While I'm waiting for my computers to emerge --sync , I'm going to take a minute to "muse" on my experience with Gentoo (as a system administrator) in a school setting of about 40-50 computers.

I recently worked with Kubuntu, not because I'm one of those "I'm finished with Gentoo!" people, but ...

its a hack but if its not going to work any other way, I give up

I did the same thing before trying all that other stuff because I don't have time right now to mess with all that other stuff. I've had to do this (symlink) in the past without any side-effects that I'm aware of... As someone ...

I'm usually a Gentoo Fan, BUT it's things like this that really make me mad and frustrated. I was doing what should have been a simple a quick update, only to find out it ended up breaking the system and now I need to do all this tedious voodoo to make things work again. Surely there has to be a ...

Hello dear developers,

I've been using Gentoo for a few years now, both at home and as the main OS for the computers I'm responsible for as a system administrator, and I just wanted to go on the record and thank everyone involved in making Gentoo happen. As a system administrator (and an author of ...

Hi folks,

I'm sure this must have been covered before, but I couldn't find the thread. Here's my question: if my processor has mmx, mmxext, 3dnow, 3dnowext, sse, etc. etc., is it a good thing to enable support for ALL of these when compiling players such as mplayer and xine , or is it actually ...

mind sharing your startup script for your busy ~/ directories and your fstab ? Good tips so far.

interesting stuff from fstab (the tabbing doesn't copy over whell):
/dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime,async,noatime,nodiratime 1 0
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /var ext3 noatime,async,noatime ...

Your Hard Drive is failing.
Use smart daemon to see it.
Or use diagnostic programs which come or on the website of HDD manufacturers.


No, no - this is a brand new (Dell Linux) laptop. When I say "noisy", I purposefully quote that because I'm not talking about a dying drive, just one that is ...

Mike:

Which KDE process generated lots of disk activity. On my box most of disk activity was by pdflush and filesystem journalling daemon kjournald.

-x

What I noticed is that every time I opened a menu that I hadn't opened before (and thus not in the system cache), the drive was accessed. From ...

Howdy folks,

I've been on a personal quest for a while now to quiet down my noisy hard drive on my laptop. I've detailed this process on my blog at http://extra-ketchup.blogspot.com/2007/06/quest-for-quiet-hard-drive.html . My goal was to reduce the almost constant "chatter" and "chirping" from ...

I've been working on this lately, and I had the same trouble until I ran winecfg and selected an audio driver (ALSA). It seems that wine doesn't automatically configure sound, you have to do it yourself.

Now I have Shockwave working via Windows Firefox, but I do have a problem with studdering sound ...

I've been wanting to get back to this post for a while (out of site, out of mind). My IPAQ has both WIFI and a SD card, so I can more easily get data by just popping out the SD card. However, how do I read / write the proprietary "pim.vol" file?

When using sync, does this software decode this file ...

Howdy all,

I'm sure I'm not the only one to do this, but I wanted to share my experiences just in case.

I'm a fan of the -Os flag for compilation. I don't use it on everything, but I like Linus' approach - use O2 for things like the kernel, and use Os for applications, especially large, bloated ...

Have you solved this yet? I get this on various SDL games, but others work fine...

Mike

Hey Ketchup, you mentioned earlier that all your labs are identical. Instead of compiling the source (with distcc) 20 times (once per computer), wouldn't it be easier for 1 distcc compile of the source, quickpkg it, then emerge -K the provided custom binary package off the servers distfiles ...

Help please!

I'm the proud new owner of an HP rx1950 Ipaq PocketPC (though I wish it ran Linux). I also am an avid fan of KDE's latest PIM suite (Kontact, Korganizer, etc.). I'd love be be able to sync between the two, but my first problem to overcome is getting Linux (particularly the kernel) to ...

HELP!

I'd really like to be able to sync my new HP rx1950 Ipaq Pocket PC with my various KDE PIM tools. I'm not having much luck, and I'm not finding much useful on the Internet.

When I connect the Ipaq via USB sync, which runs the new Windows Mobile 5 OS, it shows up as a "Generic RNDIS" device ...

Have you tried prelinking?

Yes, I actually use it (I've never benchmarked it, but I've read it works well). However, my understanding is that prelink deals with reducing the overhead of dynamically linking libraries into specific memory addresses. Os, on the other hand, reduces the overall file ...

Howdy Folks,

I thought I'd throw 2 pennies into the Os vs O2 debate. I've been using Os not so much because lack of memory, drive space, or even cache (primarily because I didn't think about the cache), but because for me the bottleneck isn't the speed of the program when it is running in RAM, but ...

You shouldn't recompile everything no, but if you have done some major updates like glibc you should run revdep-rebuild which will determine what packages need to be recompiled, if any.

Quick question about glibc (this may sound noobish) - would a package need recompiled if they dynamically link ...

The labexec script (which I created long before I switched to Gentoo) is a very simple script that allows me to run a command on all the workstations in the lab. Here it is:

Oh, since I'm posting it, let's just go ahead and release it under GPL :)


# This script allows a command / program to be ...

Cool, that's interesting. Do you have this posted somewhere?
I don't have my "genstall" scripts posted yet for two reasons - 1) I'm working on a more versatile version for our staff computers. You see, our computer lab consists of 20 identical computers, right down to the type of hard drives they ...

You "developed a system"? Perhaps you have, but all that was covered were emerge, kde, and distccmon, which is more properly termed "are using some tools"

Ugh... gaentu? It's pronounced jentu, with a soft g like the word gentle ( see the faq ).

So basically they filmed a few emerge and distccmon ...

Yes, please advocate the use of open and free formats not ones that requires a license (which is the case for all mpeg4 derived formats)
Okay, let me ask you this - will the ogg format work in Windows Media Player? Is the codec easy to obtain and install? Understand that almost 100% of our website ...

I'm curious...

The video file has the MPG extension, yet the article says it is encoded in DivX, which is AVI.

Care to clarify?


When I encoded the video, I used the ffmpeg encoder set to mpeg4. I thus assumed I was using a "generic" mpeg4 codec. When I went to view this in Windows (since ...

Howdy folks,

This may seem like a "shameless plug", but I thought you might be interested in seeing a piece our local CBS news affiliate did on our school's recent switch to Gentoo Linux (I'm the network administrator they interviewed). Forgive my awkwardness in front of the camera :oops: . You can ...