Posts Tagged ‘floss’
I hate MITK, I hate CMake
Today I have been working on a Gentoo ebuild for the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK). After some hours of bug-huntingit seems I have been able of crafting a set of ebuilds for it and its dependencies. Now the beast is building (it is an enormous package, which is not a Good Thing™) and everything [...]
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Tags: devel, floss, gentoo
iPod, the Unix way
Heck, yes: I have an iPod, a 3G one, and it served me very well those last four years. But I always wanted to store the music where I think it is better to, not where Apple thought the music should be. Recently I discovered that libgpod can directly set the path to the file [...]
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OSL site up & running
The Free Software Office (OSL, «Oficina de Software Libre») of the University of A Coruña, where I work, made public its website last friday. It was about time… I hope you will like our mascot, it was drawn by me, as well as the logo for the ESCoBA
project. The site runs an [...]
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Tags: devel, floss
pam_mount, LUKS: revisited
Do you remember my previous rant on pam_mount? Well, now I must admit it works smoothly in its last incarnation, which is 0.18 at the time if this writing. I spent some time last weekend setting up a LUKS-encrypted partition to be used as home directory and decided to give it another try. Also, I [...]
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E17 overlayed!
The last week I was somewhat surprised because Enlightenment 0.17 dissapeared from the Portage tree. After some digging, I found the answer: now the ebuilds reside in their own overlay. If you want to continue using E17, Layman will do the thing:
# layman -a enlightenment
If you are using Paludis like me, you may prefer [...]
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Music, with Emphasis
Lately I have been using the great Music Player Daemon (or, in short, MPD) for playback, because I really find useful having it on the background and being able of using it from any imaginable interface: command line (“mpc”), text interface (the curses based “ncmpc”) and a large array of graphical interfaces… there are even [...]
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