Code Craft had an extremely intuitive post about Freedom Languages vs Safety Languages. He covered what is popular vs what is fringe, where the party-lines are drawn and (imo) almost made an analogy for safety within the USA.
I’ll sum it up: You’re safe or free but rarely absolutely both.
So of course, me, […]

Following an upgrade guide on gentoo’s lovely doc site. GCC was majorly out of date (3.3 to 4.1.1) and hopefully you can still read this after all is said and done.
Right now, apache is in a weird state and I need to emerge a ton of crap:

# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
* Apache2 has detected a […]

Following an interview question that was extremely hard I went to `man lstat’ and tried to code up a test just based on system documentation. It was not entirely successful, however after a tip-off from an online resource I came up with this.

Gentoo 2006.0 was released today. Of note, is a new GUI installer on the live cd. Here are some screenshots of the installer. (click read on)

I ran into a weird error with Thunderbird. When I would reply to all in an email, some people were CC’d. When I hit send, I got a relay error. I restarted courier-imap and did all sorts of stuff and eventually decided to update all my mail software on my gentoo server.
It was […]

When you paste a block of text into a Putty window, many times you’ll get an increasing number of leading tabs. Not so if you use gnome-terminal (IIRC). Quite annoying in a Windows world.
Strip tabs and spaces out from current position to the end of the file with:

:.,$s/^[<tab>]*\s*//

Or perhaps you only want a […]

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. […]

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 […]