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Lamia

@Date: 2007-12-24 16:12:32 @Created: 2007-11-25 21:03:48
Lamia is my Santa Rosa Macbook 2.2GHz with 2GB RAM running OS X 10.5 Leopard.
The naming
1. Lamia is named after the Greek daemoness.
2. Lamia had a vicious sexual appetite that matched her cannibalistic appetite for children. She was notorious for being a vampiric spirit and loved sucking men's blood.
3. It is roughly related to the name of my iBook G4, dubbed Lilith.
Unfixed issues
1. Xee doesn't work.
2. growlnotify doesn't work all the time.
3. DjVu Browser Plugin for Mac OS X Leopard doesn't work.
4. ~~PDF files generated by dvipdfm render with the wrong font in Preview.~~
  1. Workaround: File--Revert (or Ctrl-R in the Safari plugin) occasionally works.
  2. Seems to be fixed in 10.5.1.
5. I need a way to make Firefox display PDF files in browser.
6. Please speak up if you can help with any of this.
Log book
1. 2007-11-21
  1. Flatten the complete system and reinstall Leopard.
    ...
  2. Install iWork.
  3. Set font smooth to medium.
  4. Set the MTU to 1492.
  5. Set the hostname to lamia.
  6. Enable SSH.
  7. Disable MS Trebuchet and Verdana.
  8. Install xcodetools, dashcode, webobjects (found on the first disk).
  9. Disable Safari's so-called "safe" opening.
  10. Install macports.
    ...
  11. Limit scrollback of Terminal.app.
  12. In Keyboard :: Modifier, keys map Caps to Control and make the F-keys behave as standard.
  13. In International :: Input Menu, enable char palette and keyboard viewer.
  14. Move the Dock to the left, use the scale effect for minimizing.
  15. In Expose, put the Dashboard on F4.
  16. Make the Battery show percentage.
  17. Remove the Bluetooth menu icon and disable it.
  18. Install X-Chat 0.13.
    ...
  19. Port install SSHKeychain.
2. 2007-11-22
  1. Rsync all data from the old iBook, lilith.
    ...
3. 2007-11-23
  1. Install MenuMeters.
  2. Install Flip4Mac.
  3. Install ByteController.
  4. Set the Desktop background.
    ...
  5. Port install curl.
  6. Port install wget.
  7. Install Temperature Monitor Lite.
    ...
4. 2007-11-24
  1. Configure Postfix.
    ...
  2. Open iTunes for the first time.
    ...
  3. Install Skype.
  4. Port install Ghostscript.
  5. Install XiphQT.
  6. Port install TeTeX.
    ...
  7. Install NetNewsWire.
  8. Install Adium.
  9. Install Firefox.
    ...
  10. Install Emacs.
  11. w3m is broken due to boehmgc in MacPorts, these instructions work.
5. 2007-11-25
  1. Install Shiira.
  2. Install from source git.
  3. Install from source vile.
  4. Port install ispell.
  5. Port install imagemagick.
  6. Port install fortune.
  7. Port install maxima.
  8. Install Transmission.
  9. Install Twitteriffic.
6. 2007-11-26
  1. Setup Time Machine on an external Firewire drive.
  2. Install chmox.
  3. Install iStumbler.
  4. Port install gnupg.
7. 2007-11-27
  1. Port install unrar.
8. 2007-11-28
  1. Install Clutter.
9. 2007-11-30
  1. Install Pester.
  2. Port install mplayer with this patch.
10. 2007-12-01
  1. In Firefox about:config set mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false and mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to 5 for quicker scrolling.
11. 2007-12-03
  1. Install Disk Inventory X.
  2. Install iEatBrainz.
  3. Port install id3v2.
12. 2007-12-07
  1. Port install libsdl-ttf.
  2. Install from source atris.
13. 2007-12-11
  1. Port install libevent.
  2. Port install db46.
14. 2007-12-12
  1. Fix the keyboard layout.
15. 2007-12-18
  1. Port install aquaterm.
  2. Port install gnuplot.
16. 2007-12-26
  1. Port install nmap.
17. 2007-12-27
  1. Install VLC.
18. 2008-01-01
  1. Install OpenLieroX.
19. 2008-01-06
  1. Install Inkscape.
20. 2008-01-09
  1. Port install mtr.
21. 2008-01-10
  1. Port selfupdate.
  2. Port install coq.
22. 2008-01-19
  1. export LANG=en_US.utf8 to make zsh's line editor UTF8-compatible (backspace is broken else).
  2. Port install sloccount.
23. 2008-01-20
  1. Port install ragel.
24. 2008-02-04
  1. Install Skim.
25. 2008-02-17
  1. Port install gtk2.
26. 2008-02-24
  1. Port install lighttpd +ssl+cml.
27. 2008-03-01
  1. Disable the Adium overflow menu.
28. 2008-03-07
  1. Port install install ffmpeg+lame+faac+faad+xvid+x264+a52.>>
  2. Install iSquint.
29. 2008-03-18
  1. In Firefox, set browser.tabs.selectOwnerOnClose to false.
  2. Install Burn.
30. 2008-04-06
  1. Update to 10.5.2. Other than few forgotten settings, this went fine.
31. 2008-04-11
  1. Port install iftop.
32. 2008-04-15
  1. Install Firefox extension Safari View.
33. 2008-05-01
  1. Port install cmake.
  2. Port install byacc.
  3. Port install icu4c.
  4. Port install xercesc.
  5. Port install boost.
34. 2008-05-02
  1. Install DjVuLibre/DjView 4.3.
35. 2008-05-06
  1. Port install xpdf.
36. 2008-05-08
  1. Port install ctags.
37. 2008-05-18
  1. Install Flickr Uploader.
38. 2008-05-22
  1. Port install libsdl_mixer-framework.
  2. Port install libsdl-framework.
  3. Port install libsdl_image-framework.
39. 2008-05-23
  1. Port install netpbm.
40. 2008-06-12
  1. Port install allegro.
41. 2008-06-26
  1. Update Emacs to CVS HEAD. FAIL: Emacs 23.0.60 has utterly broken Carbon support, and Emacs.app with Cocoa support I couldn't merge.
  2. Install Emacs 22.2 with patches.
Programs I used obsoleted by Leopard
1. Already installed:
  1. zsh
  2. xmllint
  3. fetchmail
  4. python
  5. svn
  6. Native Tcl/Tk
2. Obsolete due to added features
  1. Safari Stand: Safari can now restore and save tab sessions itself.
  2. iTerm: Terminal.app has tabs.
  3. TeXShop: Preview.app finally reloads changed files automatically.
  4. QuickSilver: Spotlight as application launcher.