As you know, I own an Acer TravelMate 800 since quite some time. As I have used it for server stuff during the last month, it was time to start with a new install as there was too much junk on it. Considering the fact, that this notebook is a real old one, it works at impressive speed […]
That’s it for this year.
Regarding the actual foggy weather, the moped season is over – at least for me. I do not want to be overlooked and killed on the road, you know. Regarding the mileage, I’ll post an update later on after the winter check…
Aren’t we all critics?
It looks like there are people around who cannot stand other peoples projects as you read their reviews. Shouldn’t we blogger look at things in a different way, not always seeing the worst? Rei has written a good article about animadversions (german).
Testdriving 2.6.23
Since today I am running the new gentoo-sources patchset, which is using the new 2.6.23 kernel sources. The update was more or less pain free, disregarding some sandbox violations. But those were avoided using FEATURES=”-sandbox -sfperms -usersandbox”. The best thing about the new sources is, that I do not need to patch them with the uvesafb patches as […]
Surprise, surprise
You remember the Btrfs project, the new and really fast filesystem? Rei – a fellow gentoo user tests this filesystem on her computer and discovered a nasty bug causing a kernel panic. She reported to the mailinglist. The bug was already fixed in the Mercury-Repository – so she did some Live-Ebuilds. Well done!
A small update
As already discussed in another postings comment, here is an image of Grazers ‘Lady in black’. I have to admit, she is really great and got style, ‘ain’t she? Or are there other opinions around?