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<article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201311dd-with-progress.html" class="u-url">dd(8) with progress</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201311dd-with-progress.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2013-11-29T17:11:00-06:00" title="2013-11-29">2013-11-29</time></a></p>
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<p>I needed to write an iso image to a USB key, and the typical way is
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with just dd(8), but I wanted a progress bar. A quick google later,
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and I get:</p>
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<pre><code>pv -tpreb isoname | sudo dd of=/dev/sdd bs=1024</code></pre>
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<p>Which will write the iso image to the USB stick sdd, and give me a
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progress bar, tell me how fast it is writing, and give me an eta when
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finished. Perfect.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201311tale-of-install.html" class="u-url">Tale of Installs</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201311tale-of-install.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2013-11-21T17:11:00-06:00" title="2013-11-21">2013-11-21</time></a></p>
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<p>So, I am starting a new personal project at the house, and I need a new server. As I was wanting to learn more about the *BSD, I started looking around at things like <a href="http://www.freebsd.org">FreeBSD</a>, <a href="http://www.netBSD.org">NetBSD</a>, or <a href="http://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>.</p>
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<p>Since there was a security part, I started with <strong>OpenBSD</strong>. One of
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the things I noticed quickly while doing my research is that while
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there is a lot of documentation, they do not really seem to care about
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making it easy for new folks to join the project, nor are the trying
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to support new-fangled hardware, like <a href="http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/bootable-OpenBSD-USB-stick-from-windows-td223393.html">bootable USB
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drives</a>.
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This strikes me odd, as FreeBSD has <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html">instructions (see
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2.3.5)</a>.</p>
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<p>Since I want to use pf, I am going to stay with OpenBSD for now.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201311clickable-urls-links-in-rxvt.html" class="u-url">Clickable URL links in rxvt</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201311clickable-urls-links-in-rxvt.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2013-11-03T17:11:00-06:00" title="2013-11-03">2013-11-03</time></a></p>
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<p>So, I use <a href="http://rxvt.sf.net">rxvt</a> as my daily interface to my computers. I also use <a href="http://www.mutt.org">mutt</a> for my email reading pleasure. Sometimes, I get URLs in email and I want to read them in a browser. If I was using a GUI based mail reader, I would just click the URL to open it. Well, there is an easy way to set up rxvt to do that!</p>
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<p>Using the fine <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org">Arch Linux wiki</a> entry for <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/rxvt-unicode#Clickable_URLs">rxvt unicode</a>, the solution is quite easy. In the file <strong>~/.Xdefaults</strong>, add:</p>
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<pre><code>URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
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URxvt.url-launcher: /usr/bin/firefox
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URxvt.matcher.button: 1
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<p>And either do a <strong>xrdb --merge ~/.Xdefaults</strong> or log out/log in. And start a new rxvt, and you are good to go.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201311rebooting-ducklandorg.html" class="u-url">Rebooting duckland.org</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201311rebooting-ducklandorg.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2013-10-31T18:10:00-06:00" title="2013-10-31">2013-10-31</time></a></p>
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<p>Today is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Day">All Saints Day</a>, so it seems natural to let duckland.org start new again.</p>
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<p>As is popular in Hollywood, I have decided to reboot this web site after 6 1/2 years. I have not decided about the old content.</p>
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<p>I am planning on using this as a technical notebook. <em>Shrug</em> I hope to make it worth while.</p>
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</article><article class="h-entry post-text"><header><h1 class="p-name entry-title"><a href="posts/201112an-update-to-window-managers.html" class="u-url">An Update to 'Window Managers?'</a></h1>
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<p class="byline author vcard"><span class="byline-name fn">Don Harper</span></p>
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<p class="dateline"><a href="posts/201112an-update-to-window-managers.html" rel="bookmark"><time class="published dt-published" datetime="2011-12-22T17:12:00-06:00" title="2011-12-22">2011-12-22</time></a></p>
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<h1>An Update to 'Window Managers?'</h1>
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<p>Way back, I wrote a quick blurb on <a href="http://www.duckland.org/index.php/2006/07/31/window-managers/">Windows Managers</a> for running under X.</p>
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<p>Well, a while back I switched to <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu</a> for my OS of choice. As you may know, the fine folks at Ubuntu switch the default window manager to something called <strong>Unity</strong>, which cause a stir. I tried it for a while, but decided that it was too heavy, and to mouse-centric.</p>
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<p>So, what to do? Well, I went back to my old standby <a href="http://wmfs.info">wmfs</a>, Window Manager From Scratch. This is a modern WM with systray support, full Ximirama and Xrandr support, tiles, and is mainly driven from the keyboard. Life is good.</p>
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<p>To install (same steps as for Fedora, RHEL, or Ubuntu), download the source, and install the needed development libraries for: <strong>X11, Xft, freetype, Xinerama, Xrandr, and Imlib2</strong>. I used the native packages from the OS. Then, simple do a</p>
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<p>(you do build software as a normal user, right?)</p>
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<p>This will install all the needed bits and configs into the correct place. Under Ubuntu 11.10, there was an entry from the login screen to let me chose wmfs.</p>
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<p>Config is handled in <em>$HOME/.config/wmfs/wmfsrc</em> which you can copy from <em>/etc/xdg/wmfs/wmfsrc</em>.</p>
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<p>The <a href="http://wmfs.info">wmfs website</a> has very nice documentation as well as likes to some people’s configs with screen shots.</p>
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<p>It runs very fast, and very lean:</p>
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<pre><code> Private + Shared = RAM used Program
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3.9 MiB + 310.0 KiB = 4.2 MiB wmfs
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<p>Check it out, I am sure you will like what you see.</p>
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