Limit Pacman Speed (not the game...)
For a long time I have tried getting my computer to download updates at a slower speed so I could use the internet while it was updating. I failed many times because I kept trying to get it to work with PowerPill which used aria2c to download. Aria2c apparently only has a download limit for torrents, so it wouldn't obey what I specified when I was updating my computer. I finally figured out that if I put this in the /etc/pacman.conf file, it will limit the speed:

Now my family won't complain about why the internet is slow, and I can use it without waiting for hours to display the Google homepage (maybe that is a bit exaggerated...).

Open Office Spell Checking
After I updated my computer, I noticed that it talked about Open Office in the /var/log/pacman.log file with a link to the Arch wiki. I looked at the wiki, and I noticed something I had never noticed before. For a long time (reminds you of the first part of this blog post?) I have endured using Open Office without spell checking since I couldn't figure out how to enable it. It worked fine on Ubuntu, but when I switched to Arch Linux I couldn't figure out how to do it. Then I saw the wiki. It told me how... so, if you don't have spell checking enabled in open office, look at the Arch wiki and you'll find out how.

Flickr
I have looked at HDR photos on Flickr from people like "Stuck in Customs" (Trey) and other folks (I don't remember who). I finally got around to looking into whether or not I wanted to put anything on there. I went to sign in, and I forgot my username/password for my account. Oh well, I didn't like my login name much anyway. I created another account, my profile, etc. I looked around Flickr. Oh man... they limit you to 100 MB per month of transfer? I have "Unlimited" (not really) of transfer on Siteground, why would I limit myself to 100? Then I go and upload an image. It says it failed, but when I look at my page, the photo is there. I would kinda like their upload script to work. So, maybe Flickr is fine for some people; however, it is not good for me.

I do not like the way I currently upload photos to my website though:

1. get images and copy to /home/floft/images/NameOfAlbum/
2. run /home/floft/images/shrinkify.sh NameOfAlbum and copy output to /home/floft/images/photos.xml
3. run convert -resize 150 -quality 85 NameOfAlbum/PhotoIWant.jpg thumbnails/NameOfAlbum.jpg
4. edit photos.xml adding names, descriptions, etc.
5. copy contents of photos.xml to the admin page on my local website
6. wait for my website to sync all the files/databases sometime late at night

It is nice method, eh? Sorta, kinda. I would like this method:

1. get images and put them in their own directory (e.g. ~/Desktop/cow/)
2. run script: /scripts/photos ~/Desktop/cow/
3. wait for my website to sync all the files/databases sometime late at night

Don't you think that would be nice? I run one script for a certain directory, and it does all the work. I need to write the script. My life would be so much easier.

Overbending -- Harmonica
In school during PE class one day, our teacher changed what we were doing to be related to the Olympics. We are having our own olympics modified to all be possible in the gym. We are in teams and are from a certain country. We get extra credit if we can play the national anthem from that country. Thus, I looked up the anthem for my country (Germany) and found out I could easily play it on the harmonica. I played the song and found out that I could not easily play it on the harmonica. Uh oh. I couldn't hit one note. This is why I got interested in trying to overbend notes.

I have a C diatomic harmonica, and only a C diatomic harmonica. There are people out there who only need this harmonica and can play any note. I am not one of those people. I tried for quite some time trying to overbend, and for a while I thought I was getting it, but then I realized I was making the not drop, thus I was blowbending (which I hadn't done before, so it is good that I learned about that). I still can't seem to overbend. Someday, hopefully, I will be able to...