• keeping in touch

    From Benny Pedersen@2:230/0 to Maurice Kinal on Tue Oct 20 16:55:14 2020
    Hello Maurice!

    19 Oct 2020 01:24, Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt:

    Quite a change from my previous life.
    That is good to hear.

    +1

    I've been watching a lot of SNL reruns during the pandemic
    At the moment I don't have a TV but can stream off the internet if needed. I seriously doubt I am missing much.

    life is good without the fake news from usa, lets hope corona stop it

    i have now 6 months free amazon prime, dont know if i keep it :)


    Regards Benny

    ... too late to die young :)

    --- Msged/LNX 6.1.2 (Linux/5.9.1-gentoo-x86_64 (x86_64))
    * Origin: I will always keep a PC running CPM 3.0 (2:230/0)
  • From Maurice Kinal@2:280/464.113 to Benny Pedersen on Tue Oct 20 17:46:14 2020
    Hallo Benny!

    life is good without the fake news from usa, lets hope corona
    stop it

    Last time I checked, news is still news, fake or otherwise. BTW which is the fake news and how do you tell the difference?

    i have now 6 months free amazon prime, dont know if i keep it :)

    If you're talking about the streaming part then I wouldn't bother with it. Same with netflix (I hear they may be going out of business) and the rest. A total waste of money and bandwidth. I used to like streaming audio from CBC Radio One but they switched their service and now I can no longer use commandline mplayer|mpg123 so that is no longer doable. Oh well.

    Anyhow streaming can and does work in linux although in most cases it isn't worth it. The more reliable methods are falling by the wayside.

    Speaking of graphics, I saw six penguins on bootup on the new box yesterday -> Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GHz

    -={ ye olde cut n' paste of 'cat /proc/version' starts }=-
    Linux version 5.9.1 (root@bitskii) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35.1) #1 SMP Tue Oct 20 03:54:54 UTC 2020
    -={ ye olde cut n' paste of 'cat /proc/version' ends }=-

    I haven't tested mplayer on the console yet but plan to sometime later today. If that works then I plan to create an nvme root/boot of it.

    Starting to take shape ... again.

    Het leven is goed,
    Maurice

    ... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi.
    --- GNU bash, version 5.0.18(1)-release (x86_64-silvermont-linux-gnu)
    * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113)