December (with no) computing
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December at  work was a  bit busy. A much  more travelling than  I have
been used to and  also other things. So I had  little time for anything
else.  Even my  cycling (I  normally commute  daily on  a bicycle)  was
somewhat limited. Also I had some flu in November and as a result I was
cautious when it came to outdoor and social activities.

So, the MNT  Pocket Reform have worked rather wall  during train trips.
The  WiFi performance  greatly improved  with the  new card  (an AsiaRF
something). The only  remaining issue is the  non-existing suspend mode
(so  far) and  relatively short  battery life  (~4 hours).  The suspend
issue might be resolved in the future which will also help with battery
life (I hope...).

I have  been using  my home desktop  (the Raptor  Engineering Blackbird
with the POWER9 CPU) mostly as  an "ordinary PC": the Firefox (Japanese
video courses,  general WWW  browsing, e-mail,  social networks  and so
on), the DeadBeef  (music), soem Kana and  Kanji learning applications,
the  Geeqie  for  sorting  of  photographs  but  there  was  almost  no
programming at all. I did wrote a few  lines of C code this year but it
seems the my main "programming activity"  was when I made (very simple)
models for  3D printing in the  OpenSCAD. But I have  written no single
line of code (of any kind) during the December.

I haven't used  my older machines at all during  the December. The only
exception is today  when I'm trying to make a  season greetings picture
(The Gimp 1.2.x) and writing this post  in the Vim. In last ~20 years I
have been making  such image in the  Gimp on the SGI  (initially in the
Gimp 1.x on the SGI Indy, I think) so I even didn't thought about doing
it in other  way. Well, this wotk  is just the decision  what picture I
should use (GQView) and adding a text like "PF2025" to the picture...

I also have had too little to  browse the Gopherverse so I'm trying now
to look what is new.

That's all for the moment...


Written on the SGI O2.