2007, 2008 and 2009 book reviews coming…
on Oct 15, 2009 in Development Reviews Technical Web Development Weblog Website 2007 2008 2009 audio audiobooks book list booklist Well, as anyone reading this blog will quickly notice, I stopped posting in 2006 and so my book reviews just stopped and have yet to start up again. Well, that is all about to change. It will take me a while to get them all written and posted since...

Apologies for the lack of updates…
on Oct 14, 2009 in Development System Development Technical bugs.gentoo.org gentoo e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs educational software german shepherd golden retriever image gallery nextgen older version plugins preserved-rebuild puppy revdep-rebuild smooth gallery status update trixi tuxtype typing tutor wordpress I have been rushing around trying to take care of non-computer related things and have had very little time for my regular update schedule. When I have had time to sit down at my computer, here is what I have been doing: Part of the confusion/proble...

xcb/x.org 1.6 uprade Finally done!!1! (as of 2am this morning)
on Oct 8, 2009 in Development FOSS Development Rants System Development Technical Weblog gentoo emerge Linux portage revdep-rebuild x.org 1.6 xcb ~amd64 I finally purged the last of libxcb and got x.org 1.6 up to gentoo amd64 zen goodness on my system! (golfclap)...

KDE 4.3 tryout…
on Oct 8, 2009 in FOSS Development Reviews System Development Technical Weblog gentoo desktop kde 4.3 Linux screencap screenshot widgets x.org 1.6 So, I went ahead and did all of the work necessary to get kde 4.3 installed and working on gentoo, what I consider a non-trivial task. I really wanted to try a bunch of stuff out, and I must say that I am very impressed. These guys have come a very...

Building a firewall box… in an aluminum gun case
on Oct 8, 2009 in Development System Development Technical Weblog gentoo aluminum craft dremel firewall fun guncase Linux project I decided to build a linux firewall out of an aluminum gun case.

Gentoo xorg 1.6 xcb upgrade FROM HELL
on Oct 7, 2009 in Development FOSS Development Rants System Development Technical Web Development Weblog bugs.gentoo.org gentoo bash difficult guide nightmare portage rant revdep-rebuild systems hacking upgrade x.org xcb xorg Gentoo xorg 1.6 xcb upgrade is causing me a LOT of headaches. Gentoo is my favorite of all distros, but sometimes...

quick update on the libxcb stuff posted in the previous post
on Oct 7, 2009 in Technical gentoo portage revdep-rebuild xcb xorg 1.6 It appears that taskjuggler will not be supporting KDE 4 (I have KDE 4.3.1 installed) until version 3 comes out, and that looks to be a while. That’s why I had the latest in the long series of blockers, and I will continue chasing this until t...

finally started!
on Oct 6, 2009 in Technical 32-bit compatability 64-bit linux gentoo kde kde4 native 64 portage sci-astronomy x86_64 ~amd64 After working off-and-on all day on cleaning up old stuff off my system so that I could fix many of the broken shared objects and linker files I have finally finished. To celebrate I spend the entire evening cleaning up old mismatched parts of kde s...

Banshee — the next best thing to Linux iTunes
on Oct 6, 2009 in Reviews Technical Weblog gentoo audio banshee ipod music player podcast Banshee — the next best thing to Linux iTunes. I’ve been looking for a new linux audio player ever since all of the problems started cropping up with amarok during my initial failed attempt to install KDE 4. Audacious2 works ok, but does...

wpstats and webalizer configured
on Oct 6, 2009 in Technical analytics apache CLF awstats google javascript log parsing webalizer I set up google analytics when I first started getting my blog back up and active, but I don’t much like it. This is because it fails to get a huge percentage of the traffic. For instance, it cannot do anything about image links, css, javascr...