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gentoo emerge using SOCKS server

emerge tsocks, if you can’t download the package using emerge because you are behind a firewall, manually download the package using your web browser and put it under /usr/portage/distfiles, then type the emerge command again.

once installed, create a new tsocks configuration: /etc/socks/tsocks.conf

local = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0

path {

reaches = 0.0.0.0/0

server = 192.168.2.1

server_type [...]

Gentoo on the Mac mini

I can’t remember the first time I bought my Apple, the only mac in my life (maybe 15 years ago? a macintosh classic II?). I should admit that the products they make are state-of-the-art personal computing platform. However, I’ve never been attempted using their MAC OSX. Even now for my Mac mini, the first day [...]