Category Archives: Gentoo
KDE SC 4.4 – Steady, Incremental Improvements
I haven’t noticed any killer features in KDE SC 4.4 and I’ve been running it since Beta 1. I’ve noticed a lot of subtle improvements. Things like app stacking and selection in the task bar seem much more responsive. All … Continue reading
2010 SpamAssasin Public Service Announcement
If you run a public mail server, there is a good chance you run SpamAssassin. There is a New Year’s SNAFU in which any dates 2010+ are marked “grossly in the future”. That is a problem since it is now … Continue reading
Sun Ultra 27 Review – The Ultimate Linux Workstation
Sun Microsystems has a powerful and favorably priced entry in the x86 workstation space with the Ultra 27. Such is the power of this workstation and its natural fit for *nix workloads, combined with a compelling price tag, I pronounce … Continue reading
DRBD merged with kernel 2.6.33
DRBD has been a long standing external patch in many distribution kernels. It has finally been merged in the 2.6.33 window. Colloquially the “Distributed Redundant Block Device”, this piece of code allows you to mirror blocks of storage across multiple … Continue reading
Getting Beautiful Fonts in Gentoo Linux
Here’s my easy and modern guide to getting pleasant looking fonts on Gentoo with minimal effort. USE Flags Enable the following USE flags: euse –enable truetype type1 cleartype corefonts and make sure everything is built with them enabled: emerge -uDNa … Continue reading
Java: The Good Parts
A while back, a book entitled JavaScript: The Good Parts made waves on the internet, especially social networking sites. This book purported to show the inner beauty of a language that was long considered second or third rate, coming of … Continue reading
Computer e-Recycling (an I.T. WTF Odyssey)
Story Time: Computer e-Recycling an I.T. WTF Odyssey I had the displeasure of working at an erecycler several years ago. Even watching stuff come off the trucks, it was very hard to get anything before it was utterly destroyed by … Continue reading
Kernel 2.6.30 is a Go
I initially thought this would be a rather uninteresting release, especially when we learned Xen dom0 didn’t make the cut. Following the changelog line-by-line, this one still didn’t seem very interesting to me. But analyzing the sum of parts, I … Continue reading
Kernel developers don’t get Xen
The recent bruhaha surrounding Xen on LKML (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/2/475) is really disheartening. Essentially, the Linux kernel devs are at a disconnect with users. Some are proposing narrow-minded ideas such as DROPPING software paravirt or merging Xen as a whole into the … Continue reading
To users that miss xorg.conf and complain about it
I get requests from users and see questions all the time for “where did my xorg.conf go in the latest Ubuntu or Fedora?”, though it is usually a bit more of a flame. The quick answer… press Ctrl+Alt+F2 or similar … Continue reading