So I figured what the heck, I might as well install some stats software if I ever plan on updating my blog. So, I just installed a Google Analytics plugin. Of course, I’ll have to wait a bit for it to start showing some stats.
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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 weeks and will be required to continue the same for atleast 2 weeks more; and nightmorph is just recovering from his failed hardware. As a result, there will be no October issue of the GMN. We hope to resume to normality by the end of November.
Apologies.
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Anant
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 much more than glance at the book, but wow! There sure is a lot of information there. The book is distributed with the Creative Commons license.
Thanks Sven for taking the time to write a book about our favorite distro. 
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 2008.0 profile. Usually, I just delete the /etc/make.profile symlink and create a new one to the latest and greatest profile. This time I figured I would give eselect a try. It changed the symlink fine, but I got the following error when trying to use emerge:
!!! Unable to parse profile: '/etc/make.profile'
!!! ParseError: Parent '/usr/portage/profiles/releases/2008.0' not found: '/usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/parent'.
So, I deleted the symlink it created and did it manually. Got the same error. It turns out, some rsync servers either don’t have or aren’t propagating the new /usr/portage/profiles/releases directory. After doing another emerge –sync, it created the releases directory for me and I was good to go.
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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 just sits there until the kernel notifies of a change in the file that you are tail’ing and then it updates what you see.
Multitail looks like a VERY robust way of viewing multiple files. It can tail any number of files and supports text filtering and even syntax highlighting.
Turbotail works great, but unfortunately multitail crashes when I try to run it from my Yakuake console. I get this:
--*- multitail 5.2.0 (C) 2003-2007 by folkert@vanheusden.com -*-- A problem occured at line 511 in function mynewwin (from file term.c): Failed to create window with dimensions 55x9 at offset -27,-4 (terminal size: 167,19) |
Seems to work just fine from a regular console though. It will take me a while to actually learn all of the features of multitail.
After a while of looking for a new job, I finally got a new job. Well, actually, I’ve been working my new job for about 3 months now. So… I guess it’s not really a new job anymore.
I’m now a full time Linux administrator with ExLibris. Unfortunately, Red Hat is the preferred distribution. That’s to be expected. Most business want to make sure they use something that’s proven and has a clear line of support.
The new job is in Des Plaines, Il, which means I’ll have to sell my house and move a little closer. So far, the job seems pretty good. It’s doing something I like and the people are nice, and most of them seem pretty smart.
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I’m glad this was posted on Digg. I found it a while ago and completely forgot about it. There is really a lot of good information there, especially some good information about distributed computing.
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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.
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