Computer Log

Remove FlatPak from Linux Mint as I did here. Went from less than a GB free to almost 7GB free!

Playing with the Hugo Static Site Generator.

Well I’m a genious. Just as VLC has announced a big interface design, for it’s upcoming 4.0 version, I decide to figure out the meanings of the icons for looping. I’ve used VLC for years, it began in 2001, so maybe 2 decades, And never took the time to figure out the differences. They could have come up with more meaningful icons, IMHO. The middle button is the loop icon.

Loop Off

Loop All

Loop One

If you look at them the only difference between Loop Off and Loop All is the shade. I guess that spec in the middle of Loop One, is a 1. Going to the trouble of documenting this, it doesn’t seem that hard. And yet through the years I just kept mindlessly clicking the button until it did what I wanted. How about just a simple ASCII character? O,A,1…(O)ff, (A)ll and (1).

Decided to try the Atom IDE for Python a week or two ago, working in a Python environment. And Guess what? It works great! Unlike Microsoft VS Code, Atom works the way I think it should work. I tried VS Code in an environment, and it doesn’t work. OK wait, I probably need to start VS Code in the environment, that makes sense. Yes it makes sense, but it doesn’t work, and the environment doesn’t appear in the select Python version selections at the bottom of the source. I’m sure I can find an answer to make it work, however what I’m trying makes sense to me. And it works that way in Atom…I didn’t need to look anything up! I started Atom in the Python environment and it used that environment.

I don’t remember documenting this so I’m doing it now!
These steps may seem quirky, probably a better way do this, but they work for me right now!

Export WordPress site then convert to Markdown

• Use WordPress Tools/export to export to a local XML directory
• Convert the WordPress XML to something useful
  • The node.js tool I found actually found useful is…
  • Blogger to Markdown [Which I think I got here https://github.com/palaniraja/blog2md]

Note: There are other tools I tried but this is the one that actually worked for me!

Here is their description "Convert Blogger & WordPress backup blog posts to hugo compatible markdown documents"

from a terminal in the utility directory run the node.js program like so [remember to use quotes around file names with spaces]
    node index.js w WordPressExportedFile.xml markdownOutputDirectory
    node index.js w "/home/bill/Mystuff/Data/WordPress [Log]/Export/computerlog.WordPress.2021-02-14.xml" markdownOutputDirectory

This will create individual markdown files, for each WordPress blog post.
Wordpress images will be imbedded, otherwise a link will be shown.

Anyway I thought I’d look at Opera again. I usually have it installed. But don’t tend to use it much. Anyway I thought I’d see how Opera handles multiple tabs. I found it does what Chrome does, just keep making the tabs smaller.

Another reason to dislike Google Chrome. I have a bad habit of keeping multiple tabs open, I always tell myself…I’ll get back to that article. It’s a bad habit…but one that I can break, just a little willpower is all it takes. Sorry that line from a song popped into my head! Anywho it seems that Chrome attempts to have as many tabs as possible on the page, resulting in the tabs becoming smaller and smaller, until you can’t even tell what they are. Firefox doesn’t shrink the tabs, you just scroll left/right to see them. Like I said it’s a bad habit on my part. I think I’ve had over a thousand in Firefox before. But even 50 in Chrome is unusable.

It’s been a while. And I forgot exact steps. So I had to review by looking at my SQLite notes. In addition to the data (from my, mySQL database on my remote web server) I like to keep a local SQLite version on my computer. I have some useful views that allow me to easily query the database. Especially with SQLite’s builtin date routines. So here are the key steps.

• Export the data on the remote server, using phpMyAdmin, as a CSV using “|” as a seperator, use .txt for extention on save
• From SQLite:
  • define the table if necessary
  • .separator |
  • .import Birthday.txt Birthday [.import much faster than .read]

Started computer, but monitor didn’t come on, restarted but same thing. Opened computer case, crossed fingers, removed and re-seated video card. Came up OK. However while looking at screen which has a lot of white, I noticed it getting dimmer, actually the white was fluxuating between white and blueish. This makes me wonder if it’s the moniter? Up till now I haven’t had any video problems.