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I recently picked up a Netgear PS101 Mini Print Server. The reason was that I work from home most of the time now, and needed to be able to print papers. However, the only “real” printer we have is an older HP LaserJet 4L. It works fine, but it only has a [...]

I upgraded my desktop last night from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon. I must say that it was a pretty disappointing upgrade. The things that broke are:

My mouse behaviour inexplicably changed to “focus on click” from “focus on mouse over” - and the settings to change it back are not under the [...]

Lately, my Ubuntu laptop has been driving me up the wall. Everything has been really slow to start: gnome-terminal, Firefox, emacs, you name it. I’ve tried everything I could think of and scoured the internet. I removed fonts, altered init files, changed bootscripts, etc. Then, I discovered that everything goes back [...]

There are a lot of neat things that I can almost do with Evolution, my Palm and webcal, but I don’t seem to be able to make them happen. It’s kind of annoying, actually. Even though I use Linux pretty much exclusively, this is the sort of thing that really drives me nuts: [...]

Well, I ordered a new laptop the other day: a Sony Vaio VGN-TX650P/B. I opted for the 650 instead of the 610 for a couple of reasons: 1) it is actually available and so the price tends to be comparable 2) it has a DVD recorder and since the laptop doesn’t come with installation [...]

My trusty Dell Inspiron 8500 is on its last legs. Actually, it’s totally fine except that the power socket in the mainboard is screwed and only makes an intermittent connection. The net effect is that the battery runs down and the thing shuts itself down all the time. This is extremely frustrating [...]

I’ve been quite annoyed trying to parse the configuration file for converting to the new bbkeys version. Luckily a guy named Hannes Reich has written a script.

I am trying to get CMUCL working via Gentoo Portage again. It looks like I can get version 19b with:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~x86″ emerge -va cmucl

I’m not sure if this will resolve the streams issue I had earlier or not.

Just in case anyone else is ever interested… I wanted to be able to have my E17 desktops to switch with the function keys and no modifiers. In other words, I want F1 to go to the first desktop, F2 to the second and so on. The default setting requires pressing the alt [...]

I just installed the Enlightenment Window Manager on my Gentoo Laptop. It went relatively smoothly, following the instructions from here and here. One thing that was not clear from the documentation was that you need to have avifile installed (just do the usual emerge) and you need to be able to find the [...]

First, I tried SBCL on Gentoo, then I tried CMUCL from Portage, then installing it straight from the binaries. I’m now going back to scratch and I’m going to record what I’m doing here. Truthfully, my objective is to make my efforts here searchable for other people having the same problems. I [...]

It appears that the Gentoo ebuild of cmucl and cmucl-source does not include simple-streams. I have no idea why this is, but I decided to unmerge them both and just install CMUCL straight off of the tarballs. That seems to be the only way to make sure I have a sane install. [...]

Just in case anyone else has problems installing CLOCC on
Gentoo, here is what I ultimately had to do to get it working. My problem was with finding gray streams, as was this guy’s. Anyway, after installing cmucl and cmucl-source, and following most of the instructions for CLOCC, it turns out that you need [...]