Moving slowly, but….

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  • October 15, 2016 at 4:32 am #55

    Josh

    2nd half of today had iffy results. Was kind of tired & working on odd tasks. I did manage to setup printing from Linux to my wirelessly networked Brother printer. This printer has a PCL5 emulation & a postscript emulation. The latter is easier for Linux & what is being used at the moment. Performance is slow, but I only need it for the odd page here or there, so not a big issue. I may try to set it up as some HP PCL5 printer at some point & see if that is an improvement.

    Tried to get my outside lamp post light working with some dielectric grease & a little sandpaper brushing of the socket. It was hard to reach though & my efforts didn’t produce a change – the light turned out immediately afterwards, & then failed to turn on for the timer switch at dusk. At least I reset the timer switch – the one I have in the wall at the moment is junky & loses its settings every time I have a power outage. Will give the light another shot some other day.

    My current combo of USB keyboard/Dell box/KDE is having trouble on wakeup after suspend. Sometimes the keyboard isn’t responding & when a screen locker is in place, I can’t do anything. There are other programs with KDE’s screen locker – an online search reveals many similar complains, & I experienced it with recent versions of sddm on my laptop too. So I thought at first it was just KDE screen locker & tried to go for a software upgrade. That turned out to be a mistake as it simultaneously installed a lot of bleeding edge plasma components which failed to save my previous visual config in some respects. And it didn’t help the keyboard problem which I’m now thinking is partly about USB wakeup. A powered USB hub might be one way to go, but in the meantime I disabled KDE locking & installed xscreensaver which has its own lock functionality. Amazing to see that JWZ – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski – is still actively developing that old & venerable utility from another era. In the process of being forced to reboot, I did manage to get booting to Linux working (without requiring manual BIOS intervention). Turns out that Dell has installed it’s own boot manager in ROM & it was able to read the note that Linux’s grub utility left for it & set that up as a boot option. Seems promising from the POV of not expecting any problems with reinstalling Win10 on its (now shrunken & blank) partition at some point in the near future.

    Wasted too much time after that fussing with the momentarily broken plasma stylization features. Perhaps another reboot or a future upgrade will set them straight.

    And I wrote my Todo list of useful things to stay focused on during the time I have for computer work over the new few days.

  • January 15, 2017 at 10:50 am #815

    Josh

    I hope my investigation of the blog community will be helpful in a variety of different ways over time: gaining info, finding some small audience over time, making “no mic” too technically difficult to sustain, understanding the way other people think about relevant issues, trying to see where the lines of CIA media control are actually drawn – so far I have come across no participation in any form by mainstream media employees in the forums I’ve looked at. Do current gen employees need a waver to participate? Can they answer questions off the record? I haven’t seen any anonymous comments claiming to be media. I’ve seen people that went full Indy like David Talbot and maybe a few others. I realize that I need to do a lot of other things. My key struggle is still getting through EMF/flux – I’m glad that I’ve become more informed about the enormous difficulty of raising any political truth about the Security State in the US. Looking at past efforts puts things into perspective. Congressmen and Senators did not have that power in practice. Trying new approaches is key.

  • January 15, 2017 at 6:35 pm #816

    Josh

    I keep trying to do better. Not sure what the story with Feedly/Twitter RSS is. Premium support would get the question answered – costs $5-6/month.

  • January 17, 2017 at 9:07 pm #832

    Josh

    Horton’s Rolls Royce.

  • January 20, 2017 at 10:12 pm #855

    Josh

    I expect to be switching back and forth between a bunch of different things. The toughest challenge is getting enough time for concentrated work rather than shielding on any given day. I expect it to keep being tough…roughly forever…but I’m hoping I will keep going good anyway, and not get my brain fried in the “magnetic micro-concussion sun”.

    • January 22, 2017 at 1:38 am #862

      Josh

      I did get kind of fried today, sitting in the same place doing computer things. Riley’s big complaining about the annoyance of my going around the room shielding was one reason for that. I made the first draft of a JFK outline – it will change, I’m sure. That doesn’t sound like much, but there are large quantities facts to organize. Books and films that try to include most of them come across like a long list of misc. things. I want to avoid that. It’s a judgment call what to emphasize apart and what to lump together.

      The fall of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall coming down weren’t marked by any decisive battles. The forces holding them up had sufficiently dissipated. I can hope to do something like that with info, while not getting any real feedback about whether I am making any progress. I see other sources editorializing about things I am saying, and I know that can’t mainly be your direct influence. So it seems that indirectly, we are having some kind of effect, through some unknown channels.

  • February 21, 2017 at 5:33 am #1148

    Josh

    Yesterday, early this AM was annoying because I am still spending most of time on #1 putting up ugly plastic. And #2 was replacing my old coffee maker (feel like I made the correct choice with that, and glad I found it locally). Even so, I see signs we are making some progress. Find allies…get them working on a story which is mostly true and somehow leads to the real truth…get them talking to and supporting each other. One thing I like about “pedophilia-gate” topic is that Herman/Chomsky propaganda model doesn’t explain it without spook. They claim to explain Vietnam, and don’t believe in JFK. Pedophile-gate? That’s not communism or terrorism….

  • March 10, 2017 at 12:51 am #1433

    Josh

    Got it. Got u. Keeping u. Safe harbor.

    Sorry for being too slow by half. Going to lie down, clear my head, and think sweet thoughts…about being with u.

  • March 10, 2017 at 12:54 am #1434

    Josh

    I’m following a list of over 100. Some don’t write very often, so the list of active ones is shorter. Among those, the percentage moving in a good direction is high – significantly so. Not sure what can be extrapolated from that long term. Maybe we have to try for a while to find out. It feels like getting more silent, far-flung allies is helping/helpful. That was a good plan idea to guess that is possible.

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