I’ve seen many websites that have pretty much the same ext3 performance tips, but I just came across this one today that had something very useful on it. It turns out that the ext3 filesystem by default reserves 5% of the disk space of the volume just in case the volume fills up. This would [...]
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I don’t know why they didn’t post this on the Gentoo front page, but obviously the October GMN is not coming. If you are on the ‘Gentoo-dev-announce’ mailing list, you would have seen Anant mention what’s going on with the GMN. Hi Folks, I’ve been extremely busy traveling & attending conferences for the last few [...]
I just noticed on planet gentoo that a developer, Sven Vermeulen aka swift, has posted a draft of his new ebook on Gentoo Linux. I couldn’t figure out a way to register to post a comment, so I thought I would post something in my blog about it. I haven’t had a chance to do [...]
At long last, Gentoo 2008.0 is out. Yeah, I know. If you already have Gentoo installed, who cares about a new release? Releases are good for the distribution as a whole. It stirs interest from people who haven’t tried Gentoo and also inspires articles on websites and magazines. Anyway… I decided to switch to the [...]
In this article, you’ll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).read more | digg story
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I just found a couple cool programs called turbotail and multitail while searching for rbot using eix. Turbotail is just like tail, but it uses dnotify instead of auto refreshing a defined number of seconds. I always thought it was kind of silly to keep refreshing the screen searching for new content with tail. Turbotail [...]
In this post we present 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective coding. … There are some very nice techniques here. Item #43 is very cool. It might come in handy for a site I’m currently working on.read more | digg story
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There’s a wiki article that attempts to consolidate and explain a lot of the information found on the forums about the current status of various things at Gentoo. If you haven’t yet, take a look at it and contribute.
For those of you whom haven’t subscribed to the gentoo-nfp mailing list, Alec Warner (aka antarus) just sent an informative email that explains a little more about what is going on with the foundation status. He also requests for suggestions on how to proceed regarding the foundation status. There are a number of folks working [...]
I just saw that Daniel posted an offer to help Gentoo in it’s time of need. I really hope that the trustees and council agree and choose to help.
