Miia Ranta » irssi http://myrtti.fi/blog Nerdette ravings Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:02:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Viglen MPC-L from Xubuntu 10.04 LTS to Debian stable http://myrtti.fi/blog/2012/04/30/viglen-mpc-l-from-xubuntu-10-04-lts-to-debian-stable/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2012/04/30/viglen-mpc-l-from-xubuntu-10-04-lts-to-debian-stable/#comments Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:00:24 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=979 Continue reading →]]> With Ubuntu not supplying a kernel suitable for the CPU (a Geode GX2 by National Semiconductors, a 486 buzzing at 399MHz clock rate) of my Viglen MPC-L (the one Duncan documented the installation of Xubuntu in 2010), it was time to look for other alternatives. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of using some random repository to get the suitable kernel for newer version of Ubuntu, so Debian was the next best thing that came to mind.

Friday night, right before heading out to pub with friends, I sat on the couch, armed with a laptop, USB keyboard, RGB cable and a USB memory stick. Trial and error reminded me to

  1. use bittorrent to download the image since our flaky Belkin-powered Wifi cuts off the connection every few minutes and thus corrupts direct downloads, and
  2. do the boot script magic of pnpbios=off noapic acpi=off like with our earlier Xubuntu installation.

In contrast to the experience of installing Xubuntu on the Viglen MPC-L, the Debian installation was easy from here on. The installer seemed to not only detect the needed kernel and install the correct one (Linux wizzle 2.6.32-5-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 04:36:28 UTC 2012 i586 GNU/Linux) but, judging from the success of the first reboot after the installation had finished and a quick look at /boot/grub/grub.cfg, had also set the right boot options automatically. So the basic setup was a *lot* easier than it was with Xubuntu!

Some things that I’ve gotten used to being automatically installed with Ubuntu weren’t pre-installed with Debian and so I had to install them for my usage. Tasksel installed ssh server, but rsync, lshw and ntfs-3g needed to be installed as well which I had gotten used to having in Ubuntu, but installing them wasn’t too much of a chore. As I use my Viglen MPC-L as my main irssi shell nowadays, I had to install of course irssi, but some other stuff needed by it and my other usage patterns… so… after installing apt-file pastebinit zsh fail2ban for my pet peeves, and tmux irssi irssi-scripts libcrypt-blowfish-perl libcrypt-dh-perl libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl libdbi-perl sqlite3 libdbd-sqlite3-perl I finally have approximately the system I needed.

All in all, the experience was a lot easier than what I had with Xubuntu in September 2010. It definitely surprised me and I kind of hope that this process wasn’t as easy and automated 18 months ago…

]]> http://myrtti.fi/blog/2012/04/30/viglen-mpc-l-from-xubuntu-10-04-lts-to-debian-stable/feed/ 4 If I really knew how to code… http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:21:54 +0000 myrtti http://myrtti.fi/blog/?p=211 Continue reading →]]>
  • I’d fix gnabblet.sis (an application used on Symbian60 phones to patch their lack of support for FBUS) to work on Symbian60v3
  • I’d add GNU/Gettext support to gwibber and fix the Facebook bug
  • I’d code a decent IRC client for Symbian60v3 phones (or others with J2ME) that could do multiple networks, hilights, aliasing, mute, tabcomplete
  • I’d add Adblock Plus support to Epiphany
  • I’d help with Epiphany/Webkit
  • I’d make midori less buggy and crashy
  • I’d contribute more to Terminator
  • I’d try to fix Epilicious addons Delicious functionality on Epiphany
  • I’d try to create a Fuzzy Clock screenlet
  • I’d help with irssi-otr
  • I’d modify apport to allow editing of the data before uploading them to launchpad
  • I’d code an application similar to FairIsle.jar for designing knitting patterns that would save the knitting patterns in KnitML, be GPL’d and done in Python with GTK/Qt frontends

    • *sigh*
    /me picks up her copy of “Learning Python” by Mark Lutz and starts on page 1…

    ]]>     http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/08/22/if-i-really-knew-how-to-code/feed/ 12     Dear Lazyweb: irssi, OTR, bitlbee http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/06/20/dear-lazyweb-irssi-otr-bitlbee/ http://myrtti.fi/blog/2008/06/20/dear-lazyweb-irssi-otr-bitlbee/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:06:41 +0000 myrtti http://koti.kapsi.fi/~myrtti/blog/?p=94 Continue reading →]]> Dear Lazyweb:

    As an irssi fangirl, I constantly search for solutions to enhance my IRC experience. One of them is logging which I adore. I log all my private conversations (for I’ve lost relevant email addresses, snailmail addresses, phone numbers, promises, threats and beautiful poems too many times before) for future reference to help my memory.

    As I’m also using multiple platforms as my communication device (my Ubuntu desktop, my Xubuntu laptop, my IT2007HE2 Nokia Internet Tablet 770, sometimes my sister’s Windows XP, sometimes an odd Windows / whatever), and multiple protocols, I’ve used Pidgin for IM and irssi for IRC. This is quite problematic, since that by default results in

    • my logs being on multiple computers
    • different settings for each client I use
    • inconsistency in my behavioural models

    For the problems mentioned above, I’ve used bitlbee IM2IRC gateway before, and few weeks ago compiled a special version for my homeserver to allow Jabber to connect using other ports than allowed by default. This has solved most of my problems.

    One still remains though, and this is the part where I yell for help – how can I use OTR with my setup? I’ve tried to look into the forums and apparently there is some steps already taken in the issue, for what I see Debian might be/is packaging a plugin for irssi-otr in the future. However, my home server is Ubuntu Hardy, and I want the OTR *right now*. EEEEEP. What to do?

    on related note, I use terminator straight from bzr, and I lovez it.
    PS. Hyvää Juhannusta!

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