• Bookmarks Sychronizer for Firefox (supports plain FTP as well!)

• Download 'yamb' thunderbird extension from http://globs.org/index.php?lng=en

• Again it starts in Thunderbird with the yamb extension.

Notify sound on new mail

Notify message window on new mail

• Again it starts in Thunderbird with the yamb extension.
• Get my notify script here: newmailnotify
• Place it in some directory (e.g. ~/bin/) and make it executable (chmod u+x newmailnotify)
• Open the file in an editor and make sure in the first line that the location of the wish interpreter is correct.
• In Thunderbird, under 'Extensions', configure yamb, make the command something like this: ~/bin/newmailnotify

Tweaking

Custom sound on new mail

• Download 'yamb' thunderbird extension from http://globs.chez.tiscali.fr/moz_extensions/yamb.html
• Change the new mail command to: audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/bubbles.au
• Switch off dtmail (i.e., remove it from the workspace manager) to avoid duplicate beeps.

The latest version of yamb actually calls the following command:

  audioplay /usr/demo/SOUND/sounds/bubbles.au "Arthur van Dam" "Re: Mailpiepje"

Synchronize bookmarks/files/agenda between your workplaces

What do I use?

• A WebDAV/subversion server at the computer science department.
• Bookmarks Sychronizer for Firefox (supports plain FTP as well!)
• Subversion for synchronizing files. See also the above subversion instructions. It's the best software thing that's happened to me in the last two years.
• Mozilla Sunbird, a standalone calendar that supports calendar publishing/sharing/synchronizing using WebDAV. Thunderbird's address book is not integrated yet, but I'm waiting for the Lightning calendar plugin for Thunderbird.

WebDAV? URLS?

• The bookmarks synchronizer extension wants a separate server and location value. Server: https://svn.myserver.foo, location: /repos/myrepo/bookmarks.xml.
• Sunbird wants the full URL at once: https://svn.myserver.foo/repos/myrepo/mycalendar.ics. (This file is in the iCal format). I don't let sunbird publish changes automatically, but do it by hand at the end of a day, just to avoid numerous commit email messages.

How Bookmarks Synchronizer does merging

• When you switch on the 'merge new data' check box, remotely deleted bookmarks are not deleted locally, but local additions are maintained and new remote additions are of course also added locally. Remote modifications to existing bookmarks are applied to local bookmarks based on the bookmark name. So, if you've locally changed the title of a bookmark, a new one will created to contain the remote mods.
• When the 'merge' check box is unchecked, the remote xml file is simply downloaded to your local system and it replaces your local bookmarks entirely. So, be careful with this one.

C_INCLUDE_PATH=$PKGROOT/jpeg/current/include:$C_INCLUDE_PATH export C_INCLUDE_PATH

PERL5LIB=$LIBROOT/perl5:$PERL5LIB; export PERL5LIB PERL5LIB=$LIBROOT/perl5/sun4-solaris:$PERL5LIB; export PERL5LIB

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/jpeg/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/zlib/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libpng/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/tiff/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libogg/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libvorbis/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libast/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/expat/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

bibutils, (convert BibTeX, RIS, XML)

BibTool (searching, filtering, prettyprinting BibTeX files)

Here's how I installed it (note!: the prefix in ~/www is only because I use it as a cgi as well. Change the configure call below to your own needs)

  wget ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/bibtool/BibTool-2.48.tar.gz
  tar zxvf BibTool-2.48.tar.gz
  cd BibTool-2.48
  ./configure --prefix=~/www/cgi-bin/BibTool
  make
  make install

Xpdf, PDF viewer with reload

displayFontT1 Times-Roman           /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021003l.pfb
... and more of these lines ...

fontDir /usr/local/texlive8/texmf/fonts/type1/bakoma
psPaperSize      A4

New method: plugin xmmms-cdread

For the rest:

  wget ftp://mud.stack.nl/pub/OuterSpace/willem/xmms-cdread-0.14a.tar.gz
  tar zxvf xmms-cdread-0.14a.tar.gz 
  cd xmms-cdread-0.14a
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/xmms/current
  make
  make install

Old method: configuring the xmms-builtin plugin

libogg

libvorbis

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/xmms-1.2.6.tar.gz
  tar zxvf xmms-1.2.6.tar.gz
  cd xmms-1.2.6
<nop>

bibutils, one of the many...

I downloaded the latest version from http://www.scripps.edu/~cdputnam/software/bibutils/, modified the Makefile, manually created the install-dir and ran make and make install.

The required mods in Makefile:

  ## SunOS5
  MTYPE=SunOS
  #POSTFIX=_sunos5
  CC = CC=gcc
  RANLIB= RANLIB="echo Skipping ranlib"

  # (comment all linux-related lines)

  INSTALLDIR=${PKGROOT}/bibutils/3.12

Audio CD support

An additional problem: I cannot set the output-option to the standard solaris audio output, so now it only sends audio-output to the headphone jack of the cdrom drive itself. So until know, I did not gain a thing...

./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/xmms/1.2.6 --with-libxml-prefix=$PKGROOT/libxml2/current --with-included-gettext=$PKGROOT/gettext/current --with-cdda-device=/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0 --with-ogg-prefix=$PKGROOT/libogg/current --with-vorbis-prefix=$PKGROOT/libvorbis/current

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libogg/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libvorbis/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

XMMS, Tune it up!

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/xmms-1.2.6.tar.gz
  tar zxvf xmms-1.2.6.tar.gz
  cd xmms-1.2.6
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/xmms/1.2.6 \
    --with-libxml-prefix=$PKGROOT/libxml2/current \
    --with-included-gettext=$PKGROOT/gettext/current
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/xmms
  ln -s 1.2.6/ current

I'm not sure about the --with-included-gettext argument, and I also need to rebuild the whole thing as to enable cd audio support (and possibly Vorbis Ogg), but at least MP3 playback is working without problems now.

Tip: Use audiocontrol to disable speaker playback and enable headphone playback only.

Autotools

M4

  wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.2.tar.gz
  tar zxvf m4-1.4.2.tar.gz 
  cd m4-1.4.2
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/m4/1.4.2
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/m4
  ln -s 1.4.2/ current

autoconf

  wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
  tar zxvf autoconf-2.59.tar.gz
  cd autoconf-2.59
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/autoconf/2.59
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/autoconf
  ln -s 2.59/ current

automake

  wget ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.9.tar.gz
  tar zxvf automake-1.9.tar.gz
  cd automake-1.9
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/automake/1.9
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/automake
  ln -s 1.9/ current

Screen

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/screen-4.0.2.tar.gz
  tar zxvf screen-4.0.2.tar.gz
  cd screen-4.0.2
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/screen/4.0.2 \
    --enable-colors256 \
    --with-sys-screenrc=$ETCROOT/screenrc
  make
  make install
  cp etc/etcscreenrc $ETCROOT/screenrc
  cd $PKGROOT/screen
  ln -s 4.0.2/ current

Tuning Solaris

This page is not too interesting for visitors, I mainly keep it as a scrapbook to remember settings and commands. Here is what I did:

software for Solaris

bash by default

  chsh dam `which bash`

bash configuration

  PKGROOT=/local/dam/pkg; export PKGROOT
  PATH=$PKGROOT/coreutils/current/bin:$PATH
  PATH=$PKGROOT/tar/current/bin:$PATH
  PATH=$PKGROOT/grep/current/bin:$PATH
  PATH=$PKGROOT/nano/current/bin:$PATH
  PATH=$PKGROOT/subversion/current/bin:$PATH
  export PATH
  if [ "$PS1" ]; then
    PS1='\[\033[0;31m\][\u@\h:\w]\$\[\033[0m\] '
    eval `dircolors -b`
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    LANG="en_US"
    SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
    SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
  fi

Become a local root

  PKGROOT=/local/dam/pkg

coreutils

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/coreutils-4.5.4.tar.gz
  tar zxvf coreutils-4.5.4.tar.gz 
  gunzip coreutils-4.5.4.tar.gz 
  tar xvf coreutils-4.5.4.tar 
  cd coreutils-4.5.4
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/coreutils/4.5.4
  make
  chmod u+x config/*-sh
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/coreutils
  ln -s 4.5.4 current

More versatile tar

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/tar-1.14.tar.gz
  gunzip tar-1.14.tar.gz 
  tar xvf tar-1.14.tar 
  cd tar-1.14
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/tar/1.14
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/tar
  ln -s 1.14 current

Recursive grepping

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/grep-2.5.tar.gz
  tar zxvf grep-2.5.tar.gz 
  cd grep-2.5
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/grep/2.5
  make
  cd $PKGROOT/grep/
  ln -s 2.5 current

top

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/top-3.5.tar.gz
  tar zxvf top-3.5.tar.gz
  cd top-3.5
  ./Configure # enter appr. values, specify a $PKGROOT/top/3.5/bin dir etc.
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/top/
  ln -s 3.5 current

nano, for the quick editing

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/nano-1.2.4.tar.gz
  tar zxvf nano-1.2.4.tar.gz
  cd nano-1.2.4
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/nano/1.2.4 --enable-nanorc
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/nano
  ln -s 1.2.4 current

NEdit, for the real editing

subversion, CVS is dead!

Requirement: libxml2

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/libxml2-2.6.4.tar.gz
  tar zxvf libxml2-2.6.4.tar.gz 
  cd libxml2-2.6.4
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/libxml2/2.6.4
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/libxml2/
  ln -s 2.6.4/ current

Requirement: OpenSSL with shared libraries

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz
  tar zxvf openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz
  cd openssl-0.9.7d
  ./Configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/openssl/0.9.7d --openssldir=$PKGROOT/openssl/0.9.7d \
    shared solaris-sparcv8-gcc
  make
  mkdir $PKGROOT/openssl
  mkdir $PKGROOT/openssl/0.9.7
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/openssl/
  ln -s 0.9.7d current

Finally, let's build!

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/subversion-1.0.5.tar.gz
  tar zxvf subversion-1.0.5.tar.gz 
  cd subversion-1.0.5
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/subversion/1.05 --without-apache --without-apxs \
    --without-berkeley-db --with-editor=nano --with-ssl \
    --with-libs=$PKGROOT/openssl/current:$PKGROOT/libxml2/current
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/subversion
  ln -s 1.0.5 current

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