufen. Was sind unsere 5 liebsten CLI Tools? Andreas: ffmpeg gifenc.sh pdf2svg pandoc dayone_export Patrick: stow: Managing your dotfiles with GNU Stow wkhtmltopdf ImageMagick (siehe auch bei RocketINK) FileBot - The ultimate TV and Movie Renamer Remind – Roaring Penguin (Linux man page) voices: macOS CLI for changing the default TTS (text-to-speech) youtube-dl alias yt='youtube-dl -o "~/Desktop/%(uploader_id)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"' alias tyt='torify youtube-dl -o "~/Desktop/%(uploader_id)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"' alias yta='youtube-dl -f mp3/m4a/aac/wav/bestaudio -o "~/Desktop/%(uploader_id)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"' alias tyta='torify youtube-dl -f bestaudio -o "~/Desktop/%(uploader_id)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s"' Dotfiles und Kram von anderen: commandlinefu.com BrettTerpstra.com: Shell tricks: the OS X open command herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line: Use your OS X terminal shell to do awesome things. sjl / dotfiles / source / — Bitbucket osxdaily.com: Basic Command Line Utilities, Tips, & Commands Lifehacker: Become a Command Line Ninja With These Time-Saving Shortcuts AWK one-liner collection Stackoverflow morgant/tools-osx: A small collection of command line tools for Mac OS X, incl.: clipcat, dict, eject, ql, swuser, trash & with. Package Manager Homebrew — The missing package manager for macOS Homebrew Cask Cakebrew Nix: The Purely Functional Package Manager Fink MacPorts Delight in Your Desktop Duo MacLibre – Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X Rudix Unsere Picks Patrick: Star Order Andreas: Fünf Hausmittel ersetzen eine Drogerie In Spenderlaune? Wir haben Flattr und PayPal am Start und würden uns freuen.

IT IS THE END OF THE YEAR YALLLLLL!!! Welcome to another mind bending and morals crushing episode of Cinepunx, the internet’s number one source for strong opinions, shallowly researched, on obscure things. On this episode we discussed some of our favorite music and movies from the past year. If you would like to submit your picks to the official CINEPUNX year end round up, check this out! Josh also discusses some recent shows he has played, and tells a story of a bike trip gone horribly wrong, not just cause he sat through ASSASIN’S CREED! I saw ROGUE ONE just like the rest of America, and has opinions on the matter. We get into it on some records we really liked. One which we both liked, though Josh played on it so that is kind of cheating, is the SOLARIZED demo https://solarized.bandcamp.com/releases Also they have a show coming up you should check out! As I said,  we have an official post coming that will have the end of year pics from the whole Cinepunx team. I know my list is different since we recorded this episode cause I saw MORRIS IN AMERICA and SHIN GODZILLA, both of which I freaking loved. There are a few other links I should be adding but I can’t remember what they are. I can say we mention a lot of podcasts who support us, please search those out and support them. On this episode, the sound is not great. We have a new sound editor who did everything he could to reduce the noise levels, but yet again when I recorded it I did something wrong so we got a lot of background fuzz. When you digitally cut stuff like that out it leaves an echo sound, and so there is some of that here. Many apologies. I really hate it when stuff like this goes wrong, but this is the sort of thing we need to make some changes and fix, and you support on our Patreon makes that possible, so thanks! RATE REVIEW SUBSCRIBE AND DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD DOWNLOAD also please check out and share the Patreon page   HOPE YOUR HOLIDAY SEASON IS NICE AND FUN AND NOT AT ALL SAD AND DARK The post CINEPUNX Episode 59: The Year that was 2016 appeared first on Cinepunx.

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Es gibt weit mehr als Dropbox and 1Password das auf einen Mac gehört. Wir diskutieren all die kleinen Helfer und Menu-Apps, die es verdienen als erstes auf einen jungfräulichen Mac installiert zu werden. Wir machen uns in Folge 10 über einen rein hypothetisch leeren Mac her und verkünden, was die Bare Essentials sind die jeder installieren muss. Da wir natürlich nicht alle gleich ticken, werden darauf hin ein paar individuelle Extras aufgezählt, welche jeder von uns mental als essentiell abgespeichert hat. Lieber Fluggast, wenn dir das Gehörte gefällt oder dir Sorgenfalten auf die edle Stirn fabriziert, dann haben wir etwas für dich: iTunes Bewertungen. Überbleibsel giveaway Unser gigantöses _giveaway__ hat seine Gewinner gefunden: Die Marked 2 gesponsort von Brett Terpstra himself gehen an: @das_schaf und Angela Meyhöfer. “Delight is in the Details“ von Shawn Blanc dürfen sich @tobiasbrummer und @wissmann für lau ordern. Die Fournova Lizenzen von Tower 2 gehen an Thomas Schlosser und @ningwie. Wir freuen uns, dass dieses Mal mehr Leute mitgemacht haben und einige auf Facebook gar den Link geteilt haben mit ihren Freunden. Falls ihr es dieses Mal nicht geschafft habt was abzustauben, harrt aus, denn heute hauen wir zwei TextExpander Lizenzen von Smile als giveaway raus. Eigentlich sollten hier jetzt noch ein paar Überbleibsel stehen, aber Piloten sind auch nur Menschen und machen beispielsweise beim durchgehen der Checkliste Fehler. Falls ihr uns nur hört ist euch das wahrscheinlich gar nicht aufgefallen, aber hier wird ungeschönt und brutal die Wahrheit ans Tageslicht gefördert in Form von decodierten Nullen und Einsen, die live und direkt auf euern’ Bildschirm gezaubert werden. Magie (wenn auch schwarze). Überschallneuigkeiten Das Navdy Heads-up Display ist ein beeindruckendes Gadget mit enger iOS und Android Integration und eignet sich perfekt zum Nachrüsten in euern Skoda. Das Schmankerl hat Untertstützung für Gesten (in der Luft) und Spracherkennung an Bord. Zur Zeit kann man es für 299$ vorbestellen (später sind es 499$ im Verkauf). Als Lieferdatum ist Anfang 2015 angegeben. Alpha und Omega Jeder Macintosh-mit-der-Maus-und-Tastatur Bediener kennt die Situation: Der erste Start und man fängt an seine Lieblingsanwendungen zu installieren. Sven hat schon einmal im Hinblick auf unsere heutige Sendung vor einem Jahr seinen Blog Post The Fresh Mac Install veröffentlicht und verweist zugleich auf die extra-nerdige Version von Brett Terpstra der ebenfalls zeigt, was auf einen neuen Mac bei ihm so draufkommt. Der gemeinsame Nenner Irgendwie sind wir uns ja doch ein wenig einig. Ohne Dropbox geht gar nix. Wir alle installieren die App zu aller aller erst und genießen dann, wie unsere wichtigen Dateien und Einstellungen für das System ab sofort vollautomatisch synchronisiert werden auf unsere Festplatte und der Kaffee automatisch heiß und frisch gebrüht überbracht wird. Damit wir uns im Der Ubercast Adminbereich einloggen können und dort Unruhe Stiften können wir als nächstes 1Password runtergeladen. Ab dem Moment haben wir Zugriff auf alle Logins für Webanwendungen, sonstige webbasierte Dienste und die erworbenen Lizenzen. De facto, auch ohne 1Password geht es nicht. Das war es auch schon. Episode Ende. … nein, nicht wirklich. Aber da es ab hier wieder anfängt Turbulenzen durch die Turbine zu hageln, folgt nun eine grobe Unterteilung. Die zweite Stufe: Launcher Damit die Muskelreflexe nicht ins Leere gehen während man Mac per Tastaturkürzel bedient muss natürlich der Launcher des Vertrauens her. Bei Sven ist das Alfred 2. Andreas kommt eigentlich mit Apple Spotlight gut aus und stuft Launcher per se nicht unbedingt als Teil der Bare Essentials ein. Irgendwann installiert er aber doch LaunchBar, weil dass sich so gehört. Patrick fährt zweigleisig. Er hat ⌘-SPACE für LaunchBar reserviert, was auch eine der ersten Apps ist, welche er installiert. So kann er spielend durch die Ordner auf seinem Mac springen – was er mit Alfred nicht gut kann, da die App leider keine fuzzy search Funktion hat (z.B. wird der Teekränzchen Ordner nicht gefunden, wenn man nur Kränzchen eingibt). Etwas später folgt dann aber trotzdem Alfred 2 mit ⌥-SPACE, weil viele der Skripte und Workflows von den Nutzern einfach so gut sind. Wie wichtig uns die Launcher sind verraten die Zahlen, denn die Lügen ja bekanntlich nie: Alfreds Sven oder Svens Alfred wurde seit dem 4. Juni 2013 insgesamt 7.008 mal aufgerufen, damit drückt er seinen ⌃+SPACE Shortcut 16,8 am Tag. Patricks Alfred ist reaktiviert seit dem 25. Juli 2013 und er hat den Butler 2.190 mal mit den Glöckchen herbeigeklingelt. Im Durchschnitt sind das läppische 5,7 mal am Tag. Dafür haut er bei LaunchBar so richtig in die Tasten: Durchschnittlich 110x pro Tag (Spitzenwert: 214). Andreas ist wie sein Co-Pilot “Kombinator” (die Spitznamen werden von LaunchBar ausgesucht nach dem Nutzerverhalten), beide lieben die Send to und Instant Send Funktionen. Andreas kommt auf 65 Aufrufe pro Tag (Spitzenwert: 207). Damit Patrick diese Statistik beim nächsten Jubiläum von Der Übercast zur Hand hat und vergleichen kann, ob sich was geändert hat, werdet ihr nun zugescreenshotet: Link zum Bild: Launcher Statistik Futter für den Launcher Sven’s favorisierte Alfred Workflows (siehe auch #UC007 zum Thema LaunchBar): Rdio Caffeine VPN Toggle Evernote Add to Fantastical Alfred for Trello Translation für Google Translate Nebenbei nutzt er auch Suchfunktionen im Beruf und halt auch, um die eigenen Artikel auf der Webseite flott zu Tage zu fördern. Andreas nutzt naturellement die eigenen LaunchBar Actions, daneben noch die Livesuchen für dict.cc, Merriam-Webster und diese fantastische Spotlight Search Action. Bei Patrick kommt LaunchBar skripttechnisch nicht so zum Einsatz. Hauptsächlich nutzt er die Websuchen von StackExchange, GitHub, Amazon, eBay und Co. Die Google Maps suchen nutzt er ganz oft, sei es um die Route direkt anzuzeigen oder einen Ort zu suchen. Alfred versüßt ihm die studentische Tätigkeit mit BibDesk Search, BibQuery und Skimmer. Daneben kommt noch vom Internet-Buddy Gabe Weatherhead der Application Buckets mit auf die stets-im-Einsatz Liste – ein Horter und App-Messi braucht so was. TextExpander (inkl. giveaway) Weil wir alle einigermaßen faul sind gehört auch Smile Software TextExpander zu einen der ersten Apps die installiert werden. Das ist nützlich und nicht zum Lachen. Pfui Andreas und Patrick! Aber deswegen wird ja nicht gelacht. Auch nicht, weil wir zwei Lizenzen für das tüchtige Helferlein TextExpander abzugeben haben. Wer wissen will, warum bei einem Audioformat wie ‘nem Podcast brav melden wie in der Schule nix bringt, der hört am besten rein an dieser Stelle. Zurück zur Tagesordnung: Bei Sven sind die Markdown Service Tools von Brett Terpstra integriert und SearchLink, ebenfalls aus dem Hause Terpstra. Das man als Poweruser Snippets in andere Snippets integrieren kann verrät euch Andreas. Dieser packt Shell Scripts und AppleScripts zusammen und triggert was das Zeug hält. Daneben findet Andreas die Autokorrekturgruppen der Deutschen Sprache noch ganz nützlich und das diese bei ihm gar auf auto-update gestellt sind. Patrick tut kund, dass es für in als 30:70 Deutsch-Englisch-Schreiber oft ein Ärgernis ist, die Autokorrekturgruppen manuell von übereifrigen Snippets zu befreien. Geschäftstiger (roar!!) Sven beichtet derweil, dass er den Namen vom Chef automatisch korrigieren lässt, damit er nicht wie der letzte Horst bei den wichtigen Emails dasteht. Anbei dazu ein Post von Dr. Drang der euch zeigt, was so mit geht mit einer Skript in Skript Lösung: Modular URL shortening TextExpander snippets. Was als Blogger nicht fehlen darf in der Ideenschmiede für Snippets ist Shaun Blancs Idee Namen aus der Technologie-Szene automatisch zu korrigieren. Anmerkung der Redaktion zum letzten Tipp und dem Thema “Nerd-Shaming”: Dies ist auch ein Tipp an Sven, der in den Show Notes eine App immer wieder ganz individuell geschrieben hat. TextExpander giveaway Was gibt es abzustauben??? 2 Lizenzen für TextExpander von Smile Wie nehme ich teil? (1) Hört euch den Flug UC#010 an (2) Werdet sozial aktiv: Auf allen sozialen Netzwerken findet ihr einen speziellen Post zu unserem Gewinnspiel. Es gilt diese frohe Botschaft zu verkünden. Es reicht sich ein soziales Netzwerk auszusuchen, dem Übercast dort zu folgen, bzw. zu liken Auf Facebook den Beitrag teilen und liken Oder auf Twitter den entsprechenden Tweet retweeten Es geht sogar bei Google+ plusen und sharen Oder bei App.net reposten Mit diesen zwei Schritten seid ihr im Pool und vielleicht einer der glücklichen Gewinner. Klar, wenn ihr auf mehreren Netzwerken aktiv werden, so steigert ihr damit auch eure Chancen. Teilnahmeschluss ist Sonntag, der 22. August 2014. Die Bekanntgabe der Gewinner erfolgt dieses Mal direkt und persönlich im Sozialen Kanal der Kandidaten, da unser Aufnahmeplan gerade etwas unregelmäßiger aussieht. Die Helfer im Hintergrund Wir nähern uns der Nicht-Essentiell-trotzdem-cool Ecke. Derjenige mit dem Micro auf Senden ist gerade Patrick. Dieser merkt an, dass bevor der ein neues System aufsetzt, er als erstes seine TaskPaper-Liste zu rate zieht: Setup a new system: - Go through this list and adjust it (add missing pieces, etc.) - Make a SuperDuper! backup - Optional: Rename Hard Drives - Adjust path to volume/file location - Adjust paths in Hazel scripts - Adjust paths in Keyboard Maestro scripts - Adjust paths in TextExpander scripts - Adjust paths in Services - Adjust paths in Scripts - Adjust paths in Workflows - Adjust paths in GeekTool - Make/replace SymLinks - LaunchBar - LittleSnitch - 1Password - Dropbox - Drag and drop applications from Backup - Migrate Preferences from Backup - Geektool's Preferences - Transmission's Preferences and Applications Support Files - Dictionaries from `/Library/Dictionaries` - Install the rest of the applications manually Was aus der Liste entfernt wurde sind Hyperlinks zu den jeweiligen Ordnern oder Dateien auf seiner Festplatte – ist halt übersichtlicher so. Als nächstes installiert Patrick LittleSnitch, damit Marco und Manfred von Objective Development stolz auf ihn sind. EXKURS Des weiteren wird der Schummler-Tag eingeleitet. Denn trotz dem Fakt, dass wir seit Folge 7 Picks eingeführt haben, bleibt einem ja nur ein Pick pro Show. Patrick nutzt das aus schamlos aus, um die Maschine vom Kurs abzubringen. Er stellt kurz eine weitere Alternative zu Illustrator vor: Affinity Designer ist seit kurzem in der öffentlichen Beta und will ähnlich wie Sketch die Leute aus der Adobe-Hölle befreien. Wir drücken die Daumen. Zurück auf Kurs. Die Queen Sven ist not amused und fordert Stringenz. Ne, als Vielflieger ist er sowas natürlich gewöhnt und lässt Nachsicht und spendiert eine Runde Tomatensaft auf’s Haus. Also… nvALT kommt bei Patrick als nächstes auf die Kiste. Da man hier schlank und schnell seine Notizen ablegen kann und finden kann. Sein Setup sieht so aus und wird per Dropbox auf alle Devices geschickt. Mit Hazel, dem Putz- und Räumungsdienst von Noodlesoft holt sich Sven die Roboter auf den Mac. Andreas gibt geradewegs weitere seiner Lieblingsregeln für den Donwloadordner zum besten: runtergeladene HTML und .exe löschen runtergeladene Videos umbenennen DMG - Lizenzbestimmungen Dialog unterbinden Da er ein netter Kerl ist, gibt es auch einen Download-Link für euch. Und wo wir schon gerade bei der Roboterfraktion gelandet sind, da darf Keyboard Maestro natürlich nicht fehlen. Hier ein Auszug aus Andreas seinem Nutzverhalten-Katalog: Die zeitlerische Markdown Library. Als Networker vor dem Herren werden jeden Montag die Xing Events automatisch geparst und für in Frage kommende Termine wird eine URL generiert. Effizienz und Selbstanalyse Skripts für die eigenen Prioritäten, Mindnote Map, etc. Zudem werden im Büro alle 10 Minuten Facebook, Google+, Twitter und Minecraft Tabs im Browser geschlossen. Wir stellen noch einmal klar: Keyboard Maestro kann mehr als der Name suggeriert. Es können z.B. zeit- und datumsabhängige Trigger genutzt werden, um Skripte anzustoßen, per GUI-Programmierung kann man eine Reihe an virtuellen Mausklicks erstellen (um ein Programm ohne AppleScript-Unterstützung zu skripten) und vieles mehr. Die App ist bei Patrick ebenfalls essentiell und spielt ganz oben in seiner Top 10 mit. Sein Steckenpferd und Haupteinsatz zweck ist die Palettenfunktion von Keyboard Maestro. Das sind Listen mit selbst hinterlegten Kurzbefehlen, Skripten oder was auch immer. So muss er sich nicht wie bei TextExpander ‘zig Snippets merken, sondern zündet in jedem Programm meist den selben Shortcut, welcher ihm dann eine Programmspezifische Auswahl an Befehlen zur Verfügung stellt. Er muss dann nur noch aus einer Liste auswählen, was er den nun eigentlich für eine Rakete in die Luft jagen will. Hier ein Auszug aus seinen Lieblingspaletten: Markdown Maestro Guide – genauso wie Andreas seine Library, nur ganz anders (und nicht so up to date). Notizen erzeugen aus dem Stegreif, dem Browser, Clipboard oder einer Textselektion: Notes Palette Filing Macro Stichwort nvALT: A Bulletproof ‘Open nvALT Notes with’ Method (für die Leute mit mehr als einem Text Editor). Noch mehr Helfer(lein) Sven möchte Caffeine nicht missen, denn die App verhindert, dass ihm der Bildschirms bei Präsentationen einschläft (oder wann auch immer der Bildschirm nicht schnarchen gehen soll). Die Augen massiert und entspannt bekommt Patrick von F.lux. Die App tönt euren Bildschirm in einen ganz gemächlich in einen wärmeren Farbton, sobald die Sonne untergeht. Macht ihr Überstunden, so wird’s noch wärmer. Beim Thema Farbschema fällt Patrick auch gerade ein, wie toll Solarized eigentlich ist und das man auch mal testet wie hässlich Path Finder aussehen kann. Ein Mann und sein Text Editor. Bei Andreas ist das Vi aka Vim bei Patrick FoldingText (Markdown schreiben ohne Markdown zu sehen) und Sublime Text (für alles andere). Als nächsten auf der Tagesordnung bei einem neuen Mac steht bei Patrick “das Dock schöner machen”. Ganz im Geiste Tine Wittlers werden hier die Grundregeln abgearbeitet: Nur die Apps ins Dock, die eh immer offen sind. Das Dock gehört UNTEN hin und automatisch versteckt. Anders geht’s nicht. Ist alles an Ort und stelle, darf man “Spacer” erstellen per Terminal.app: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}' Will man die Space auf der Dokumentenseite des Docks (da wo der Mülleimer ist) haben: defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}' Um das Dock gefüllt schneller aufspringen zu lassen, kann man das Delay abstellen. Öffnet wieder das Terminal und kopiert die Folgende Zeile rein, danach Return drücken: defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock Zum wiederherstellen des ursprünglichen Verhaltens: defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay && killall Dock Noch mehr Tipps für Tüftler gibt’s hier. Wer viele Fenster offen hat und Fechner heißt nutzt Moom von Many Tricks. Wer Fechner oder Welker heißt und viele Apps in der Menüleiste hat braucht Bartender. Dann ist endlich Ordnung in der Menüleiste. Patrick legt auch die Hand für die App ins Feuer. Eine weitere Empfehlung kommt von Patrick. Choosy bewirbt sich als “schlauerer Standardbrowser für OS X”. Es findet von alleine heraus, welchen Browser ihr gerade am meisten nutzte, kann aber auch eine Liste an Webadressen von alleine immer in eurem Zweitbrowser öffnen, z.B. wenn ihr Online-Banking betreibt ist das ein zusätzlicher Sicherheitsfaktor. Klappt wunderbar in Kombination mit einem Launcher. Mindmaps in schön und ohne Käse. Mindnode hat laut Andreas nix überflüssiges und man bekommt damit ohne Extrafunktionen schnell was auf die Beine gestellt. Die anderen beiden nicken zustimmend. VLC gehört bei Videoprofi Andreas ebenfalls auf den Mac. Es schluckt alle Formate die ihr auf es werft und kann auch ohne zu Mucken konvertieren. Unsere Picks Auch hier wird wieder geschummelt. Andreas hat es Patrick gleich getan und mogelt unverschämt noch einen zweiten Pick rein… bis auf das er hier das Unschuldslamm mimt. ☝ Andreas: iStat Menus - alle System-Statistiken in der Menüleiste, DIY TRX - Fitnessgeräte selbst schrauben. Patrick: DropShare - Droplr/CloudApp auf dem eigenen Server. Sven: Timeful — Aufgaben im Kalendar planen; Selbstlernend mit Gewohnheiten-Unterstützung In Spenderlaune? Wir haben Flattr und PayPal am Start und würden uns freuen.

Ethan Schoonover joins David and Katie to talk about his Solarized project, and his graphic design, photography and home automation workflows.

Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.

Wynn sat down with Ethan Schoonover, creator of Solarized to talk about the science and design behind the wildly popular color scheme as well as his love for Arch Linux.

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