Having a Gentoo32 chroot as a fallback on a Gentoo64 system is not unusual. Some things simply do not work on Gentoo 64 (as FlashPlayer 9) or you need a distcc server for the other (32 bit) systems. I wrote a simple bash script that allows the X applications under chroot jail to connect to…
Every time you feed a troll, God kills a kitten
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Sharp Zaurus Out of Production
It seems that Sharp will no longer produce the Zaurus line. Hi all, yes, we have to confirm that Sharp pulled the plug out of the Zaurus line. No successor model is planned, and the end of production will be early February. For sure we’ll continue with support, service and accessories for the Zauri. Also…
Gentoo on IBM ThinkPad 385XD
Another birthday present was a laptop IBM ThinkPad 385XD upgraded to 96MB of RAM and 10GB HDD. It came with Windows 2000 preinstalled but I already build a Gentoo image on my desktop for it. Due to the fact that it has a quite slow CPU and only 96 MB of RAM, I was thinking…
Logitech Formula Force EX Wheel on Linux
On my birthday, my friends bought me a Logitech Formula Force EX Feedback Wheel. After playing with it a lot in Windows, I decided to make it work on Linux. The force feedback part didn’t work out of the box. I managed to make it work with the usb-hid driver after I added it’s usb…
Linux DC++ was added to Gentoo today
The ebuild for the Linux port of DC++ Direct Connect client (Linux DC++) was added today to Gentoo portage. I was waiting for a long time to see a reliable Direct Connect client on Linux.
Bluetooth GPS on Gentoo
Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me. This assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box. # emerge -p gpsd # hcitool scan Scanning … 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS # sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A Browsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A … Service Name: SPP slave Service Description: Bluetooth SPP…
How to upgrade udev to 103 on Gentoo
I run into some problems when I upgraded udev to version 103 on Gentoo. In order to have it working I needed to: emerge -C coldplug emerge -C hotplug emerge -C hotplug-base emerge -C udev rm -rf /etc/hotplug rm -rf /etc/hotplug.d rm -rf /etc/udev emerge udev emerge baselayout etc-update rc-update del coldplug rm -f /etc/init.d/coldplug…
Linux Kernel 2.6.19 released
For the first time ever, the Linux Kernel includes a stackable file system. The new file system name is eCryptfs and it is based on FiST. “eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key,…