Technology

Upgraded my Gentoo system to GNOME 2.1. Looks good too, I’ll post a screenshot soon. The fonts look awsome, and the speed improvements in Nautilus make it almost usable. The only strangeness is that the terminal app’s setting for transparent background doesn’t seem to work (it did once, but not since), and when one alt-tabs […]

Well, my system is now a gentoo box. It’s a pretty sweet system, though I don’t feel any huge speed increase. It’s nice to be cutting edge though, using devfs, tmpfs, grub, and a bunch of other neat technologies, simply “there” for you. Compiling everything, and getting it all working nicely did take a couple

Ok, bit of an update. After my last entry I headed down to the Bellingham Linux Users Group Linux Fest with Cuv, BSpudd, and Cadiolas. It was a lot smaller than expected, with one room full of systems, one room with people (local venders) selling things, and a guy doing a raffle, and one room

Well, it looks like we’re back up, at least to some degree. I managed to convince Tom to head in to the colo and open it up for me, so I could look at the box. It looked like a random crash, and booted up just fine after hitting the big red button. I replaced

Ok, so friday I finally got the box up, going, with RAID5 all nicely going, various things restored and ready to go. Even put it through a burn in of sorts by copying various people’s home directories to my workstation here for burning. I took the box into new west after work and put it

Almost done the restore/rebuild, with a few glitches left to work out before I pack it up for transport to the colo tomorrow night.

Ok, here’s a quickie update: New hardware (case + HDs) have been got, and the hardware is all installed. I have to do some set up still, but the OS has been installed onto another drive, and will be copied across to the new one(s) which will be using software IDE RAID5 on /usr/ and

Yet another night wasted on this damn POS machine. Ok, UFies update for ya’ll who care. Looks like the brand new drive I bought at London Drugs less than 3 months ago is pooched. Ever put a marble in a tin can and rattled it around? Well that’s the sound the drive makes when it

Ok, no bitching from me today! There’s a shocker for you eh? Several awsome things happened today! We finally got the project to the Quality Assurance and tech people. This has taken forever, but it’s finally in their hands. I’m sure it’ll be back in the developers soon enough, for bugs, but at least it’s

Wow, things are almost back to normal. I have the middle of a gross throat “thing” involving lovely phlem, and a rusty cough. The house is clean(ish) the cats have survived a hyper couple of days of playing in wrapping paper, and a few bits and pieces of new stuff have found homes. Among these