Just awakened from a wonderful dream, like an intricate adventure story where Indiana Jones might appear at any moment. I was somewhere in Central America, and I had just accidentally found an ancient relic, a golden crown with a beautiful band of rubies near the base. Before that scene, as I write […]
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How to properly reset the VBoxClient clipboard (copy-paste from guest to host) on Devuan Linux and probably Debian too
There is an elusive bug in the VirtualBox client software, which on rare occasions causes the clipboard to stop working. I've seen the issue with both Windows and Linux guests, and I've developed workarounds by writing tiny scripts that reset the client software. However, my standard Devuan client […]
Yearning for silence and talking to God about it
Today is my birthday and I am yearning for silence of a rare kind. I've been yearning for silence for years, as may be clear to one reading many of my preceding weblog articles here over the past five years or so. Today, as the sun rises and I am contemplating my life in the annual "it's your […]