On a slashdot thread I was discussing whether I should roll my own data structure or try to use one of the many, many Sun data structures.
Someone recommended this book.

I’m sure you have seen something like this when you have connected to a ssh host.

The authenticity of host ‘host (1.2.3.4)’ can’t be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 44:99:ff:33:66:88:cc:66:aa:22:00:00:ee:11:99:33.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?

Great. Now what? What to do with that cryptic garbage up top? Log into the box or […]

No joke. Here’s a snippet out of an E15k manual.

Internal SRAM protection inside the UltraSPARC III Cu CPU. With higherdensity CPUs and lower-core voltages, SRAM cells have become more vulnerable to bit flips from cosmic-ray disturbances. Single-bit errors for the majority of the internal SRAMs are detected and are recoverable.

I’m sure it happens. […]

Researching this Spring Framework. Most interesting so far is it’s touting of being modular. As in, you might only use it for a single feature and it wouldn’t be bloated.

I’ve updated Gnome 2.8 to 2.10 on two other boxes. The third box (which may have had lots of unstable packages on it) is complaining. When I `emerge gnome`, gnome-games fails with:
game.o(.text+0xa19): In function `bj_game_ensure_config_dir_exists(char const*)’:
: undefined reference to `g_mkdir(char const*, int)’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [blackjack] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory […]

- they rearranged some of the main menu bar items,more logical now
- you can mount volumes over ssh, that is just crazy. I was looking at thumbnails on my server at home through ssh. Insanely useful, although I can’t figure out how to text edit in read/write mode.
- video player
- ripper
- many other […]

emerge world updates every package you have to the latest version that’s available via source. Read on for a screendump of tastiness.

Over a weekend I had the fun task of rebuilding two Sun Cluster hosts as standalone servers (Sun Cluster wasn’t great for us). I rebuilt one box and noticed after encapsulation that is complained about the ufs log on /. It was weird but didn’t cause any problems.
The 2nd identical box didn’t go […]

Distcc is a distributed C/C++ compiler. You can easily use a bunch of machines’ power to compile stuff. The setup isn’t bad at all. It’s just a non-root network service.
Gentoo.org has some nice instructions on setting up distcc for builds. Here, we have 2x Pentium 3 machines and 1x dual xeon […]

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