Time seems to fly by faster than light and I can only watch
helplessly. The March sumo basho kicked off today.
The last weekends were not at all productive, I've simply done
nothing. Work is not the best as I am only allowed to spend around
half of my working hours on them - the clients do not pay for more
currently. So I've done a lot of online trainings, prepared some
know-how sharing and a lot of documentation.
At last I updated OpenBSD to 7.4 on the old laptop and switched to
using jwm as window manager. Even xfce seemed to be too heavy for this
crappy i386 machine.
jwm is really cool, I like the xml config file, real easy to
customize, great man page. Even now I am in jwm and type this while
logged into SDF-EU via mosh. I installed the simple terminal from
suckless and surf as browser.
I tried wireless again because it was unbearably slow the last time I
experimented with it. The man page also mentions that some devices
are incorrectly calibrated and pracically unusable. However something
happened in the meantime as I could connect to wifi and the speed was
totally okay with the bwi driver.
Not bad, but it is not really reliable, I suspect that it has some
issues with me using the laptop a bit further off from the router. So
it drops the connection from time to time and at one startup it
greeted me with a lot of timeout messages. But after booting this
morning everything was all right again.
When I was updating OpenBSD I saw that it comes with a new version of
Mono so I installed that and experimented with Windows Forms a bit.
Unfortunately there is no Monodevelop, but I wrote a csproj file from
scratch and used xbuild to build the project. xbuild complained that
it is deprecated and I should use msbuild instead. But there was
nothing from pkg_info on msbuild, so I looked it up on openports.pl
and it is broken on i386...
At work we have a .NET Framework 4.8 console app that I would like to
containerize somehow. I have access to windows docker runners on
GitLab, but cannot use windows containers locally. Maybe I'll give
Mono a try. It would be cool if it compiled, but I suspect it won't be
so easy.
