If you have (or want) to install software not using your distributions package/ports manager you’re left with basically two choices: Install it in /usr/local (i.e. system-wide) or in your homedir (like ~/local). Whatever you decide to do you really should use stow (as i learned today ;). Stow makes managing the different software packages easy. [...]
I wrote three blog-posts recently which I kinda like to “take back” or refine now. I am not taking the old ones offline though.
First I wrote about how to use git on Mac OS X remotely (i.e.: pushing/fetching to/from a Mac OS X machine). I gave a rather lengthy and stupid explanation on how to [...]
Boy do I hate printers. But there is no getting around it (and I do love printing stuff ;). Ive been happily using my Laserjet 1320 with Cups 1.1.23-r8 on Gentoo, masking any newer versions because they did not work. Well, long story short, today I (accidently) upgraded Cups and the problem I always avoided [...]
