Journey's End

Apr 28
2012

PSA: Using Lyx With Native OS X Spellchecker

Lyx 2.0 and onwards on OS X will use spellchecker provided by the OS X. Note however that the language it will use for spellchecking is determined by the document's language setting, not your system language setting.

Furthermore, in version 2.0.3, if you change your document's language …

ts=11:48 tags=[lyx,software,oss,PSA]

Jan 27
2012

Getting pyglet setup in OS X 10.7.2

  1. Create a virtual env and activate it
  2. hg clone https://code.google.com/p/pyglet/
  3. pushd pyglet; python setup.py install
  4. popd
  5. easy_install  pyobjc==2.3 # the ==2.3 is required as of 2012-01-27, or pyobjc-core will not install
  6. python -c "import pyglet" # this step should not fail 

Cheers,
Steve …

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Jun 15
2010

Sep 21
2009

Sep 21
2008

Jul 24
2008

grub, xfs, debian

Running grub-install with a XFS partition will likely fail - there is a reason lilo is used when XFS is root! The issue is grub-install creates the stage files in /boot/grub, which grub then expects to find when it accesses the disk directly using its own file system drivers. For …

Jul 16
2008

Mar 28
2008

eeepc, likes and dislikes

Likes:

  • nice and small

  • all the hardware works, including sleep/suspend

  • runs debian based OS by default

  • can run an external monitor at decent resolution

Dislikes:

  • uses fastinit which only boots into single user mode, so user "user" is always logged in. Endless frustration playing with X11 startup in vain …

Jan 06
2008

Finally, PIC under Linux made Easy

I have been looking for software to work with my PIC-PG2 programmer under Linux for a while now. Previously I have been using windows and PICPROG which while nice, still involved messing with windows and stuff. The situation back then (around 2006) was bleak - there were no up to-date and …

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