Boldly goes where no coder has gone before… and other ramblings :)
From the category archives:
“There are two kinds of people, those who backup regularly, and those that never had a hard drive fail”
I love the above quote. It is so true and I believe everyone should evaluate how much their data (emails, documents, files) is worth to them and, based on that value, create a backup strategy that suits [...]
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Recently I have started setting up a cluster of 7 Gentoo boxes for a project I am working on. The problem with boxes coming right out of the setup process of a hosting company is that they do not contain the packages that you need. Therefore you need to setup your USE flags and emerge [...]
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Continuing from Part 2.
I had to shut the computer down because I had a train to catch. However booting up again the computer on the train and trying to enter the chroot environment produced some errors. It might very well be the fact that I do not have an Internet connection (at least a reliable [...]
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Continuing from Part 1.
The download took quite a while, so I thought it might be a good idea to split this post in parts, so as to ensure good readability.
I need to create some symlinks. Also a good place to add my repository is /usr/local hence the commands for Chromium OS and Chromium respectively.
sudo mv [...]
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A lot of hype has been generated on the Internet a few months back regarding Google’s announcement that they are building a new operating system. The announcement was met with skepticism but also enthusiasm/anticipation by a lot of people who are puzzled as to what direction Google is taking and where are they looking themselves [...]
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This is my effort to install Gentoo Linux on my Acer Ferrari LMi 3000.
The first thing I did was to start ssh. The live CD of Gentoo had already identified my network card which is based on the via-rhine module.
# /etc/init.d/sshd start
The key is generated and of course I needed to change the password to [...]
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