Welcome to decuser’s blog
Topics on this blog include computing, retro-computing, operating systems, math, and whatever other technical subjects I happen to be exploring that I find interesting enough to take and share notes about.
Posts
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Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye without a Desktop
Sheesh, live and learn. I didn’t pay any attention to system requirements in the prior note Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye. I just glibly provisioned using a small portion of my available resources. In this note, I’ve corrected this oversight. The system requirements are much, much more modest than what I originally provisioned. There is no need for the overkill.
This note is about building a bootable Sculpt OS 22.10 image using a Debian 11 “Bullseye” Guest OS running in VirtualBox without a desktop. If you were to include the desktop, expect that the system requirements would increase, but not by lot. I expect it would work with these same provisions, but would work better with more CPUs and RAM, as well as with a bigger allocation of hard disk space.
Bottom line - The image can be built comfortably, in a reasonable amount of time (call it 15 minutes to download the toolchain, and source code, and do the build), on a system with 512 MB RAM, 1 CPU, 12 GB HDD, but it’s faster with more resources provisioned, where CPU seems to be the biggest factor - more is better letting us use parallel threads in make.
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Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye
This note is about building a bootable Sculpt OS 22.10 image using a Debian 11 “Bullseye” Guest OS running in VirtualBox. This is useful as a starting point for building a custom image. My Thinkpad T430 runs Sculpt just fine, but wifi doesn’t work, so I would like to add the needed firmware. This is work in that direction.
The note also applies, leaving out the VirtualBox specifics, to building Sculpt OS 22.10 on a Debian instance running on metal (confirmed working 12/28).
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Warren Toomey Awarded 2022 USENIX Flame
Warren Toomey, the founder and maintainer of all things related to The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) https://www.tuhs.org/ has been awarded the 2022 USENIX Lifetime Achievment Award (“The Flame”).
Without TUHS, it would hardly even be possible to enjoy retro unix explorations. This is a well earned accolade by an unassuming and very hard working individual.
Congratulations, Warren!
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dircmp.py - a plan to improve and extend
dircmp.py
A plan to improve and extend
This note pertains to dircmp.py a program that I wrote to give me information about two directories for the purpose of deciding what to keep and what to remove and to learn about python. The note is a draft note and as such it’s not very refined and it may lack in many ways, but I thought it might be interesting to put it out there and let anyone see it. Email me if you have comments or suggestions.
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Site Update for Thursday, December 8, 2022
The Blog is completely migrated! It’s good to be over that google blog experience. Too little control. It’s like I stopped having to take lyft and got my own car with a free parking pass.
We are live! Of course, if you see any issues, just shoot me an email. Yeeha!
Oh, and I added search :).
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Creating a github pages jekyll minima themed site with pagination
A note about creating a github pages jekyll minima themed blog site and about adding pagination after the fact. This note captures what I learned when I created this blog.
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Site Update for December 3, 2022
Added pagination. Whew, took a bit of work, but seems more manageable on the whole. I’ll add a post about it :).
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Site Update for December 2, 2022
Everything up through June 29, 2022 is live. If you see any problems, shoot me an email. In the meantime, I’m working on getting the rest of 2022 posted and then I will take care of the explorations tabs. I also have some ideas for new content that I would like to get posted before I take a break.
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Site Update for December 1, 2022
Everything up through 2018 is live. If you see any problems, shoot me an email. In the meantime, I’m working on 2020-present. I’m excited. Markdown is so straightforward. Once I get the existing content up and running, I’ll be able to add new posts quickly and easily. Can’t wait!
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Under Construction Notice
This blog is currently under construction. As part of the migration discussed in Welcome Post (Nov 29, 2022), I am moving content from various places into the blog. The Exploration links will eventually refer to content that I bring in or add, but for now they just link to this notice. I am working from oldest to newest and just finished 2002-2015. I’ll be moving the rest little by little to backfill. Please be patient!