Today I spent a few hours updating my installed ports for FreeBSD. Using the portupgrade command almost everything went as smooth as can be but it failed on the Xorg client and Xterm. This may have something to do with the fact that I had those two running during the upgrade… I’m nut sure but …
Author Archives: basp
Lisp
After getting Slime with CMUCL I wanted it to work in XP Professional on my company laptop too. So after fooling around with Cygwin and it’s GNU Emacs and CLISP packages to no avail I switched to the Win-32 binaries of both Emacs and CLISP. I apparently got as far as Peter Seibel – who …
Scroll
Here’s a link to get your mouse’s scroll wheel working in GNU Emacs. It might also work for other Emacsen but there’s no information on it nor have I tested it out.
Slime,
After trying to first get Slime 1.2.1 and later the CVS version to play nice with SBCL I’ve given up. Slime 1.2.1 did run but some things just did not work (C-c C-c for instance). The CVS version of Slime did not start up at all with SBCL so I’m now trying out CMUCL and …
The
So now it’s reasonably late and I’m getting pretty strunken and I’m still messing around with company code… This can’t be good. At least I must be sane though as I’m able to post this. See. There is is… Well, it will be when I hit the nice looking button below… Yes, my friend – …
Work
Damn… Just can’t control myself… Must refactor code… No work… Work! No work! Work! I promise I will not implement anything useful ok?
At
Some people just bring out the best in me… Usually I take my work home with me. That is, after I arrive home my laptop has usually rebooted before I even take off my coat. However, today I’ve lost the spirit for the current project because “the powers that be” deny us the opportunity to …
Araneida
I tried to get this lisp web server running a few days ago but to no avail. However, it seems I’m currently “in the zone” because after getting Apache up and running earlier I now managed to also get Araneida to run (relatively easy it was). Again, thanks to a little help from google and …
Apache
Mmm… I didn’t expect to have these troubles getting Apache 2.2.0 to run on FreeBSD. At first, I couldn’t even get it to build because it failed fetching an image (gif) file. So I updated the ports collection and luckely this did the trick. The rest of the install went fine but I couldn’t get …
Too
If the desired behaviour is so complex that it cannot be reasonably described in ordinary language then how can we expect our users to actually use and administer the system?