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New Home

Gustavo Felisberto — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:47:01 +0000

After many years running on my home server this blog is now hosted at lylix. I went to them because it was the only Gentoo/Funtoo VPS provider I could find:)

If something does not work, please drop me a note

A Wiki for Gentoo

Gustavo Felisberto — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:40:57 +0000

A long long time ago I voiced about the need for a wiki in the Gentoo project. In those days Gentoo-Wiki was starting up.
For some reason or other people inside the project felt that having the users producing documentation was a bad idea. For some other reasons that I never understood the gentoo-wiki.com becamed a banned issue, and Gentoo developers were advised not to mention, and not to link to him. I wrote an extensive article about Gentoo on the Efika board that got some raised eyebrows because it was written on the Wiki.

Now Gentoo Wiki has been down for a few days. And according to the backup page it does not seem a fix is going to happen soon.

If we had taken this project under an umbrella a long time ago our users would not be missing on this very important resource.

Struts 2 under IntelliJ IDEA 8.0M1

Gustavo Felisberto — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:42:56 +0000

If you like IDEA and use Struts 2 you can be happy to know that 8.0 release comes with a new Struts 2 plugin. There is a small tutorial on how to use it but it has some errors.
First the Action class should extend ActionSupport hand have proper setter methods:

package hello;
import com.opensymphony.xwork2.ActionSupport;
public class HelloWorld extends ActionSupport {
    private String username;
    private String message;
    public String getMessage(){
        return message;
    }
    public String execute(){
        message = "Hello, " + username + ".";
        return SUCCESS;
    }
    public String getUsername() {
        return username;
    }
    public void setUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
    }
}

Second the JSP file can have a proper action:

< %@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" language="java" %>
< %@ taglib prefix="s" uri="/struts-tags" %>
>
  >>Simple jsp page>>
  >
		Struts 2 Message:  :property value="message" default="Guest." />
		 :form method="GET" action="HelloWorld">
			Enter your name: :textfield name="username" />
			 :submit value="Submit" />
		>
  >
>

And finally struts.xml can have the Action declared without the ugly unRESTFUL .action:

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
< !DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC
  "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 2.0//EN"
  "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.0.dtd">
 
>
     name="/" extends="struts-default">
		 name="HelloWorld" class="hello.HelloWorld">
			 name="success">/index.jsp>
		>
	>
>

I really like IDEA when it comes to Java codding, and I can live with the quirks of the Struts 2 support. But one thing that makes me steam is the fact that I have to un-deploy and deploy the application for each change I make. That steals me hours every week.

Skype + Video

Gustavo Felisberto — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:12:27 +0000

For some days now Skype has released a new public release that has video support. Since day 0 the Gentoo users that were running the testing version could have an upgrade. A few more weeks and if no strange bugs pop up it will be marked as stable software.

So if you are still running the old skype and want to use the new one:
emerge --sync echo "net-im/skype" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords emerge skype

Gentoo on the Dell D630

Gustavo Felisberto — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:09:06 +0000

This is just a pointer to my guide about Gentoo on the Dell D630.

Skype + Video now in Linux

Gustavo Felisberto — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:37:59 +0000

Skype just released the first beta version of their Linux client with video support. I already added it to the Gentoo Portage, but as it is a Beta release you’ll have to package.unmask it:

emerge --sync echo net-im/skype >> /etc/portage/package.unmask echo "net-im/skype **" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords emerge -av skype

As Skype beta tester I’ve been using these releases for some time and must say that I’m quite happy with the result, just a few quirks with some webcams, but nothing to serious, and maybe now there will be a good motive to pressure for nice drivers.

If you have any problems fell free to bug me and I’ll try to give you a hand. My Skype name is gustavofelisberto

Wildfire 3.2.0

Gustavo Felisberto — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:20:07 +0000

Today wildfire 3.2.0 got released and you can read the official announce here. But is my opinion that this is a premature release. If not lets see, in december 17 to manage SSL certificates under wildfire is considered a problem. They even comment on the fact that Jabber Software Foundation (JSF) has become a Intermediate Certification Authority and that this will increase the number of servers and users using SSL in the Jabber network. And what happens in the 3.2.0 RC2 release: SSL is partially broken when using JSF certificates. The fix seems to be….. to remove the certificates and use self signed ones.

Proper use of SSL/TLS with good certificates needs to be standard in the XMPP Federation network. This is why this step in releasing the final version of wildfire was a premature one.

System Info

Gustavo Felisberto — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:24:14 +0000

Efika System info Only stuff under /efika are actually hosted on the efika (mod_proxy is so nice).

Pre built packages for the Efika

Gustavo Felisberto — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:17:05 +0000

There is now a PORTAGE_BINHOST for the EFIKA, just add:
PORTAGE_BINHOST=http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/ppc-efika/
to your /etc/make.conf and start using it. This repository will contain the system and some extra packages built with:
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=603e -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

Remember that in order to use these packages you have to do emerge -g or emerge -G.

Christmas Present for Efika Users

Gustavo Felisberto — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:35:40 +0000

Do you want a stage 4 for your Efika? Then go to my Efika page and grab it. Please do not open bugs about it. Either mail me or try to find me on IRC.