I made my first application for Android. A very simple application to calculate tip portions for a group of people. It’s wasn’t rocket science to make but it was a lot of fun. a good learning experience and it’s great…
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LWN is reporting[1] an issue with the Intel e1000e driver in the development kernel (2.6.27) that could leave your network card permanently damaged. At this point, Gentoo provides this version of development kernel with the git-sources package. This issue apparently…
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A new version of portpeek can be found here (version 1.6.7) or emerged through portage. Changes: The way I was checking if a package was masked was incorrect. If you had a package in package.unmask and it was also in…
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A new version of portpeek can be found here (version 1.6.1) or emerged through portage. Changes: This version is for users of portage >= 2.2 as it removes the use of deprecated modules. Recommendations for additional features are gladly welcomed.
Trying to keep ahead of the zero-day vanilla bump requests has proven to be challenging. To aid in that, I’ve written a small bash script that will go out and determine if a new kernel version has been released. If…
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“Failing that, the latest news item on the Gentoo Linux home page — announcing the October 15 weekly newsletter — could be the project’s very last news release.” – DistroWatch Come again? Yes, Gentoo has some issues concerning the Gentoo…
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Update (10/21/07): ebuild and patch for konsole 3.5.8 I always felt a ‘paste selection’ menu item in konsole would be a great feature to have. I coded a two liner for konsole and submitted it to the KDE Bug Tracking…
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A new version of portpeek can be found here (version 1.5.7) or emerged through portage. Changes: Packages without (<>=) atoms should not be displayed as stable since this tool is for managing specific versions of packages in package.mask and package.keywords