Category Archives: Computer stuff

Finally running Linux on my desktop computer….

By vorlon-MT | February 10, 2004

I finally switched to using Linux on my desktop pc… gentoo to be exact. Took me about a weekend to have the most important stuff set up, like GNOME, mozilla, tv and music apps etc. Right now it’s compiling OpenOffice.org, just like the last few hours

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Following some Gentoo security bugs

By vorlon-MT | October 1, 2003

Since I have been using pine-maildir and there was a security update for pine but not pine-maildir I am following Bug #28877, but it doesn’t really seem to interest anyone.
Then yesterday this OpenSSL Security Advisory came out and I filed #29999, which was marked a duplicate of #30001 later. I just emerged the new ebuild [...]

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CVS for configuration files, web pages, etc II

By vorlon-MT | September 23, 2003

Just wanted to list what helped understanding CVS:

CVS-RCS-HOWTO Document for Linux (Source Code Control System) at The Linux Documentation Project
MarkD’s Guide to CVS, unfortunately the chapter ‘Using CVS’ isn’t done yet
the cvs info and man pages, the info pages actually have a quite good explanation of CVS

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CVS for configuration files, web pages, etc

By vorlon-MT | September 23, 2003

I just started using CVS to keep track of the changes I make to various configuration files and the templates for this blog etc. Hopefully i got the discipline to keep using it and hopefully it will make it easier for me to remember what I changed when.
Btw, for this little purpose it actually seems [...]

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Finally got the mail set up with virtual user/domain support

By vorlon-MT | September 22, 2003

Finally got the mail system set up to support virtual users and domains. More on this later… since it took me way longer to get it to work than I thought

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Installing pine on Debian

By vorlon-MT | September 19, 2003

Before I forget it again… To install pine from the Debian sources just do the following:
# apt-get –only-source build-dep pine
# apt-get –only-source -b source pine
# dpkg -i <packagefile>
You need to have the matching deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list.
The first command will install the the dependencies needed to build, the second will get the sources and build [...]

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