They say a common housefly only lives for about twenty-eight days. I’m telling you right now, the sheer volume of ambient cocaine dust in the Sausalito Record Plant in 1976 mutated my DNA, because I survived all eleven months of the Rumours sessions.

This article is written on public demand. Fleetwood Mac in general and Stevie Nicks in particular have been perennial favorites. Recently, I shared a video of them performing a live version of their song Rhiannon at Studio Instrument Rentals in 1976 with a few friends, and all of them struggled to understand the lyrics towards the end part where Stevie goes berserk and the performance hits its crescendo. Some of them are smart people, and they tried searching various song lyrics provider websites, yet they were unable to find the lyrics for this particular version. So they requested that I share the lyrics with them, and I obliged, as friends do. One of them suggested that it’d be a good idea if I could put it on my blog, as it’d be accessible to countless others searching for this particular version’s lyrics. So, here you go, folks. I’ve done my best to transcribe the lyrics as accurately as I possibly can, but if you spot any errors, please contact me, and I’ll be more than happy to correct them.

After a recent update on Calculate Linux (Gentoo-based), KMail stopped launching and running it from the terminal showed the following error as the root cause of failure:

Postgres db cluster upgrade failed, Akonadi will fail to start. Sorry.

The update process had bumped up PostgreSQL from version 16 to 17, and that’s where the problem lied. Fixing this with all the KMail data intact turned out to be a relatively simpler task.

ALT Linux uses PulseAudio as its default sound server but, switching to PipeWire is not that difficult. ALT Linux English wiki doesn’t have any documentation on this subject as of writing this article, so I decided to post this little how-to with the hope that someone will find it useful.

A short while back, I upgraded the minimal installation of Xubuntu Jammy Jellyfish to Noble Numbat, and then I installed Qt5 Configuration Utility (qt5ct) and upon launching, it presented me with the following error,

the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME environment variable is not set correctly (current value:gtk2, required value:qt5ct)

So, I added the following line into the /etc/environment file,

export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct

Next I performed the logout/login routine and again launched the qt5ct and again the same error persisted to my frustration.