Installing Mercury can be an intimidating process. Here are the steps I followed to get Mercury lang up and running.
Download the latest ROTD. This tutorial uses a ROTD dated 2018-04-30, you should replace this date throughout.
Uncompress the source archive
$ tar -xzf mercury-srcdist-rotd-2018-04-30.tar.gz
Configure the installation to …
As always, I am writing these entries in order to solidify and formulate my opinions. I may end up reversing opinions of what I write. I hope that by writing this out I may have a better understanding then the general mutterings which pass through my brain on occasion. Let …
more ...Aboard a bus departing the Cancun airport I notice a small stepped-pyramid adjacent to the on-ramp of the high-way. It stands the height of a single story, too close to the roadway to have been constructed afterwards, but oddly prominent. Is this pyramid a lesser, forgotten Tulum or Chitzen Itza …
more ...This may not be the 'correct' way of doing something, but you can place your xfce4 color scheme in the following folder:
/usr/share/xfce4/terminal/colorschemes
Look at the existing files for inspiration and add a [Scheme] and Name= line
to the top.
I successfully renamed terminalrc.jellybeans to …
Here is a list of things to keep in mind for the next time you use an ATM.
In July 2016, State Street Bank reached a $382 million settlement with DOJ for rigging foreign currency exchanges.
In June 2014, the French bank BNP Paribas was ordered to pay $8.9 …
This summer I deployed star charts in hopes of gaining skills and acquiring better habits. The star charts started on the 13th of July and ended whenever I realized they were no longer working. In this post I will try to identify why.
This qualitative review of my progress will …
more ...Finding the location of photos and paintings of real places around the world.
more ...On July 7 UNESCO announced this year's additions to the list of World Heritage sites. Among the newly added locations we find the mountain range of Qinghai Hoh Xil
Qinghai is a large province in western China.
Hoh Xil means "Blue Ridge" in Mongolian. (A friend tells …
more ...I discovered a new subreddit today. Take a look at r/AccidentalWesAnderson. Wes Anderson directed the award winning Grand Budapest Hotel as well as Moonrise Kingdom. Both of these films are among my favorites.
So what makes a Wes Anderson film?