v6scripts-20120106

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The latest official release of v6scripts is available via:

What’s new in this release? The following describes the major points.

Changes: This is a spit and polish release. It adds symlink and not directory checks to the alarm.osh script for better diagnostics. It adds another symlink check to the oshdir.osh script for better diagnostics as well. It also adds a -v verbose option to the oshlatest.osh script.

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osh-20120102 (Twelve == Magic)

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The latest official release of osh (The Twelve == Magic Edition) is available via:

What’s new in this release? The following describes the major points.

Changes: This release changes the osh exit status for 'alias' and 'unalias' so that they exit w/ a false (1) status when there are no aliases to print, set, or unset. Otherwise, they exit w/ a true (0) status when there is no error. It adds 'version' as an osh special built-in command, replacing the previous 'version' alias found in “examples/dot.oshrc”. It changes the _XOPEN_SOURCE definition from 600 to 600L in “mkconfig”. It also adds DEBUG_ALIAS, DEBUG_GLOB, and DEBUG_PROC definitions (undefined by default) to “err.h” for printf debugging.

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new in the v6shell repo

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So, I dug out the ancient archives where my ancient osh tarballs live this week. The result? I added the releases back to osh-060124 as new tagged branches in the v6shell repo. The releases from osh-051120 to osh-030730 are new orphaned branches with no tags.

Notice that releases are available as tarballs via http://v6shell.org/src (latest release) and http://v6shell.org/src/old (older releases) for all releases back to osh-030730.

In the end, this makes all releases from the beginning to now available via the v6shell repo and as tarballs.

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Diabetes – ( I | You | We ) Can Do This

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This is my raw, unedited video for The “You Can Do This” Project . Thanks to Kim at Texting My Pancreas and at @txtngmypancreas on Twitter.

Pardon my unkempt appearance, but it’s Friday! Enjoy! Please try not to be too critical, as I did this on the fly:

Diabetes – ( I | You | We ) Can Do This (2011) (video)

Thanks and remember that we can all do this D-Thing together :)

References:

  • FDR, 1st inaugural address : “… the only thing we have to fear is fear itself …”
  • Frank Herbert, Dune (Copyright © 1965 Herbert Properties LLC.) : Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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Loving My Diabetes Doesn’t Always Work!

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Warning: The following may contain bad words :)

This is especially true when it bites me in the ass because of a brain fart that causes a “major hypo”! More than that though, it’s especially true when such a hypo happens in the middle of the night when I might otherwise be asleep. As we all know, this can be a super dangerous pickle to be in (nothing against otherwise happy pickles of course).

I hope that those of you who know me get the sense that I love my diabetes because of the blessing in disguise thing. At least, D-Love is the sense that I always try to (and truly have to) project! If I didn’t feel this way today, I would simply have to give up. But I don’t give up because I can’t give up. I mean, nobody else is gonna love my diabetes for me are they!?.

And even if they did… I figure that D-Love won’t help me (or anyone else) unless it comes from within. The simple act of D-Love generates a real sense of D-Power for me (and hopefully for others)! I know one thing for sure. Since my diabetes and I are inextricably linked because we live in the same body, I figure I have to love my diabetes so that the two of us can more effectively work as a team in our shared D-Quest!

By the way, I recently had one of those previously mentioned “major hypos” in the middle of the night last week. Needless to say, waking up in a pool of your own drool and pee and whatnot is never fun, but I’ll tell ya… I was rather shocked to hear what came out of my mouth in my post-hypo trying-to-recover-my-brain mode. I screamed out, “I cannot do this!” more than once. I also felt a twinge of not loving my diabetes but of almost hating it instead. :(

Ouch, that was a personal shocker for me here because I don’t often remember hearing myself say those words. But when diabetes bites me in the ass, I gotta get back up and keep on trying the best I can even though I know my personal diabetes management is far from perfect. Good thing I don’t strive for D-Perfection though…

Cause I imagine that might make me a sad D-Pilgrim. Who wants to be sad? Not me. So, here’s to the beautiful D-Imperfection (imperfect BGs you know) that I can live with :)

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osh-20111129 (latest release)

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The latest official release of osh is available via:

What’s new in this release? The following describes the major points.

Changes: This release adds useful build system info from 'uname -srm' to the built binaries. It updates the included example osh dot files for the sake of simplicity. It also adds handy new 'v' and 'version' aliases.

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