Rubenerd

The Overnightscape Central is a fun weekly podcast hosted by the illustrious PQ Ribber. Hosts and listeners of The Overnightscape Underground participate in a topic each week, and you’re welcome to join.

02:31:40 – An amazing variety of monologues on this week’s topic and a time anomaly, too!! Neil (of intoyourhead radio), Clara, Frank, Chad, and Ruben are here for your entertainium and enlightenmentation!! PQ Ribber is the host!!

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01:01:45 – Drivers who think we can see them, scary storm clouds of doom, swords are superior to guns, truck drivers on one–way streets, building and wrecking kerbs, silly workplace “wellness” articles, family moves, the Australian Housing Bubble, the DeLonghi Magnifica coffee machine, Age of Empires II on Steam, fond game memories, Bali and Lombok, philosophy about travel and boredom, and the last Australian to hear of Tame Impala!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released November 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

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I’ve previously used RVM to install Ruby and gems, but this week I decided to try rbenv.

You can use Homebrew on the Mac, but I decided to install the standard way so I could also install ruby-build as a plugin the standard way. Standard:

% git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git \
    ~/.rbenv
% git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git \
    ~/.rbenv/plugins/

Next, we need a version of Ruby. First check out what’s available:

% rbenv install -l
==> Available versions:
==>   1.8.6-p383
       [..]
==>   2.2.3

And then install:

% rbenv install 2.2.3

Now we’re cooking with gas. Check the version of Ruby, and we’re set.

% ruby -v
==> ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [universal.x86_64-darwin14]

Hey, wait a minute; that’s the system Ruby. Why didn’t I get the newer version? After I got over the internal dialogue, I realised I’d forgotten to tell rbenv which version to use.

% rbenv local 2.2.3
==> [silence is golden]

Now we’re cooking with… induction? Check the version of Ruby again, and we’re set.

% ruby -v
==> ruby 2.2.3p173 (2015-08-18 revision 51636) [x86_64-darwin14]

The Overnightscape Central is a fun weekly podcast hosted by the illustrious PQ Ribber. Hosts and listeners of The Overnightscape Underground participate in a topic each week, and you’re welcome to join.

02:43:14 – Ruben, Frank, Three Nines, Jimbo, Doc Sleaze, and Clara combine forces to examine this genre in pop culture!! An awesome collaboratorium hosted by PQ Ribber!!

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The paradox of choice episode.

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01:00:36 – Car park music, mixing 80s synths with jazz, Spandau Ballet, working at what you love, obsessively researching, KVMs, The Paradox of Choice, shipping to Australia sucks, the Ideapad 100s, Sonnet IDE cards for ancient PowerMac G3s, overcast days, sunburn, going to the Sepang GP in Malaysia, only having enthusiasm for motorsport, hiking, Adelaide, power board boxes, OfficeWorks, cable boxes, shredders, early 1990s childhood TV nostalgia (TMNT, Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, Superted), purchasing and returning an evil monitor stand, and why British power plugs are superior, damn it!

Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

Released November 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.

It’s been a few years since the last When Truncation Attacks post. Have this one from IT News.

PayPal’s instuctions on cancelling subscriptions are wrong. I’d know, I spent the morning trying to figrure it out. As of the date this post was published, here’s how you actually do it:

1. Log into PayPal and click Summary.

2. Under Completed, click the transation for the recurring payment you want to cancel

3. Click “Manage XYZ payments”

4. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click “Cancel Subscription”

5. Rinse and repeat.

PayPal will then send you an email confirmation.

The Overnightscape Central is a fun weekly podcast hosted by the illustrious PQ Ribber. Hosts and listeners of The Overnightscape Underground participate in a topic each week, and you’re welcome to join.

03:00:11 – Seven ONSUG stalwarts at the top of their games, present their slant on Time and Aging in this excellent episode!! Clara!! Three Nines!! Jimbo!! Ruben!! Frank!! Chad!! Doc Sleaze!! Don’t miss this one!! PQ Ribber is your host!

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| KVM | Input | Video | Switching | Notes | location: sydney

| ATEN
MasterView CS84A | 2x PS/2 | VGA | Hotkey, buttons | | | BELKIN
SOHO F1DS104LAU | USB hub | VGA | Hotkey, button | Expensive | | ServerLink
SL-471-D | USB hub | DVI-D | Button | No VGA passthru | | TRENDNet
TK-400K | 2x PS/2 | VGA | Hotkey, button | |

This post was supposed to be a draft markdown table test, but it published anyway.

Now that it’s here, I may as well explain. This is a table of KVMs and their capabilities. I’m looking into them for my home workstation setup, and need one with VGA and either 2 USB ports or 2 PS/2 ports.

More to come in a proper post.

Jason Perlow’s article for ZDNet is the latest defence I’ve read of passenger diesel. It starts with the following quote, then follows on about how he has a diesel car, why he likes it, and why he’s frustrated at VW for gambling their reputation:

VW defrauded its customers by attempting to sell diesel as environmentally friendly under the EPA’s ridiculous emissions rules. But that doesn’t mean diesel is bad, or that EV’s are the immediate future of transportation.

Let’s tackle each point.

• VW sold their diesels as clean. Unsurprisingly, they weren’t the only ones.

• If he thinks the American EPA has “ridiculous” emissions rules, he’d be terrified of Euro6. Regardless, you don’t get to break laws you don’t like.

• Yes, diesel is bad, as I’ve been saying for a decade now. Their particulate matter cause respitory problems and worse, and much of the smog in large European cities are caused the NOx output from these engines.

• Elon Musk certainly has a vested interest in saying electrics (sorry, “EVs”) are the future. For cities, I rather think public transport investment is. But that’s far harder.

As Jason puts it:

Yes, you self-righteous jerks, I get it. My precious Volkswagen car is a filthy TDI. You know what else is producing noxious fumes? Your ass.

It’s time to put passenger diesel out of its misery.