OK. I admit it. I learned emacs just to be snobby. I love it (emacs, not the snobbery) but I finally sat down and made myself just that bit more adept in VIM so as to not grumble about emacs being able to do this or that. In fact, I'm writing this page using VIM right now.
Here I'd like to start my list of 10 useful VIM tips to make emacs users better
^x^s - dammit ^x- crap, how do i ? dddx : fnck - escape i$a i'm going back to emacs
This page is getting pretty old. If you are trying to run LinuxPPC then it might be useful. I was enjoying a pretty nice system at it high point -- now I'm mainly doing things in osx - apache and photoshop on the same machine (!)
I have been tinkering with Linux on several Macintoshes over that last year or so and have developed some level of confidence and understanding of how to get the Linux system to do various things that you want it to. I had got to thinking that I need to start keeping (better) logs of things that I do on these machines. These pages will be an attempt to describe my system (in as much detail as I feel like)
If you'd care to comment on any of this, or ask questions - Email linuxrat@cyberrodent.com
I have LinuxPPC running on a PowerMac 8500 - 208 Megs Ram and a 233 604e card. Its also got an Adaptec 2930 SCSI card (connected to a 4gig and a 2gig drive - the 2gig has Linux, the 4gig is Mac(os9). There is also a 1.2 gig drive on the 8500's own internal SCSI port which is HFS and is mounted by both Linux and Mac. There is alsa a slightly flakey IMS Twin Turbo 4Meg Video Card driving a 15" NEC C500 monitor. This is the machine that I've had the longest and I guess I've been trying to get it to be as useful with Linux as it is as a Mac (or more so) I have been able to get a number of things to work (ppp, ethernet, mysql, netatalk, video in on the 8500, HP Deskjet 855C, zip drive, SCSI accelerator card, caching DNS (more or less) and the beginings of IP Masq)
I also have a PowerBook G3-400 (lombard) with a 6 gig drive split 4mac/2linux running linux. I am doing php/mysql development on the laptop. Got sleep + Batmon working. Currently a bunch of the keys on the keyboard started failing - so I have only been working this machine by ssh from a desktop. Before that I had been trying to get the DVD player to work - I think I got the content to unlock - I think I just need to get a video player -- and wondering if I need to compile video-4-linux into the kernal to do that?. But meanwhile I'm waiting for a new keyborard to arrive.
I also have a Pentium 100 (Sharp PC9000 Laptop) running Mandrake 6 something (not sure on the version - might be 5 something) I have installed a RealServer on here. Tried to get Flash Generator running on it (just a little) would love to make some time to futz with that some more. -- just a nice way of saying that I'd love to have those 2 app run on the powerbook, but there is currently no port of either of these too PPC.
Scanner
Umax Astra 610S
I have installed sane and xsane, but have not gotten it to work. One of the built-in drivers wouild not compile - I commented it out in the Makefile and the rest of the package compiled. Linux can see the Astra, xsane segfaults after I select the printer device. Looking into device names and permissions. I have created a group called scanner for all the users who would want to use the scanner and give perms to that group on the generic scsi device /dev/sge or sgf depending on SCSI id.
Printer
I have a HP 855C Deskjet (color) and it works (with the 8500). I have only tried to print text so far. I would like to someday set the 8500 as a print server for.
Wacom tablet
I have some c code that is supposed to be a wacom drive. I'm not sure what to do with it exactly. I think the code is nicely documented so maybe I can figure something out from there. (I don't know that much c)
CD-ROM Burner
Currently lent to a friend. I should be getting back any day now....
PM8500 Video-in
Using video-for-linux and planb driver I sometimes watch TV on my linux desktop. I use xawtv to view and get input from my cable box (which I control by remote control to chage channels etc) Kernel video stuff are loadable modules. xawtv tends to segfault when I run it the first time, and only runs a root. From time to time this just crashes everything real hard - forcing me to reboot!
Zip Drive
Works like a charm.
On the 8500 I have a Global Village 56k modem and the 8500's build in ethernet.
I have installed a caching DNS on this machine. I'm not at all sure if it is working 100% right.
I have installed ipchains and all the ip masq stuff, though I have yet to fully understand it.
I have to alter my /etc/hosts file when I want to use ppp, and then change it back when I want to use eth0. I thought that this was because of some security thing at my isp (earthlink) but lately I suspect that is because of installed but not understood firewall stuff. I have to do this on the 8500 and the PowerBook. I have not tried in on the pentium recently (since I switched to this ISP - I'm also not sure if I have firewall running on the Pentium)
UPDATE I no longer have to do this. I have gotten IP Masq working too and I suspect that there was some connection.
The Powerbook easily switches from home network to work network using alias of eth0. ppp works nicely (except for the hosts file thing) There is an infared port on this machine too. I could try to sync my palm.
sshd I have a hard time getting sshd to start from /etc/rc.d/init script. it reports OK but does not start. starts fine when root runs sshd.
sshon the 8500 - scp sometimes segfaults.
X/gtk ??I think this might be a direct result of the flakey video card but If I uncheck the video box on BootX, then all the gtk widgets are eithe rall black or all white. I should check versions numbers. Should be getting the new LinuxPPC 2000 disks this week.