If you’re running in text mode, or from a console login, to install software using the package manager use:
sudo pkg install [packagename]
MS Flight Simulator 2024: Around the World update 4: Albuquerque to LA following Route 66
Continuing from Update 3, still heading west from Albuquerque the landscape started to gain some interesting features, the first hills I’ve seen for few hours!
Following I-40 where it parallels Route 66:
Approaching Kingman, AZ:
Vehicle Proving Grounds, and Yucca, AZ:
Landing at Edwards AFB to refuel:
Following I-215 into San Bernadino:
Over LA:
MacOS zsh terminal themes and prompt customisation
A while back I stumbled across basic zsh prompt customisation to show the current git branch I’m working on. Some point later I also added oh-my-zsh but kept the default theme as it worked fine for my needs and was unobtrusive.
At some point recently I had a couple of terminal customisation videos come up in my recommended feed, and watching one out of curiousity I was amazed at just how far you can go, especially with displaying all sorts of info as badges in your prompt.
Just so I don’t forget how I got here, I installed powerlevel10k using brew:
brew install powerlevel10k
echo "source $(brew --prefix)/share/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme" >>~/.zshrc
and then used the interactive customisation menus which run if you restart zsh with:
exec zsh
Whatever happened to WinFS from Longhorn?
20 years back I was excited by the prospect of a version of Windows that replaced the DOS based file system with a database based system called WinFS, although disappointed that it was forever delayed. I continued to be excited by the prospect that it may ship as an add-on for XP and Vista. Another year passed and that idea was also canned.
This post on The Register caught my eye this week, discussing some history behind Longhorn, and an overview by Dave Plummer over on his YouTube channel. Fascinating to hear some of the behind the scenes story, but sad it never saw light of day.