Category: Software
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Fedora Core / RHEL don’t seem to come with up-to-date versions of Scalar::Util
I ran into this problem once before on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux machine, and now I am having the same problem on my Fedora Core (7 I think) machine. The problem is that CPAN is unable to install various things, in particular Bundle::CPAN, because: You don’t have the XS version of Scalar::Util I have […]
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SELinux Problems, solutions
In general, I really like the idea of SELinux. It conceptually allows you to specify users, roles, and types for files and then checks against those conditions when something tries to access the files. It will only allow users that match the user condition, roles that match the role condition, and types that match the […]
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Using the Gimp to automate “cleaning” of scanned B&W images
Sometimes I play around with translating manga for fun. It doesn’t really seem to get me much of anything except for lots of requests from punks to translate their favorite naruto doujinshi, but it is fun and relaxing with the bonus that I learn some cool casual Japanese. I like to translate with a program […]
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Installing the Perl Technorati API implementation WebService::Technorati on OSX via CPAN
This will be yet another entertaining dive into installing software on OSX. For today’s task, I want to install the Perl WebService::Technorati API interface to the Technorati blog search / aggregation site. Usually, I do something like $ perl -MCPAN -e shell to get a CPAN shell, and then install WebService::Technorati and hit “yes” when […]
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Added SPF support to fugutabetai.com mailserver
Using the Postfix and SPF howto over on howtoforge.com I added SPF support to the Fugutabetai.com mail servers. It looks like that is working well, so after a few weeks go by, I’ll try to remember to look at the logs and see if SPF has been useful at all at rejecting spam from known […]
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Emulating Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on the GP2X
Not too long ago, I wrote about my old-school CRPG party-based gaming obsession. Randomly coming across a version of Wizardry I-III for cell phones in Japan rekindled my interest, but sadly my cell phone “terminal” （端末） is not compatible so I can’t play it. It was very aggravating, because I know that there is a […]
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Installing Retexturizer plugin for Gimp on OSX
Resynthesizer is an amazing plugin for the Gimp, an amazing open-source photo editing program. Since I usually run OSX, I like to use Gimp.app, but it does not include the Resynthesizer plugin. Gimpshop, a version of Gimp modified to be more like photoshop, is supposed to include Resynthesizer, but the version that I downloaded did […]
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Updated referrer tracking code
This is an update to a previous post on simple referrer tracking. The original code is from justinsomnia.org. I was playing around with the referrer tracking code I use here over the past few days, and made some minor adjustments: I use a DHTML slider to set the range of days over which to track, […]
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Getting Japanese input in UTF8 to work in LaTeX on OSX
I have installed LaTeX via fink, and when writing a paper, came across the problem that Japanese just does not work in my environment. This is a bit of a problem as I’m writing about some analysis of English, Japanese, and Chinese data. So I’m going to try to get Japanese input working in my […]
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Chasen on OSX 10.4
I found myself needing to do some Japanese morphological analysis today, which usually means either Chasen or Kabocha. Kabocha is supposed to be the new hottness, running fast, but a quick search didn’t turn up any precompiled packages for it on OSX. ChaSen, on the other hand, is available in DarwinPorts, but since I went […]