Sorry in advance, but right now I have the feeling that if I don’t rant a little bit I’m gonna burst. “Technology sucks”, sometimes. First of all there is the “it was fine before but you just _had_ to ‘improve’ it, didn’t you?” kind of suckage (nevermind, I just made that word up). That’s when [...]
If you have (or want) to install software not using your distributions package/ports manager you’re left with basically two choices: Install it in /usr/local (i.e. system-wide) or in your homedir (like ~/local). Whatever you decide to do you really should use stow (as i learned today ;). Stow makes managing the different software packages easy. [...]
Boy do I hate printers. But there is no getting around it (and I do love printing stuff ;). Ive been happily using my Laserjet 1320 with Cups 1.1.23-r8 on Gentoo, masking any newer versions because they did not work. Well, long story short, today I (accidently) upgraded Cups and the problem I always avoided [...]
Git 1.5.3 was “released” yesterday by Junio. You can get it via your favorite package manager (it’s still keyworded on amd64/gentoo though) or via git of course. I’m not really that much into the whole development process and also do not have a project to use git with (although that will change soon), but I [...]
Like git? Good. Like the UI of slrn/mutt? Even better. Then you should try out tig which is a text-mode interface to git (written in C). Users of slrn should feel right at home, everyone else should not have a hard time using it. tig enables you to view the repository history in a variety [...]
Nachdem ich hier immer wieder über verschiedene Sachen zu meinen Gentoo/Linux-System gebloggt hatte die mir als besonders erwähnenswert oder behaltenswert erschienen habe ich mich jetzt dazu entschlossen das Ganze auf eine extra-Seite (http://hackvalue.de/~heipei/linux/) (auf Englisch) zu packen um es da ein bisschen gebündelter und strukturierter zu archivieren. Bisher ist die Seite noch relativ klein und [...]
Since i recently moved into my own flat and now have to pay for the electricity i consume i wanted to get Suspend-to-ram working (why not suspend-to-disk you might ask. well, that would be the next step ;). One of my most frequented websites linux.com posted a short intro and a script to do just [...]
Meine Umlaute unter xorg funktionieren wieder. Yeah. Nun muss ich mir nur noch angewöhnen in deutschen Texten auch wirklich welche zu benutzen (das mit der Kommasetzung ist auch noch “suboptimal”). Egal. Wie ich das ans laufen gekriegt hab war eigentlich sehr einfach. In der ~/.Xmodmap einfach folgendes eintragen: keycode 113 = Mode_switch Multi_key keycode 39 [...]
Add another 100 or so packages from emerge -eav system and you know what you are getting yourself into when you update your system to use gcc 4.1.1 and glibc 2.4 ;) (A little help here)
some people, like me, tend to be a little slower. so if you run into the same problems after updating to rails 1.1 and your old 1.0 rails app dont work with lighttpd anymore (but instead quit with this error:) 2006-08-04 19:59:41: (mod_fastcgi.c.1022) execve failed for: public/dispatch.fcgi No such file or directory 2006-08-04 19:59:41: (mod_fastcgi.c.1048) [...]
