PlayShell 0.2-WP15 was released today.

Homepage: http://playshell.sourceforge.net/
SF.net summary page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/playshell/
Release files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/play...hell/0.2-WP15/
Online repository: http://sourceforge.net/p/playshell/code/

Acquired the otg cable from Frys. Under ten dollars. Had to go through 4 people and a manager to finally get it. Real bummer. Feel like I was fried. Like the place but some of the people need to learn the words I do not know, but I will get someone who can. Cable ended up beingin the first department to begin with. Learn your merchandise Fry clerks. Went back today and got a backup cable in case they disappear again.

Had to make some ethernet cables. Always try to keep plenty of extra...

Finally have an otg cable for the Nexus 7. Time for some productivity.

Using the Nexus 7 as a monitor for the Raspberry Pi.

Want to take a linux distribution for the handicapped and see if I can install it without a monitor.

If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, what do you call doing the same thing over and over and GETTING a different result? A computer operating system! Linux, Windows, ..., whatever.

In my previous blog, I explained how even if you are only installing a couple of files on the system, there were advantages to creating a Slackware package to do so. The example I gave was the files I needed to disable nouveau and use nvidia instead.

This policy paid dividends when I upgraded to Slackware 14.0. The nvidia drivers wouldn't work and I faced the task of upgrading them for 14.0 (which meant remembering stuff I had done 18 months ago). Before doing that, it seemed prudent...