Ever wonder why, when you SSH into your Unix/Linux workstation and view manpages, use curses applications, etc, the display seems to be garbled?
This is because of a font misunderstanding between your terminal program (mine is PuTTY) and the ncurses package. Ncurses now uses UTF-8, so make sure your terminal program is set to interpret the incoming character set as UTF-8 instead of the default ISO-8559-1. In Putty, this should come under Window->Translation in the settings dialog for a configured session.
Monday, March 27, 2006
March 25
I've caught up with the hype and installed Fedora Core 5 (released March 20). Thanks to LUGS, the Averse mirror is back up. I lent my DVD to someone else, and so wrote the boot image to a thumb drive, booted from it and did a network installation from my other machine, on which I have mounted the DVD ISO on a webserver.
After a few false starts (not enough space for upgrade, cannot find repository data, etc), I finally got the installation process underway and went to sleep, and by morning, it was done! Not bad for 3-4 hours work.
Looking forward to trying out Xen on it. There is a lot to keep up with since much has changed since Redhat 9!!!
I'm getting keeping the filesystem of RH9 which I have painstakingly built-up over the months in a separate directory. I can chroot to the RH9 directory, mount proc, mount --bind /home ... and all should still be fine! I hope, since I have not tried it out.
Need to reinstall a lot of things, like updatedd, rlocate, etc, gosh.
Try out the OpenWRT source code! It is cool!
I've caught up with the hype and installed Fedora Core 5 (released March 20). Thanks to LUGS, the Averse mirror is back up. I lent my DVD to someone else, and so wrote the boot image to a thumb drive, booted from it and did a network installation from my other machine, on which I have mounted the DVD ISO on a webserver.
After a few false starts (not enough space for upgrade, cannot find repository data, etc), I finally got the installation process underway and went to sleep, and by morning, it was done! Not bad for 3-4 hours work.
Looking forward to trying out Xen on it. There is a lot to keep up with since much has changed since Redhat 9!!!
I'm getting keeping the filesystem of RH9 which I have painstakingly built-up over the months in a separate directory. I can chroot to the RH9 directory, mount proc, mount --bind /home ... and all should still be fine! I hope, since I have not tried it out.
Need to reinstall a lot of things, like updatedd, rlocate, etc, gosh.
Try out the OpenWRT source code! It is cool!
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