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Why linux</a></li> +<li><a href="#distros">2. Distros</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#distro-guides">2.1. Guides</a></li> +<li><a href="#distro-list">2.2. Cool distros</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#gui">3. GUI apps</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#claws">3.1. Claws mail</a></li> +<li><a href="#emacs">3.2. Emacs</a></li> +<li><a href="#spacefm">3.3. SpaceFM</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#encrypted-partitions-in-spacefm">3.3.1. Encrypted partitions in spaceFM</a></li> +<li><a href="#sftp">3.3.2. sftp</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#mpv">3.4. mpv</a></li> +<li><a href="#liferea">3.5. Liferea</a></li> +<li><a href="#epdfviewer">3.6. ePDFViewer</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#browsers">4. Web browsers</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#icecat">4.1. Icecat</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#installing">4.1.1. Installing</a></li> +<li><a href="#hardening">4.1.2. Hardening</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#xul">4.2. Palemoon and Basilisk</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#hardening-1">4.2.1. Hardening</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#ungoogled">4.3. Ungoogled chromium</a></li> +<li><a href="#librewolf">4.4. librewolf</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#commandline">5. Command line</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#alacritty">5.1. Alacritty</a></li> +<li><a href="#zsh">5.2. zsh</a></li> +<li><a href="#vim">5.3. vim</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#extras">6. Extras</a> +<ul> +<li><a href="#lite-xl">6.1. lite-xl</a></li> +<li><a href="#vlc">6.2. vlc</a></li> +<li><a href="#evolution">6.3. Evolution</a></li> +</ul> +</li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-why-linux" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="why-linux"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> Why linux</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-why-linux"> +<p> +I have always liked being able to customize, mod, and poke inside +different things. Computers are machines for us to play around with and +use how we see fit yet the only thing the big tech companies want to do +it lock everything up and it disgusts me. Fuck google, fuck microsoft, +fuck apple, and fuck all the other evil tech companies!!! Its time for +the open source revolution and seize them all and open source the entire +world!!! Without linux or any other unix life would be much much worse. +Linux is my safe place from all the shit in the world. +</p> + + +<div id="org0526eb4" class="figure"> +<p><img src="images/windows_kills_kittens.jpg" alt="windows_kills_kittens.jpg" /> +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-distros" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="distros"><span class="section-number-2">2.</span> Distros</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-distros"> +<p> +I will distro hop a bit though for the most part I like to stay with the +same distro and just change DE's or WM's. For the longest time I just +switched to a different fedora spin every so often. Now I use arch +because I got tired of fedora and couldnt find a distro I liked so I +switched to arch to make it feel the way I want. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-distro-guides" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="distro-guides"><span class="section-number-3">2.1.</span> Guides</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-distro-guides"> +<ul class="org-ul"> +<li><a href="distro-guides/arch.xhtml">Arch (my daily driver)</a></li> +<li><a href="distro-guides/xfce.xhtml">Xfce DE</a></li> +<li><a href="distro-guides/fedora.xhtml">Fedora xfce (my old daily driver)</a></li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-distro-list" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="distro-list"><span class="section-number-3">2.2.</span> Cool distros</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-distro-list"> +<p> +<i>Not including the guides</i> +</p> + +<ul class="org-ul"> +<li><a href="https://antixlinux.com">AntiX</a></li> +<li><a href="https://mxlinux.org">MXLinux</a></li> +<li><a href="https://salixos.org">SalixOS</a></li> +<li><a href="https://www.adelielinux.org">Adelie</a></li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-gui" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="gui"><span class="section-number-2">3.</span> GUI apps</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-gui"> +<p> +A lot of linux users dont like GUI apps. I think they are great +<a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/design.xhtml">when they are done right</a>. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-claws" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="claws"><span class="section-number-3">3.1.</span> Claws mail</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-claws"> +<p> +I have used thunderbird in the past though like I said before +<a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml">mozilla is evil as fuck</a>. +Through the power of actually following the unix philosophy and +not being full of javascript bullshit claws is about the safest email +client out there. Gone are the days of just clicking a email being +enough to fuck you over. Anyways you likely noticed that claws just +displays everything in plain text. I like using the dillo plugin for a +nicer view, and guess what? Still no shitty javascript that can get you +fucked! +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-emacs" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="emacs"><span class="section-number-3">3.2.</span> Emacs</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-emacs"> +<p> +<b>Don't use emacs. Its stupido.</b><br /> +<br /> +That is and will always be true but lately as of writing this I been bit +by the emacs bug. Using emacs is so bad and so wrong but feels so good +to use. I defeated rsi by doing hand exercises for nearly a year and a +half as of writing this. I had to learn the hard way being a guitarist +and emacs user while taking CS classes and writing code all the time +wasnt a good idea. Now I play bass to but it balances out because I +switched over to IT and became too lazy to write code most of the time. +I lost my lite weight hand exercise tools and instead of buying new ones +I just started using the heavy ones for hours at a time until I had <b>the +grip strength to crush a human skull</b>. Now my rsi is cured <i>as long as I +keep up the exercises</i>.<br /> +<br /> +I dont use doom emacs, spaceacs… or any of that bullshit. Just good old +gnu emacs with a simple config and a hand full of plugins.<br /> +Some of my favorite are: +</p> + +<ul class="org-ul"> +<li>Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely changing it by +much.</li> +<li>Company with eglot: a easy way to add good auto-complete and lsp +support. It doesnt bloat the system up too much and it adds much +faster and better auto-complete then what any standard ide has and it +doesnt get in the way.</li> +<li>nyan-mode: this plugin will change your life. Emacs isnt even usable +without it. This plugin is the biggest reason I use emacs. Take that +vim users!</li> +</ul> + +<p> +<b>Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.</b> +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-spacefm" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="spacefm"><span class="section-number-3">3.3.</span> SpaceFM</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-spacefm"> +<p> +For the longest time I just used thunar because its decent and default +in xfce though I decided to give spaceFM a try as of writing this. I +might got annoyed of it in a week and ditch it or end up really liking +it. These kinds of things tend to go either way for me. I will either +fucking hate it or wonder how I ever lived without it.<br /> +Update: After using it for a little bit I really dig it and never want +to go back. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-encrypted-partitions-in-spacefm" class="outline-4"> +<h4 id="encrypted-partitions-in-spacefm"><span class="section-number-4">3.3.1.</span> Encrypted partitions in spaceFM</h4> +<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-encrypted-partitions-in-spacefm"> +<p> +SpaceFM doesnt support encrypted partitions by default but lucky for us +its very customizable. To get encrypted disks working I use udisks2 and +udiskie. +</p> + +<ul class="org-ul"> +<li>Install udisks2 and udiskie.</li> +<li>Go to xfce session and startup than add the command <code>udiskie -s</code> as a +autostarted app. The -s option makes udiskie show a tray icon and hide +it when there arent any disks. -t will show the tray all the time and +by default udiskie will not show a tray.</li> +<li>In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and add a new +handler: <img src="images/udiskie_in_spacefm.jpg" alt="udiskie_in_spacefm.jpg" /><br /> +Whitelist: <code>crypto_LUKS</code><br /> +Mount: <code>udiskie-mount %v</code><br /> +Unmount: <code>udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT %v)</code></li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-sftp" class="outline-4"> +<h4 id="sftp"><span class="section-number-4">3.3.2.</span> sftp</h4> +<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-sftp"> +<p> +Spacefm uses sshfs for sftp support. Once you install it you will be +ready to rock. Though for my use case I need symlink support. sshfs +needs to have the option <code>-o follow_symlinks</code> To support symlinks. +To add the option go to Devices->Settings->Protocol Handlers->ssh and +change the mount option to: +</p> +<table bgcolor="white" border="1"><tr><td> +<code> +#!/bin/bash<br /> +<br /> +[[ -n "$fm_url_user" ]] && fm_url_user="${fm_url_user}@"<br /> +[[ -z "$fm_url_port" ]] && fm_url_port=22<br /> +echo ">>> sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a"<br /> +echo<br /> +# Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal close<br /> +sshtmp="$(mktemp --tmpdir spacefm-ssh-output-XXXXXXXX.tmp)" || exit 1<br /> +nohup sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a &> "$sshtmp"<br /> +err=$?<br /> +[[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"<br /> +[[ $err -eq 0 ]] # set error status<br /> +<br /> +# Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and<br /> +# uncheck Run In Terminal<br /> +# # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task. sshfs disconnects when the<br /> +# # terminal is closed<br /> +# spacefm -s run-task cmd --terminal "echo 'Connecting to $fm_url'; echo; sshfs -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo; echo '[ Finished ] Press Enter to close'; else echo; echo 'Press Enter to close (closing this window may unmount sshfs)'; fi; read" & sleep 1 +</code> +</td></tr></table> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-mpv" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="mpv"><span class="section-number-3">3.4.</span> mpv</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-mpv"> +<p> +I switched to mpv because vlc was acting weird with audio sometimes when +watching anime and nothing in this world is worse then something getting +in the way of anime time! Just like lite-xl and neovim mpv uses lua for +its config files and is really simple by default. It also can play +youtube videos or other online streams just by giving it a url. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-liferea" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="liferea"><span class="section-number-3">3.5.</span> Liferea</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-liferea"> +<p> +Feed readers are one of those things I use on and off. A lot like mail +clients feed readers tend to be very bloated. Liferea is my favorite but +it has always had issues with nvidia drivers until I found out a +trick.<br /> +<br /> +If liferea has issues add this to your /etc/environment and reboot<br /> +<code>WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1</code><br /> +<br /> +Some cool tricks: +</p> + +<ul class="org-ul"> +<li>Get <a href="https://github.com/shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension">this +plugin</a> to find feeds easier.</li> +<li>You can turn youtube channels into rss feeds with +<code>https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}</code><br /> +This can be done for all your subscriptions with +<a href="scripts/youtube_subs_export.py">this script</a></li> +<li>You can drag and drop youtube urls from your feed reader into mpv so +you can keep up with your subscriptions without even touching +youtube's website.</li> +</ul> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-epdfviewer" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="epdfviewer"><span class="section-number-3">3.6.</span> ePDFViewer</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-epdfviewer"> +<p> +I wanted a pdf viewer that was light weight and simple. Being a xfce +user I wanted something that isnt tied to another DE and doesnt uses a +hell ton of dependencies. +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-browsers" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="browsers"><span class="section-number-2">4.</span> Web browsers</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-browsers"> +<p> +Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. These are +some of the better options out there.<br /> +<br /> +For some resources on browsers check out +<a href="https://spyware.neocities.org/articles">spyware watch dog</a> and +<a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml">dig deeper</a>.<br /> +<br /> +For addons stay away from the mozilla or google bullshit and instead use +something like <a href="https://gnuzilla.gnu.org">the gnuzilla thingy</a>. You +can also find addons on <a href="https://mybrowseraddon.com">mybrowseraddon</a> +than manually install them or something along those lines.<br /> +<br /> +For a dark mode addon <b>stay away from darkreader</b>. Dont know if its +spyware or not but when the browser starts up it makes a bunch of +requests which is something a dark mode plugin shouldnt do. Instead use +something like +<a href="https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=786990">dark-mode</a>. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-icecat" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="icecat"><span class="section-number-3">4.1.</span> Icecat</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-icecat"> +<p> +I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because +<a href="https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml">mozilla is evil as +fuck</a>. If you don't know librewolf it its the ungoogled-chromium of +firefox. Than I switched from librewolf to icecat.<br /> +<br /> +<del>The builtin plugins are decent. Librejs and its other contend blocking +plugins are way more annoying than something like umatrix but I am +giving them a fair chance knowing that umatrix might not have much of a +future even if its still quite functional still. I still like to install +ublock even with everything that comes builtin.</del><br /> +So I got annoyed of librejs and other builtin plugins in icecat. Now I +just disable them because umatrix and ublock can do way more, except +jshelter: It is a api spoofer which is different from the others which +are contend blockers. Its useful for when you have to use javascript +heavy websites but still want to prevent alot of information from being +leaked. I set ublock to disable javascript by default and I set jshelter +to strict mode by default.<br /> +<br /> +Fun little trick: If video playback/youtube frame breaks on a website +just throw it into mpv to stream it from there. Sometimes to find the +media you can hit ctrl+i to pull up page info and use the media section +or in some cases you might have to dig around in the inspector. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-installing" class="outline-4"> +<h4 id="installing"><span class="section-number-4">4.1.1.</span> Installing</h4> +<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-installing"> +<p> +You can find some newer builds <a href="https://icecatbrowser.org">here</a>. The +offical version can be found +<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla">here</a>. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-hardening" class="outline-4"> +<h4 id="hardening"><span class="section-number-4">4.1.2.</span> Hardening</h4> +<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-hardening"> +<p> +The magic of icecat is it makes zero requests to mozilla but its not too +hardened so you might wanta use a user.js. Check out +<a href="https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js">pyllyukko user.js</a>. +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-xul" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="xul"><span class="section-number-3">4.2.</span> Palemoon and Basilisk</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-xul"> +<p> +<a href="https://www.palemoon.org">Palemoon</a> is a old firefox fork that uses a +different rendering engine so it can keep up with newer webstandards +while stilling keeping the old interface and support older plugins. +<a href="https://www.basilisk-browser.org">Basilisk</a> use to be developed by +moonchild and was designed to be kind of like palemoon but based off a +bit newer version of firefox. The basilisk team broke off and is now +seprate from moonchild but still keeps in close contact with them.<br /> +<br /> +What version you choose is really up to you and what interface you like +more. Both of them are going to struggle to use javascript heavy +websites but its ok its I prefer disabling javascript whenever possible +and using umatrix to only let in what the site needs to function. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-hardening-1" class="outline-4"> +<h4 id="hardening-1"><span class="section-number-4">4.2.1.</span> Hardening</h4> +<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-hardening-1"> +<p> +Even though they are about as good as browsers get these days the +developers are still stupidos so you should +<a href="https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/palemoon">follow this guide</a>. +Its also best you disable webrtc (only basilisk even supports webrtc out +of the two) and webgl along with other hardening because even though +they are based off older versions of firefox they still support the +modern features that make it easier for sites to fucking fingerprint +you. Basilisk is the only one that supports webrtc out of the two.<br /> +<br /> +To help hardened get yourself +<a href="https://git.nixnet.services/Narsil/palemoon_user.js">a palemoon +user.js</a>. It helps you stand out less by hiding the fact you are using +a weird old ass browser. Btw, for whatever fucking reason this user.js +seems to brick github issue pages so just keep that in mind. Though if +anything this just is another reason why real git sites like gitea and +codeberg are better.<br /> +<br /> +You can timezone spoof by setting <code>TZ=UTC</code> before launching: +</p> +<table bgcolor="white" border="1"><tr><td> +<code> +sudo -s<br /> +rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon<br /> +echo "#! /usr/bin/sh\nTZ=UTC /usr/lib/palemoon/palemoon \$@" > /usr/bin/palemoon<br /> +chmod +x /usr/bin/palemoon +</code> +</td></tr></table> +<p> +Basilisk users can come up with their own hack instead of having their +hands held and gently walked through +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-ungoogled" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="ungoogled"><span class="section-number-3">4.3.</span> Ungoogled chromium</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-ungoogled"> +<p> +Ungoogled chromium is what the name says, chromium without the google. I +still prefer to avoid anything chromim but if you really want to use a +chromium based browser without all the spyware shit you arent going to +get any better than this. It hella beats brave <b>brave is fucking +terrible</b>. There is a addon that lets you install addons from the chrome +store and update them without having to sign into google but I still +think the best option is just to manually install the addons to +completely avoid google.<br /> +<br /> +Ungoogled chromium isnt hardened at all by default. Its designed to be a +drop in replacement for chrome that is user friendly and doesnt break +anything. We dont do that here, for heaven fucking shake at least harden +it a little and to do that you can use +<a href="https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md">these +flags</a>.<br /> +<br /> +With manifest v2 on the way out the future of chromium based browsers is +fucked. Mozilla is also doing shitty things so we are just in general +fucked. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-librewolf" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="librewolf"><span class="section-number-3">4.4.</span> librewolf</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-librewolf"> +<p> +Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened browser +setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla which kind of sucks. +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-commandline" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="commandline"><span class="section-number-2">5.</span> Command line</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-commandline"> +<p> +Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because <b>fuck +you</b>.<br /> +<br /> +For a cool command line I use nerd fonts. My favorite is the hack nerd +font which can be installed with: +</p> +<table bgcolor="white" border="1"><tr><td> +<code> +wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.3.0/Hack.zip<br /> +unzip Hack.zip -d Hack<br /> +sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/ +</code> +</td></tr></table> +<p> +More nerd fonts can be found <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com">here</a>. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-alacritty" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="alacritty"><span class="section-number-3">5.1.</span> Alacritty</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-alacritty"> +<p> +I only started using it very recently because I been using kitty for a +long time. I switched to alacritty because ssh in kitty is fucked up and +I found out that alacritty now has a option for toml files for the +config. The yml files was one of the biggest things keeping me away from +alacritty. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-zsh" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="zsh"><span class="section-number-3">5.2.</span> zsh</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-zsh"> +<p> +zsh is pretty cool though I been playing with fish a bit and been +thinking of switching to that. zsh has lots of cool things like vi keys +(even though I use emacs) and is somewhat compatable with bash to. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-vim" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="vim"><span class="section-number-3">5.3.</span> vim</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-vim"> +<p> +For a long time I used neovim. I started using neovim becaues I wanted +vim to act more like a ide and have fancy shit. For most things I ended +up using <del>lite-xl</del> emacs more because well… emacs just make my autism +happy. Neovim ended up just being used for editing configs, quickly +throwing together scripts, crazy vim wizard edits… so I decided to +just ditch neovim (you can find my old config +<a href="https://gitea.com/nathansmithsmith/nvim_config">here</a>) and instead go +with a simple vimrc with only a few plugins.<br /> +<br /> +<b><i>How dare someone use both emacs and vim!</i></b> Shut your fucking piehole +stupido! +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-extras" class="outline-2"> +<h2 id="extras"><span class="section-number-2">6.</span> Extras</h2> +<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-extras"> +<p> +These are programs I at one point used, dont use much… that I wanted +to add. +</p> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-lite-xl" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="lite-xl"><span class="section-number-3">6.1.</span> lite-xl</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-lite-xl"> +<p> +I started using lite-xl because I wanted a simple little easy to config +graphical text editor. lite-xl is just that. I no longer have a need for +it as I get into emacs again as of writing this but still a great little +editor.<br /> +<br /> +On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you need to +set the <code>LITE_SCALE</code> environment variable. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-vlc" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="vlc"><span class="section-number-3">6.2.</span> vlc</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-vlc"> +<p> +Yes, mpv is better. Yes, vlc sometimes has issues. But vlc is still +better than the default media player on most systems and has its fair +share of useful features. Even with mpv I still like to have vlc +installed just in case mpv breaks when I dont have internet and I like +its file converting features. The mobile version of vlc kicks ass. +</p> +</div> +</div> +<div id="outline-container-evolution" class="outline-3"> +<h3 id="evolution"><span class="section-number-3">6.3.</span> Evolution</h3> +<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-evolution"> +<p> +Evolution is one of the better mail clients out there. If for whatever +reason you need to use gmail or some other locked down shitty service +evolution has you covered. By default it uses the gnome style window +decorators but unlike most gnome apps it lets you use your desktop/WM +decorators instead. Its not as bad as most mail clients (looking at you +thunderbird) and it lets you <i>at least</i> hide most of that shit out of +the way. +</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> +</td></tr></table> +<div id="postamble" class="status"> +<p class="creator"><a href="https://shittyweb.org"><img src="images/nsw_banner.png" alt="NSW" /></a></p> +</div> +</center> +</body> +</html> |