As the windows part was done, it is time to do the productive environment used for work – Gentoo Linux. As already mentioned in one of my previous posts, we are talking about a 64bit system. But before watching the GCC output, it’s time to look at some specs and hints. I’ll start with the CPU which specs […]
Tag: gentoo
Enough joking
As the title says, I’m getting serious about my server boxes – no more software raid, no more running all that websites using the same user, no more kidding. As the new mailserver is already productive, the second IBM x345. As already told in the post dealing with the new server, it was no big deal doing the […]
KDE 4 – still no thanks (yet)
As I was hit by KDE4 due to the ~arch keyword on my gentoo box in october, I was playing with KDE4 for quite a while. I even had the two versions in parallel. But due to starting up wrong version of binaries due to PATH issues, I am pretty fed up with testing. Unmerging the whole KDE […]
KDE 4 – no thanks (yet)
It was quite a surprise as yesterdays update list showed KDE4. They have unmasked and keyworded it for ~x86. Having mixed feelings, I started the emerge procedure which took a while until my system was up to date again.
Login via Bluethooth
If you try to go over the top with some things, then you should really do it instead of just using some tiny hacks. What about logging into your computer using a mobile phone? Sounds cool, huh? So let’s use it and get to work. As the title already says, you will need a bluetooth enabled phone, a […]
Living without aRtsd isn’t bad at all
aRts is the old KDE Sound daemon which appeared around Version 2.0 of the KDE. Its purpose was mixing multiple music channels in real time – in other words playing a beep sound while playing music and so on as the common soundcard wasn’t able to do this. Later on hardware and drivers moved on and the main […]