Gentoo’s epic phail
As some people already know I’ve joined the army since 2 months ago, this makes it somewhat difficult for me to keep up with the latest updates for every machine I use. Today I tried to upgrade a...
View ArticleSeverely degraded harddisk performance on sata_sil by athcool
I am writing this post to provide some statistics on athcool + sata_sil usage. The results are horrible. Athcool is a small utility, enabling/disabling Powersaving mode for AMD Athlon/Duron processors....
View Articlecommandlinefu.com random entry parser
I’ve written a small perl script to parse random entries from the extremely usefull commandlinefu.com website. Quoting from their site: Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems...
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HOWTO remotely install debian over gentoo without physical access
The Task Last year, me and comzeradd set up a Gentoo server for HELLUG according to our plot to help Gentoo conquer the world. Unfortunately Gentoo is out of HELLUG’s administration policy, all servers...
View Articleupgrading a gentoo box that hasn’t been upgraded since 2007
I was given root today in a gentoo box that nobody had upgraded since 2007. As expected the “emerge –sync; emerge -uDavt world” showed a lot of blockages. I tried to solve each one but I got stuck...
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Fosscomm 2009
Μετά από ένα τρομερό Σαββατοκύριακο στη Λάρισα γυρίσα πάλι πίσω στη Θεσσαλονίκη. Το Fosscomm 2009 ήταν πάρα πολύ καλά οργανωμένο και τα παιδιά του Linux Team ΤΕΙ Λάρισας αξίζουν πολλά συγχαρητήρια για...
View Articleivman is dead, long live halevt
It’s been a while since ivman stopped working on my Gentoo box but I never had the time nor the willingness to take a look into it. It appears that ivman is incompatible with some newer versions of hal...
View Articlemigrating from fluxbox 1.0.0 to 1.1.X
I recently upgraded from a stable fluxbox release (1.0.0) to a development one (1.1.1), on gentoo x11-wm/fluxbox-1.1.1-r1, ~x86 branch . There have been some interesting changes. If you also upgrade...
View Articlehalevt in portage!
Since yesterday halevt (HAL Events Manager) and its dependency, boolstuff library are in the official Gentoo portage! halevt on Portage boolstuff on Portage They only thing it took was convincing...
View Articlelifesaving ROX tip, open file:// urls
Firefox has the feature of keeping links to downloaded files as urls using the file:// pattern. For example: file:///home/user/downloads/test.zip. If you choose ROX-Filer (/usr/bin/rox) to open these...
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qt libraries upgrade problem for gentoo
To complement alex’s post upgrading Qt libraries in Gentoo with Portage, here’s what started it all. I wanted to upgrade my kpdf to the most recent version without upgrading world. So the output of...
View ArticleHandling right clicks on a macbook running Linux
I’ve finally settled down to a solution that I am happy with. I used to have the following options inside my Xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics"...
View Articlenicotine+ 1.2.12 ebuild
I’ve uploaded an ebuild for the latest version of nicotine+ on gentoo’s bugzilla. Nicotine+ is a great p2p app written in PyGtK2 to connect to the Soulseek network. I’ve also added psyco as a USE flag...
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Vodafone, Cosmote 3G on Linux (wvdial and umtsmon)
The following configs can be used when you have either Vodafone Mobile Internet or Cosmote Internet on the Go or both 3G USB sticks and you want to connect to the 3G Internet (in Greece) while using...
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minor uniformity patch for smplayer
One of the things that good Linux applications should have is uniformity. Just like Mac OS X does. All applications should use the same keybindings to perform the same tasks. For example, on _every_ OS...
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