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I did it! I have Gentoo booting! It was a long and sometimes confusing journey, but the login prompt is flashing at me as I type. One thing I had to do is change the Grub boot line to include :
after I got problems errors with it not being able to find devfs. I'm using udev instead.
Adium is a very cool messenger client for OSX. It takes the OSX interface to the max, very slick.
I've been having problems with Firefox and Thunderbird doing DNS lookups recently. The lookups were taking much longer than they should have been, around 5 seconds for each lookup. This becomes highly annoying very quickly. DNS resolution from the machine using nslookup or host seemed ok.
Tracked it down to the network.dns.disableIPv6 setting (firefox - about:config). This was set to False, thus an IPV6 lookup was attempted each time before an IPV4. Setting this to True fixed the problem for Firefox, and seems to have had the same effect on Thunderbird (didn't know they shared these settings?).
One the whole I don't have many problems with Firefox, but the bad choice of mapping CTRL-U to view source is one of them. CTRL-U should be, as all good people know, mapped to delete all characters in the field back to the beginning. This is normally so handy. So I googled a bit and hey presto, a solution :
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-October/008614.html
Basically the idea is to remap the key yourself. Edit the file :
/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/lib/firefox-0.10.1/res/builtin/platformHTMLBindings.xml
or where ever it happens to be on your machine, and add the following line to the input section:
<handler event="keypress" key="u"modifiers="control" command="cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine"/>
The best thing is that CTRL-U in the page still brings up the source.
Weird problem. Getting this message after installing ftpd under Gentoo and trying to ftp in for the first time :
Error loading /etc/ssl/certs/ftpd.pem
For some reason there are SSL certificates involved? I fixed this by taking the script:
cert-dummy.sh
from the source tarball of bsdftpd-ssl. Run it, then copy the resulting file cert-dummy.pem to ftpd.pem and plonk it in the appropriate place. Seems to do the trick.
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