dicianno.org/blog » gentoo http://dicianno.org/blog notes about computers and lifestyle Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:09:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Prefix Portage v. Aquamacs v. aspell http://dicianno.org/blog/2008/11/12/prefix-portage-v-aquamacs-v-aspell/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2008/11/12/prefix-portage-v-aquamacs-v-aspell/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:49:14 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/blog/?p=72 I come from a heavy Gentoo background in GNU/Linux land, so on OS X, I prefer Prefix Portage. YMMV, but I think it’s a great environment. I mainly use it to install the few extra UNIX utilities that don’t ship with OS X.

Wanting to get spell checking working, I read the Emacs Wiki, and thought all I had to do was install aspell. I even added my prefix portage paths to my Preferences.el file:

  1. (setenv "PATH" (concat "/Library/Gentoo/bin" path-separator (getenv "PATH")))
  2. (setenv "PATH" (concat "/Library/Gentoo/sbin" path-separator (getenv "PATH")))
  3. (setenv "PATH" (concat "/Library/Gentoo/usr/bin" path-separator (getenv "PATH")))
  4. (setenv "PATH" (concat "/Library/Gentoo/usr/sbin" path-separator (getenv "PATH")))

While the above did change my path, it didn’t make spellcheck work. The following code did:

  1. ;; spelling
  2.  (eval-after-load "ispell"
  3.   (progn
  4.     (setq ispell-dictionary "en"
  5.           ispell-silently-savep t)))
  6. (setq-default ispell-program-name "/Library/Gentoo/usr/bin/aspell")

The peculiar thing is that I had to specify the full path to aspell, and not just “aspell” with the above PATH additions. Very strange; I’m no Lisp programmer (yet!), so any suggestions would be appreciated.

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I wrote a quick alias erlman that only searches these erlang man page sections.

~/.bashrc

  1.  
  2. alias erlman="man -S 1erl:3erl:4erl:6erl"
  3.  
]]> http://dicianno.org/blog/2007/11/27/erlang-2/feed/ 0 SSL support for Apache in my prefix-portage overlay http://dicianno.org/blog/2007/06/21/ssl-support-for-apache-in-my-prefix-portage-overlay/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2007/06/21/ssl-support-for-apache-in-my-prefix-portage-overlay/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:53:21 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/blog/2007/06/21/untitled/ I’m working on getting our Rails-based app, at work (OBT – obtech.net), working with SSL.

Since we all use OSX as our main dev boxen here, as well as Gentoo Linux machines, I long ago started hacking and helping on the Gentoo-Alt Prefix Portage project, so that I could help create one software repository we all use here. I found it very time consuming, before hand, to help other devs install and configure pieces of software every time they needed something — they’re not n00bs or anything, just UNIX CLI stuff isn’t their usual cup of tea.

I’m in the process of (re-)becoming an official Gentoo developer, focusing on Prefix Portage this time (last time was GNUstep). Until that goes through, I have a prefix-portage overlay, which is accessible through layman, or you can use SVN to check it out at http://www.dicianno.org/svn/PrefixPortage/branches/overlay-fafhrd/.

So, to summarize the point of this post, shortly, I got SSL support working in the Apache ebuild that was already in my overlay, at least on OSX. So, get to it!

]]> http://dicianno.org/blog/2007/06/21/ssl-support-for-apache-in-my-prefix-portage-overlay/feed/ 0 MacBook Pro: run a little cooler, save batter power with ati-config http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/06/24/macbook-pro-run-a-little-cooler-save-batter-power-with-ati-config/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/06/24/macbook-pro-run-a-little-cooler-save-batter-power-with-ati-config/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2006 17:01:17 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/2006/06/24/macbook-pro-run-a-little-cooler-save-batter-power-with-ati-config/ So you probably discovered that your MacBook Pro runs about as hot as the corona of the Sun.

If you’re at my blog here, you probably run some GNU / Linux distro. Just a guess.

If you’re running a GNU / Linux distro, there’s a good chance you installed the binary ATI drivers and associated tools, even though it makes your soul bleed.

So, if you have ati-config you can do the following:

# ati-config –list-powerstates
core/mem [flags]
——————
1: 128/135 MHz [low voltage]
* 2: 311/297 MHz [performance mode, default state]
3: 311/297 Mhz

Once you get the number to use, likely same as above with ‘1′, you can do

# ati-config –set-powerstate=1 –effective=now

You can also use --effective=startup to have this saved in your X config file. Personally, I like to be able to change it on the fly.

]]> http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/06/24/macbook-pro-run-a-little-cooler-save-batter-power-with-ati-config/feed/ 2 spamassassin: make it work! http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/06/16/spamassassin-make-it-work/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/06/16/spamassassin-make-it-work/#comments Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:17:56 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/2006/06/16/spamassassin-make-it-work/ I emerged spamassassin, which installed the spamd server, and the spamc client, with which to talk to the server.

However, the logs were complaing TELL commands have not been enabled. It seems that SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd is missing the -l (–allow-tell) option.

Adding the above -l to SPAMD_OPTS allowed spamc to talk to spamd and make it start learning.

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]]> http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/28/sleep-works/feed/ 0 acer5670 page somewhat useful now http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/27/acer5670-page-somewhat-useful-now/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/27/acer5670-page-somewhat-useful-now/#comments Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:42:01 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/2006/04/27/acer5670-page-somewhat-useful-now/ If anyone else wants info regarding Gentoo (or another distro) on the Acer Aspire 5670, the page has been updated to the point where it is somewhat useful. Included is my kernel config and xorg.conf.

]]> http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/27/acer5670-page-somewhat-useful-now/feed/ 1 Installing Gentoo on Acer Aspire 5670 http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/23/installing-gentoo-on-acer-aspire-5670/ http://dicianno.org/blog/2006/04/23/installing-gentoo-on-acer-aspire-5670/#comments Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:05:20 +0000 armando http://www.dicianno.org/2006/04/23/installing-gentoo-on-acer-aspire-5670/ I’ll be keeping a journal of my installation and usage experiences of Gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5670. I purchased the 5670 in early February, and mainly used it as a Windows gaming machine until now. ATI released on 4/12/06 a new version of their proprietary drivers that support the X1400 graphics chip in this laptop, so I am hopeful that my experiences of using this laptop’s full feature set is quite likely.

Read about the install process, configuration files, and my general experiences.

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