I'm playing with g-cpan to try to install WordPress::Post in Gentoo without causing the usual mess.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 month ago, on
February 05, 2010, at 03:02 |
When I went from X.org < 7.3 to X.org > 7.3, I had to make some changes to my X input configuration.
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Rowan Rodrik, 6 months ago, on
September 20, 2009, at 15:09 |
When I installed this laptop last year, I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of vanilla Wine (and Gentoo's default Wine configuration). At that time, my only memory of Wine was that getting anything useful to work took work and that your best bet to get anything working was to install CrossOver Office. Things change and in the meantime Wine has even come to version 1.0.
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I'm trying to upgrade my qt 4.3 to 4.5. Version 4.5 seems to be split up in several ebuils, one of which is qt-dbus. When trying to install qt-dbus, it says that the files conflict with qt-4.3. This is only normal, because in version 4.3, the files did belong to qt.
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halfgaar, 9 months ago, on
June 19, 2009, at 17:06 |
I always thought I had portage's compile cache enabled, but upon recent inspection, it appears that I didn't. What was missing, was the package dev-util/ccache. I also increased the cache size to 2 GB, as per the Gentoo documentation.
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halfgaar, 9 months ago, on
June 19, 2009, at 12:06 |
This Gentoo box needs upgrading badly. I started this in February, so perhaps it's time to continue.
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During the first gentoo update session for this machine, I didn't get very far. I already mentioned the problem I had with e2fsprogs, but this was not the first or the last problem that I had.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on
February 05, 2009, at 02:02 |
During my recent Gentoo update session, I was once again confronted with the inconvenience of not having my /etc/ directory under version management. This time, I thought I had the ideal SCM for this job: Git.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on
February 04, 2009, at 22:02 |
Yesterday evening, I dropped by at Wiebe's with my laptop to start updating our Gentoo systems together. I hadn't updated this machine since first installing it in spring last year, so I expected quite a few problems. The first blockage that we both had to solve was caused by e2fsprogs.
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Rowan Rodrik, 1 year ago, on
January 28, 2009, at 23:01 |
With me mostly posting about computer stuff on this weblog, it might surprise you that, until May this year, I hadn't owned a personal computer in years while the last one that I did own was a slow pig grown from some old parts of an even slower pig and some second-hand replacements. So, you can image my joy when I got a shiny, new Lenovo Thinkpad 61 this spring.
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