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<title>ratposoni</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I use &lt;b&gt;xfce&lt;/b&gt; on my old iBook. Yesterday I wanted to switch back to &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net"&gt;ratpoison&lt;/a&gt;. No problem, I still have &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/RatpoisonSetup"&gt;my configuration of 2003&lt;/a&gt;. After half an hour I went back to xfce. Why?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most serious problem was &lt;b&gt;wifi&lt;/b&gt;. I work in my living room with a very weak wifi signal. The iBook receiver is very weak. I often loose the signal. When I&amp;#x2019;m using xfce, something takes care of this. With ratpoison, when the signal goes, it goes. And when it comes back, I can &lt;code&gt;sudo ifdown&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;ifup&lt;/code&gt; and pray and &lt;code&gt;sudo start networking&lt;/code&gt; and then it still won&amp;#x2019;t work. As I said, after half an hour I went back to xfce. Do I have to install this &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://box.matto.nl/ratpoison_nmapplet.html"&gt;nm-applet&lt;/a&gt; I keep hearing about?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Had I spent more time with ratpoison, I would have investigated a solution to have Shift Tab switch windows. It&amp;#x2019;s hardwired into my motor patterns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: Actually, I tried the solution using &lt;code&gt;nm-applet&lt;/code&gt; and it appears to work! I went back to my &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/RatpoisonSetup"&gt;ratpoison setup&lt;/a&gt; page and updated it. I&amp;#x2019;m using ratpoison right now. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/ok.png" alt="ok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:42:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Installing Ubuntu 11.10 on my iBook G4</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Upgrading my &lt;b&gt;iBook G4&lt;/b&gt; to &lt;b&gt;Ubuntu 11.10&lt;/b&gt; went without a hitch. But as the system rebooted, I ran into a problem:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;WARNING &lt;b&gt;boot device may be renamed&lt;/b&gt;. Try root=/dev/sda3&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Gave up waiting for root device. [&amp;#x2026;]&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now what? The Ubuntu forum got me &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1861871"&gt;the answer I was looking for&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;at the first boot prompt, answer &lt;code&gt;l&lt;/code&gt; because you want to boot Linux&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;at the second boot prompt, answer &lt;code&gt;Linux root=/dev/sda3&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;if that works, fix your config by running &lt;code&gt;sudo yabootconfig -r /dev/sda3&lt;/code&gt; from the command line&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks, Internet! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/round-heart.png" alt="&amp;lt;3" /&gt; &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/grin.png" alt=":D" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is one strange, tiny problem I do have, however: The trackpad will not work if the laptop boots with an external mouse connected. When I run &lt;code&gt;sudo trackpad show&lt;/code&gt; I get back &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11354627#post11354627"&gt;no trackpad !&lt;/a&gt; Weird, but not really a problem. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: For those of you coming here via Google search—if you are wondering how I got Unity to work—I did not. I switched to Xubuntu! Back when I was using Ubuntu 10, &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-07-24_Ubuntu_to_Xubuntu"&gt;I made my switch&lt;/a&gt;: From the command line, I ran  &lt;code&gt;sudo tasksel install xubuntu-desktop&lt;/code&gt;. then, in order to save disk space, I ran &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get autoremove&lt;/code&gt;. I haven&amp;#x2019;t tried it in a long time, but upgrading my Ubuntu system still works. Yay! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Mac"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Mac"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Xubuntu 11.04</title>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Upgrading my old iBook to Xubuntu 11.04 after not having used it for many months was no problem!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity I installed &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Unity&lt;/em&gt; only to be told that my hardware to was too lame to run it. Installing it had the unfortunate side-effect of getting the &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Nautilus&lt;/em&gt; file manager again. Thus, whenever I started a session, the blue Xfce session manager (gdm?) background would be replaced by the rust brown background used by Nautilus for a second, until it was again replaced by the blue background of the Xfce file manager &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Thunar&lt;/em&gt;. I went back to my old post, &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2010-07-24_Ubuntu_to_Xubuntu"&gt;2010-07-24 Ubuntu to Xubuntu&lt;/a&gt;. I ended up removing &lt;code&gt;nautilus&lt;/code&gt; and some dependencies, verified that &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop&lt;/code&gt; had nothing to remove and ran &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get autoremove&lt;/code&gt;. Let&amp;#x2019;s restart and check. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Mac"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Mac"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Gadgets"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Gadgets"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Xubuntu"&gt;Xubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/feed/full/Xubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:05:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Ok, so yesterday my ISP&amp;#x2019;s downtime caused some extra trouble.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x2019;s what I did:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tried the recommended way using the update manager &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes"&gt;in the Ubuntu Upgrade Notes&lt;/a&gt; and got an error.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ran &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get dist-upgrade&lt;/code&gt; which installed a new linux and asked for a reboot. But then nothing else happened. Yeah, wrong idea!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ran &lt;code&gt;sudo do-release-upgrade&lt;/code&gt; which aborted with the same error.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Checked out the Apple user Ubuntu forum and found a thread that recommended manually fiddling with the sources list. &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1465528"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;So I did. I edited &lt;code&gt;/etc/apt/sources.list&lt;/code&gt; and replaced all occurrences of &lt;code&gt;karmic&lt;/code&gt; with &lt;code&gt;lucid&lt;/code&gt; and commented out the two lines from partners.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I ran &lt;code&gt;sudo do-release-upgrade&lt;/code&gt; again. &amp;#x201c;Do you want to start the upgrade?&amp;#x201d; Yes!! &amp;#x201c;24 packages are going to be removed. 175 new packages are going to be installed. 1390 packages are going to be upgraded.&amp;#x201c; Sounds about right! &amp;#x201c;You have to download a total of 790M. This download will take about 1 hour 40 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 1 day 6 hours with a 56k modem.&amp;#x201c; Just do it!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;As the thread noted my keyboard and the mouse clicks stopped working after a while and when I was asked whether I wanted to remove some obsolete packages, I couldn&amp;#x2019;t answer. I had to shut down the laptop manually.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebooted, and was running the new Ubuntu! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/grin.png" alt=":D" /&gt; &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/ok.png" alt="ok" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Running &lt;code&gt;sudo apt-get autoremove&lt;/code&gt; and removed 25 packages.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think I&amp;#x2019;m done?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre class="real"&gt;alex@orientalibombus:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release:	10.04
Codename:	lucid&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I can already report a definite improvement. When the iBook awakens from sleep, I can reconnect to my wireless network. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I uncommented the partner lines again, ran &lt;code&gt;apt-get update&lt;/code&gt; and &lt;code&gt;apt-get upgrade&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#x2013; there was nothing to install, and no error messages. Good!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=macppc"&gt;macppc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:macppc"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:56:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;My old iBook is still being used! I installed Ubuntu on it a while ago. Today I thought that it was kind-of sluggish and I decided to switch from the default window manager and desktop environment to something leaner. I remember a long time ago I had been using &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/SlackWare"&gt;SlackWare&lt;/a&gt; and had switched from KDE to Xfce. Time to try it again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Right now I sort-of miss the Exposé functionality. I think I just need to find a different solution or I might go back to Gnome because of the resources this will need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My menu-bar background is black. Yuck, that&amp;#x2019;s ugly. Must find a better theme. I think I&amp;#x2019;m running into two things conflicting, here. By using Xfce 4 Settings Manager &amp;#x2192; Appearance I was able to switch from Albatross to Clearlooks, I fixed the menu-bar. Previously, I had only used the Window Manager setting to switch from Default style to Agua style. Solved, I think.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I find that my dead keys are only working partially. The obvious stuff like the circumflex (^ + e = ê) and the umlaut (¨ + o = ö) work, but I&amp;#x2019;ve grown used to Alt+2 resulting in “ and Alt+Shift+2 resulting in ” &amp;#x2013; something about my keymap is broken! It turns out that I want my Option key to be used as Alt, with Emacs treating Alt as Meta. The Alt key, however, should be used as whatever it&amp;#x2019;s called to access the extra stuff on a key (again, I&amp;#x2019;ll have to look up the names). Gah! Keyboard Layouts Settings is not helping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Half the problem is solved by the following &amp;#x2013; now the Option key acts as alt/meta.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    ! Option key is alt/meta
    remove mod4 = Super_L
    add mod1 = Super_L&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using &amp;#x201c;keycode 64 = Mode_switch&amp;#x201d; doesn&amp;#x2019;t change the Alt key to give me access to the third and fourth keysym. What&amp;#x2019;s wrong? Time to reread my old blog posts&amp;#x2026; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-11-30_Keyboard_Remapping"&gt;2009-11-30 Keyboard Remapping&lt;/a&gt;. Truly, I feel like I&amp;#x2019;m giving advice to my future self. Ah, there it is!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    ! Alt key switches levels
    remove mod1 = Alt_L
    keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it works! Now to make this permanent&amp;#x2026; save the lines in a file called /.Xmodmap and they&amp;#x2019;ll get run when you log in. Problem solved!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Also remember the changes I made to my system: &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-12-19_Waiting_For_Processes"&gt;2009-12-19 Waiting For Processes&lt;/a&gt;…)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: I&amp;#x2019;m currently using the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    keycode 133 = Meta_L
    keycode 64 = ISO_Level3_Shift
    remove mod1 = ISO_Level3_Shift
    keycode 65 = space space&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ended up typing a lot of Shift+Space = non-breaking space.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Xfce"&gt;Xfce&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Xfce"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:32:08 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Flickering Screen</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-12-24_Flickering_Screen</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Gaaah! I wanted to sit at the laptop and catch with my Google Reader &amp;#x2013; and find that my screen is flickering! Damn it. Does this herald the end of my beloved hardware &amp;#x2013; mere weeks after I finally installed Ubuntu on the iBook? Or has Ubuntu destroyed my monitor!?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The scary thing is that things seem much improved if I switch from 1024&amp;#215;768 to 800&amp;#215;600.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: Well, today it seems to be gone again. I wonder what that was about!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Gadgets"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Gadgets"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:06:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ubuntu For The Win</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-11-21_Ubuntu_For_The_Win</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I decided to install Ubuntu 9.10 instead of trying to figure out what the problem with the  wireless firmware (&amp;#x2192; &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-11-14_Mutt"&gt;2009-11-14 Mutt&lt;/a&gt;). When I installed it while connected to the network via ethernet cable, it offered to download and install the necessary driver for the wireless card. I set up the network, but the device still seemed to be unavailable. I rebooted the system and wireless &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;just worked&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wow!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m surprised! And awed!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;dl class="quote"&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;Alpinobombus is dead, long live Confusibombus!&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;dt /&gt;&lt;dd&gt;(my hostnames are all bumblebee related)&lt;/dd&gt;&lt;/dl&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now I just need to get the correct Swiss German keyboard mapping with the specific keys not visible on the keyboard &amp;#x2013; bracers, pipe, at sign, square brackets, that kind of thing. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer to that was available from System &amp;#x2192; Preferences &amp;#x2192; Keyboard. In the Layouts section, I picked Keyboard model &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Apple Laptop&lt;/em&gt;, no Separate layout for each window, LayoutÂ &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Switzerland German (Macintosh)&lt;/em&gt;, and for &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Layout Options...&lt;/em&gt; I picked &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Key to choose 3rd level&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2192; &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Any Alt key&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#x2019;s see how well that works.Â I still have to install my beloved Emacs and see how the Option key turns out. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The answer to that turns out to be &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Alt/Win key behavior&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2192; &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Meta is mapped to Win keys&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/vee.png" alt="vee" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just for kicks I also activated &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Ctrl key position&lt;/em&gt; &amp;#x2192; &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m also interested in clicking via Touchpad. Don&amp;#x2019;t let yourself be confused. If &lt;code&gt;xinput list&lt;/code&gt; shows that you have an &amp;#x201c;ADB mouse&amp;#x201d;, &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=211797"&gt;you can still have tapping and dragging&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    sudo trackpad tap
    sudo trackpad drag&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yay! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to make this permanent, I added it to &lt;code&gt;/etc/rc.local&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#x2013; without the sudo, of course:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    # By default this script does nothing.
    trackpad tap
    trackpad drag
    exit 0&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=OpenBSD"&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:OpenBSD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Ubuntu"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Gadgets"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Gadgets"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:12:26 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>OpenBSD (macppc)</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-11-13_OpenBSD_(macppc)</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;I made the last backup of my iBook Alpinobombus and installed &lt;a class="near" title="MeatBall" href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?OpenBSD"&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://www.openbsd.org/macppc.html"&gt;macppc&lt;/a&gt; on it. Burn the &lt;b&gt;install46.iso&lt;/b&gt; image onto a CD, insert into iBook, hold c while booting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The wireless network needs some sort of firmware which I downloaded from the net and saved on an USB stick. See &lt;code&gt;man bwi&lt;/code&gt; for the location. Anyway, now I needed to get the package from the stick onto the laptop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x2019;t understand why &lt;em style="text-decoration: underline; font-style: normal;"&gt;i&lt;/em&gt; is relevant, but this &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://www.jellopinki.de/planet/?p=7"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;1&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; worked:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    mount -t msdos /dev/sd0i /mnt/stick&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I kept trying sd0a… &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/cry.png" alt=":'(" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I added the following line to &lt;code&gt;/etc/fstab&lt;/code&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    /dev/sd0i /mnt/stick msdos rw,noauto 0 0&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hope &lt;code&gt;mount /mnt/stick&lt;/code&gt; will work from now on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back to the network! With &lt;code&gt;pkg_add bwi-firmware-1.4.tgz&lt;/code&gt; finally available I installed the firmware for the Airport wireless card in my old iBook. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/ok.png" alt="ok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Use &lt;code&gt;ifconfig&lt;/code&gt; to verify that &lt;b&gt;bwi0&lt;/b&gt; is your wireless interface. Use &lt;code&gt;ifconfig bwi0 scan&lt;/code&gt; to list the networks available and find yours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now the WPA stuff for my Schroeder network…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    ifconfig bwi0 nwid Schroeder wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk Schroeder "*secret*"`
    ifconfig bwi0 up
    dhclient bwi0&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;And it seems to work. I can &lt;code&gt;ping www.google.com&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#x2013; win! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thus, I removed any &lt;code&gt;/etc/hostname.*&lt;/code&gt; files that didn&amp;#x2019;t work and created a single &lt;code&gt;/etc/hostname.bwi0&lt;/code&gt; file containing the following line:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;    dhcp nwid Schroeder wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk Schroeder "*secret*"`&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x2019;m surprised it works!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;fixing the keymap layout &amp;#x2013; &lt;code&gt;kbd -l&lt;/code&gt; lists de and others, but no &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Swiss_and_German_Keyboard_on_the_iBook"&gt;Swiss German layout&lt;/a&gt; &amp;#x2192; &lt;b&gt;update&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/lightbulb.png" alt="lightbulb" /&gt; Apparently &lt;b&gt;sg&lt;/b&gt; stands for Swiss German! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;setting up ports, getting Emacs &amp;#8592; very important! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/blink.png" alt=";)" /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;setting up email&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Much later&amp;#x2026; Firefox?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Luckily I&amp;#x2019;ve used US keyboards before, and I&amp;#x2019;ve used vi before. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/ok.png" alt="ok" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Second Day &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;echo sg &amp;gt; /etc/kbdtype&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#x2013; apparently I can use &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#Keyboard"&gt;wsconsctl&lt;/a&gt; to remap more keys.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently there are no virtual terminals because there&amp;#x2019;s no VGA card, but there&amp;#x2019;s an alternative to GNU screen: &lt;a class="url http outside" href="http://openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux"&gt;tmux&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I realized that there are two levels of packages: 1. binary packages 2. the ports system. I started by setting &lt;code&gt;PKG_PATH=ftp://mirror.switch.ch/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/`machine -a`/:ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/`machine -a`/:ftp://ftp.OpenBSD.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/`machine -a`/&lt;/code&gt; in my &lt;code&gt;.profile&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://openbsd.bsdfrog.org/faq/faq15.html#PkgMgmt"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;2&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to test this, I decided to run &lt;code&gt;sudo pkg_add -v mutt&lt;/code&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the same time I feel like setting up the ports system by downloading &lt;code&gt;ports.tar.gz&lt;/code&gt;. &lt;a class="url http number" href="http://openbsd.bsdfrog.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;[&lt;/span&gt;3&lt;span class="bracket"&gt;]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Need Firefox and Emacs!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=OpenBSD"&gt;OpenBSD&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:OpenBSD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=macppc"&gt;macppc&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:macppc"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Gadgets"&gt;Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Gadgets"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed für diesen Tag" rel="feed" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=journal;full=1;search=tag:Software"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex/pics/rss.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:48:21 GMT</pubDate>
<comments>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Comments_on_2009-11-13_OpenBSD_(macppc)</comments>
<dc:contributor>AlexSchroeder</dc:contributor>
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<title>Emacs 23 on Mac OS 10.3</title>
<link>http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-10-10_Emacs_23_on_Mac_OS_10.3</link>
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<description>&lt;p&gt;My old iBook still runs Mac OS 10.3 aka. Panther. I keep thinking about &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-09-19_Installing_Debian"&gt;replacing it with GNU/Linux&lt;/a&gt; one of these days. For the moment, however, I still use it when &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Claudia"&gt;Claudia&lt;/a&gt; sits at our Mac Mini.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As I have switched to Emacs 23 from CVS on all my major machines, I feel like trying it on my laptop, too. I recently built &lt;a class="local" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2008-09-09_Emacs_for_OSX_10.3"&gt;Emacs 22 for my laptop&lt;/a&gt;. Now I feel like I wasted time on that&amp;#x2026; Oh well. We&amp;#x2019;ll see whether this works as intended! &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I discovered that I still have some old libraries in &lt;code&gt;/opt/local&lt;/code&gt; &amp;#x2013; old &lt;a class="near" title="Names" href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/"&gt;DarwinPorts&lt;/a&gt; stuff? I must confess that these days I hardly use ports anymore. I just download pre-built binaries, or build from source. That&amp;#x2019;s how awesome the world has become. &lt;img class="smiley" src="http://www.emacswiki.org/pics/smile.png" alt=":)" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So anyway, Emacs from CVS &amp;#x2192; build from source, haha.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;code&gt;CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/opt/local/lib' ./configure --with-gif=no --with-ns&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Apparently all this Cocoa stuff is now called NextStep because of the move to the &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?EmacsApp"&gt;EmacsApp&lt;/a&gt; project. Yikes! No more &lt;a class="near" title="EmacsWiki" href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs?CarbonEmacsPackage"&gt;CarbonEmacsPackage&lt;/a&gt; stuff!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strange: As I discovered a while ago, the libraries are not really necessary. And yet ./configure complained when it could not find them. I guess I should report that as a bug.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Trying to build it right now&amp;#x2026; Will report back.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hm&amp;#x2026;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;In file included from nsfns.m:36:
keyboard.h:324: warning: redefinition of `Boolean'
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Headers/../Frameworks/CarbonCore.framework/Headers/MacTypes.h:255: warning: `Boolean' previously declared here
nsfns.m: In function `interpret_services_menu':
nsfns.m:293: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
nsfns.m: In function `ns_do_applescript':
nsfns.m:2042: error: `typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation' undeclared (first use in this function)
nsfns.m:2042: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
nsfns.m:2042: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [nsfns.o] Error 1
make: *** [src] Error 2
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do I report this as a bug?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: Doh, I discovered that all the CPPFLAGS etc. settings are not necessary. The only thing you need to use is &lt;b&gt;--with-ns&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Emacs"&gt;Emacs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Software"&gt;Software&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://www.emacswiki.org/alex?action=tag;id=Mac"&gt;Mac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:41:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>&lt;div class="image right"&gt;&lt;a class="image right outside" href="http://xkcd.com/478/"&gt;&lt;img class="upload" title="Installing Debian using a Staple Gun" src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/Installing%20Debian.png" alt="Installing Debian using a Staple Gun" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="caption"&gt;From xkcd – The Staple Madness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; I still haven&amp;#x2019;t switched back from &lt;abbr title="Mac OS 10"&gt;OSX&lt;/abbr&gt; to GNU/Linux. I keep telling myself that I&amp;#x2019;ll switch my old iBook laptop back to Debian as soon as the old Mac OS 10.3 no longer does its job. I&amp;#x2019;m not using the laptop as often as I used to, so I feel free to experiment with it.&lt;p&gt;Back in the days my main problem was that the wireless card didn&amp;#x2019;t work as expected. These days I fear for my scanner as it only works with my laptop and not with my desktop – a Mac Mini running Mac OS 10.4. Then again, that sort of hardware problems was the reason I switched away from GNU/Linux in the end, so … doh!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Debian"&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Debian"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=GNU"&gt;GNU&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/GNU"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=Linux"&gt;Linux&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/Linux"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=FreeSoftware"&gt;FreeSoftware&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/FreeSoftware"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="outside tag" title="Tag" rel="tag" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki?action=tag;id=iBook"&gt;iBook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a class="feed tag" title="Feed for this tag" rel="feed" href="http://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/feed/full/iBook"&gt;&lt;img src="http://alexschroeder.ch/pics/rss.png" alt="RSS" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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