Kathy and I drove around Corpus Christi for a couple of hours today looking for a Wifi “hot spot”. We finally found one at the Bioya Coffee shop next to Hooters off of 37. There’s even a drumset mounted on the wall for some reason. They should take it down so I could take care of two of my needs simultaneously.

You can listen to last night’s gravity test practice here.

John Dvorak has an excellent article online talking about blogging. From my own experience, I’ve learned that putting stuff about your life on the interweb isn’t of much interest to people outside of your immediate family and friends.

He’s back online! After a long hiatus, I managed to add the hoyhoybot service back to init.d.

For all you 1337 h4×0rz out there. Old lunker came across some links to some phatty case badges here. Steakum found this link to some crazy guy’s case mod that’s really quite swanky.

Some of my Dutch friends turned me on to setting my screenrc hardstatus line to:

hardstatus alwayslastline "%{= wk}%-Lw%{= rk}%50>%n%f*%t%{-}%+Lw%<"

I’m having a helluva time getting Zephyr to work on Fedora Core. I got it to compile and to recieve message, but I can’t seem to get it to send at all. Anyone out there having this problem?

One thing I really like about Linux/Lunix is that there is umpteen plus one billion ways of doing any one thing. Someone on IRC asked: “Can someone tell me how much space (ball park) would be needed for a GCC install?” The first answer that came back was:

for i in $(rpm -qa |grep gcc | cut -d- -f2);do /bin/rpm -qi gcc-$i |/bin/grep

That just gave all of the sizes in a column and didn’t add them all up. I thought, surely there’s some way of piping the results into bc. Then I came up with:

rpm -qa|grep gcc|xargs rpm -qi|grep "Size"|awk '{print $3" +"}'|xargs|sed 's/+$//'|bc

I got to thinking, that’s a lot of commands to do that. Surely there’s an easier way. I then had the following epiphany.

expr `rpm -qa|grep gcc|xargs rpm -q --qf "%{SIZE} + 0"`

That took the number of commands down from 9 to 4. I thought about it some more, and came up with the following:

expr `rpm -qa *gcc* --qf "%{SIZE} + 0"`

So, you can do it in as little as two commands!

Someone on the channel that this ought to be added to rpm as an s option to qa, e.g. rpm -qsa *gcc* would return the total space used by all of the gcc rpms. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I updated my friends page for the first time since like 1803.

Here’s some links to the fedora core isos: