SystemRescueCd is my favorite Linux live CD's for system recovery and related tasks. It is based on Gentoo and comes with all the right toys to make me happy. :-)
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I don't believe in system passwords if they're not backup by some type of disk encryption. It's simply too easy to circumvent by changing a few boot parameters or by inserting a good boot disk. For performance reasons, I've decided against using full-disk encryption for my laptop and even against encryption for my home folder. This makes typing in a password to login a mere annoyance. Admittedly, my laptop features a fingerprint reader, but at the time I couldn't get it to work and it still requires me to type in my username, which I find just as superfluous. Also, fingerprints aren't that secure either.
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I'm playing with g-cpan to try to install WordPress::Post in Gentoo without causing the usual mess.
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By
Rowan Rodrik, 1 decade 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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade 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, 1 decade 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 decade 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 decade ago, on
February 04, 2009, at 22:02 |
