Debugging Mesa DRI for the Intel i965 on a Lenovo R61

Here I am trying to crank out something for the ICFP Programming Contest and I have a huge host of OpenGL problems with my new laptop. This stuff should come in handy for all those people out there with a Lenovo R61 running Gentoo Linux with Mesa 6.5… all two of them.

Anyhow, no math […]

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Using HaXml to make a PDF slideshow from an Inkscape SVG

I recently got a tablet to input handwritten math for slideshow presentations, but instead of using a note-taking program (Jarnal, Xournal, Gournal) I decided that I wanted the full power of image manipulation of a program like Gimp or Inkscape. Neither of these, though, has the level of support for multi-page documents that you find in […]

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Installing Gentoo on a Dell Latitude D410: USB CDROM bug

I've got a borrowed laptop from my advisor that I need to install Gentoo on. But I have no working CD burners in the house, and only oldish Gentoo CDs, which have bugs in that they don't properly initialize and wait for the USB DVD drive (the only removable media this laptop has). […]

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LaTeX editing tools

Editing LaTeX is very nice with WhizzyTeX but I seem to frequently get version/program conflicts where one or more of emacs/whizzytex/advi are unhappy. So I came across a variety of emacs helpers for writing TeX with a little less pain; I have yet to try them out so this list is as much for […]

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Lilo: "L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99″

I compiled a 2.6.16.2 kernel a while ago, and finally got around to rebooting into it. My hd config was insane so I feared rebooting - and apparently rightly so. Anyhow, I got the following unpleasant error from LILO (analogously from grub, by the way):

L 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 …

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Installing Linux on an Apple G4 iBook

Leading up to my wife going to Japan, we hacked linux onto her Apple G4 iBook. It was sweet. First I'll show you a bunch of useful stuff to see if your system is like hers, then I'll talk about specific devices.

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Internationalization with SCIM

I have SCIM and UTF-8 working smoothly with pretty much every program other than emacs. Here is a narrative of the process I went through; you can skip to the end to see immediately all of what is needed.

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