My experience using it on a Mac was very straightforward. First, I download and installed MacTeX. It is a huge download, more than 1GB. It may work if you get the smaller versions, but I never tested.

Then, I was as simple as downloading ABNTex and unpacking it on ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex . This directory structure may not exist, so you may need to create the folders after Library. 

Done. It worked fine for my monograph latex files.

Well, I just found Vim Tip #20, which teaches us how to change the folder path for swp files. This way, all swap files for Vim (and, of course, gVim) will be saved on the specified directory.

The comand is :

set directory=/path/to/dir,/path/to/another/dir

There is also “set backupdir=/path/to/dir” to move those something.rb~

Hope this helps you as much as it helped me!

I don’t know why, but I like to keep things light. rtorrent is just that: a bit torrent client that runs on the command line. But it’s not like a wget, that you run, and watch the output. It is ncurses bases, so you will have a user interface, just not graphic. On Ubuntu, it is on the repositories, so you can apt-get install rtorrent and you’re ready to go!

Here are some tips on how to use it:

First of all, you WILL, some time, want to exit rtorrent. Don’t try vi-style here. To exit, just type CTRL + Q. Simple right?

Opening a torrent for download:

1. type “rtorrent  my_torrent_file.torrent” if you are not already inside the app OR
2. type ENTER on the main interface to  get the open “dialog”: it has TAB completion, so you don’t have to remember the hole path.

Starting the Download

• If you openned the torrent using the first option, it will start STOPPED. To start it, select it using your keyboard arrows. A few asterisks will be shown to indicate wich torrent is currently selected.  Type Ctrl+S to start the download.

Information about the download:

• You can see more detailed info about each running torrent by selecting it (with the up and down arrows) and pressing the RIGHT arrow. It will show you a new screen, where you can, again, use the arrows to move. To return to the main screen, just keep pressing the LEFT arrow till you are there.

These are some basic usage tips. If you want to became the rtorrent guru (I just want to download a few files), I suggest you visit this website, a great blog from K Mandla, where I learned these things I’m passing to you. Or you can go straight to the RTorrent user guide.

1. Go to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins

2. Do a ‘ls -l’ so that you can see where the link points to

3. Now, create links on /opt/swiftfox/plugins to the original files

Tip: ln receives the target and then the name for the link (I always misplace them)

Example:

Giving ls -l you find out that the java plugin (firefox-javaplugin.so) is in /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so. So you do a

ln -s /etc/alternatives/firefox-javaplugin.so /opt/swiftfox/plugins/

Swiftfox will automatically use the new plugins.

1) First, include UNIVERSE on your sources.list. It is located on /etc/apt/sources.list. If you are unsure, take a look at this web-site. It may help you out. Remember to sudo, or be root to do everything

2) Then update your package list and upgrade your machine.

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade


3) Install the build-essential package. It has the most-used tools to compile programs from source.

apt-get install build-essential


4) Install ruby and everything it needs.

apt-get install ruby1.8 ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 rdoc1.8 libyaml-ruby libzlib-ruby libopenssl-ruby


5) Create simbolic links for ruby. The installation made before create binaries with unfriendly names (e.g. ruby1.8). So, we create links to be able to use “ruby” and “irb” from the console:

ln -s /usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/ruby
ln -s /usr/bin/irb1.8 /usr/bin/irb


6) Download and install RubyGems

cd ~
mkdir ruby_install/ruby_gems
cd ruby_install/ruby_gems
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11289/rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
tar xvzf rubygems-0.9.0.tgz
cd rubygems-0.9.0
ruby setup.rb


7) Install Rails with RubyGems

gem install rails --include-dependencies

PS: Sometimes, on machines behind network proxies, the above command will not work. On this case, you can manually install each of Rails components. They can be downloaded from rubyforge.org and must be installed on this order:

• Rake
• ActiveSupport
• ActiveRecord
• ActionPack
• ActionMailer
• ActionWebService
• Rails

8 ) Install RedCloth if you plan on using textilize.

gem install redcloth


9) Now, it’s time to install FastCGI

apt-get install libfcgi libfcgi-dev libfcgi-ruby1.8
gem install fcgi


10) Install MySQL client libraries (if you are using MySQL)

apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev libmysql-ruby1.8
gem install mysql

PS: When gem install asks you whitch version of mysql to install, just choose the greater version number for your system.

11) Install lighttdp

apt-get install lighttpd


12) Save a backup copy of your /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf

13) Use this lighttpd.conf. Remember to change var.railsdir
server.modules = ( “mod_rewrite”, “mod_accesslog”, “mod_fastcgi”, “mod_compress”, “mod_expire” )

server.pid-file = “/var/run/lighttpd.pid”

var.railsdir = “/home/web/test”

server.error-handler-404 = “/dispatch.fcgi”
server.document-root = var.railsdir + “/public/”

server.errorlog = var.railsdir + “/log/lighttpd.error.log”
accesslog.filename = var.railsdir + “/log/lighttpd.access.log”

url.rewrite = ( “^/$” => “index.html”, “^([^.]+)$” => “$1.html” )

compress.filetype = ( “text/plain”, “text/html”, “text/css”, “text/javascript” )
compress.cache-dir = var.railsdir + “/tmp/cache”

expire.url = ( “/favicon.ico” => “access 3 days”,
“/images/” => “access 3 days”,
“/stylesheets/” => “access 3 days”,
“/javascripts/” => “access 3 days” )

# Change *-procs to 2 if you need to use Upload Progress or other tasks that
# *need* to execute a second request while the first is still pending.
fastcgi.server = ( “.fcgi” => ( “localhost” => (
“min-procs” => 4,
“max-procs” => 4,
“socket” => var.railsdir + “/tmp/sockets/fcgi.socket”,
“bin-path” => var.railsdir + “/public/dispatch.fcgi”,
“bin-environment” => ( “RAILS_ENV” => “production” )
) ) )

mimetype.assign = (
“.css” => “text/css”,
“.gif” => “image/gif”,
“.htm” => “text/html”,
“.html” => “text/html”,
“.jpeg” => “image/jpeg”,
“.jpg” => “image/jpeg”,
“.js” => “text/javascript”,
“.png” => “image/png”,
“.swf” => “application/x-shockwave-flash”,
“.txt” => “text/plain”
)

# Making sure file uploads above 64k always work when using IE or Safari
# For more information, see http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/ticket/360
$HTTP["useragent"] =~ “^(.*MSIE.*)|(.*AppleWebKit.*)$” {
server.max-keep-alive-requests = 0
}

14) Set adequate permissions on your application’s folders:

chmod -R 775 log/
chmod -R 775 public/
chmod -R 775 tmp/


15) You’re done.

There’s a small catch on this stuff: You won’t be able to /etc/init.d/services/lighttpd stop or restart. For some reason, lighttpd loose it’s connection with init.d, and you can only stop it sending TERM signals from the command line:

$ sudo ps -A | grep lighttpd
1234 lighttpd
$ sudo kill -9 1234


Using  server.pid-file = “/var/run/lighttpd.pid” will take care of the job! Config example updated. Thanks, raul.
That’s it. I hope it helped you.
Best