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December 27, 2005
HOWTO: Use cvs with proxy on Mac OS X 10.4
I usually with connect.c for cvs SSH server.
For pserver, on Linux I used runsocks before, and now use dante-client instead.
I wanted to download code for Web Kit, and found dante couldn't work on Mac OS X 10.4.
Here is the solution.
Install cvs-proxy package by fink.
/sw/bin/fink install cvs-proxy
(You may use FinkCommander to do so if you like.)
Then it built the binary at /sw/bin/cvs.
It uses your http-proxy automatically. Cool!
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No missing Asia characters any more
I tried to build Firefox with patch v7 of Bug 121540.
The result exceeds my expectation.
No missing characters even with www.google.com.np.
And bold, italic, underline styles are all correct.
A hack to get better font for simplified Chinese is to set fonts for Japanese encoding to 'Kai' and 'Hei'.
Here's a screenshot.
Good job, YAMASHITA Makoto.
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December 14, 2005
What's wrong with del.icio.us
See screenshots.
Very strange. Did a hacker destroy images, or hard drive error did the trick?
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December 6, 2005
Solaris 10, Windows X64, Ubuntu X64 multiboot
1) Install Windows X64 on primary partition hda1 use NTFS
2) Install Solaris 10 on primary partition hda2, and install its grub on /dev/hda
3) Install ubuntu X64 on primary partition hda3, using hda5 as swap, and install its grub on /dev/hda3
4) Edit menu.lst in Solaris 10, add an option for (hd0,2)
5) done!
Here is the partition table.
$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3187 25599546 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 3188 8287 40961088 bf Solaris
/dev/hda3 8288 9666 11076817+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 9667 9729 506047+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 9667 9729 506016 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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Cool! Broadcom Wireless Chipsets reverse engineered!
Here's the official announcement:
http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/announcement.pdf
The chipsets is used in Apple's AipPort Extreme in Power and iBooks.
Someone had approved it can work with static IP on Linux now.
I was waiting for this news for 14 months since I bought my PowerBook G4.
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December 5, 2005
Got free shipped ubuntu CDs
After a month's waiting, they arrived at my office.
Seems they were shipped from Netherlands.
I'm very happy to get real CDs with ubuntu logo, although I've burned installation CDs by myself.
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Set http proxy for ubuntu 5.10 GUI Update Manager
Set proxies in Gnome "Network Proxy Setting", or in /etc/bash.bashrc, or /etc/wget.rc won't apply to Update Manager.
You had to put a line like this in /etc/apt/apt.conf
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.mydomain.com:8080";
apt.conf usually doesn't exist yet, so you will have to create in, with just that line in it.
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