http://www.monkeydust.net ramblings from the techie side of life Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:53:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just incase you've been living under a stone for the past few months, Gentoo's 2008.0 release is finally upon us. A big congrats to all involved, its been a long journey but well worth it. Highlights include: The 2008.0 final release is out! Code-named "It's got what plants ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/07/06/gentoo-20080/ After first seeing it mentioned in irc last night, i took a look at former gentoo dev, kloeri's current project called Exherbo which seems very much to be Gentoo 2.0. So far its got a number of former Gentoo dev's onboard, including Ciaranm, who, regardless of his sometimes lacking people ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/05/20/exherbo-gentoo-v2/ I couldnt resist posting this, everytime i think xkcd couldnt get any better they go post something like this! Of course, now xkcd posted this, how long till someone goes off and actually makes this :D (incase the image doesnt show, heres the original xkcd post) http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/04/21/possibly-the-best-use-for-the-eee-pc-yet/ As part of my new job im left dealing with a whole series of databases, and one of the regular jobs is to update them from various sources. Normally that involves extracting data as a CSV file from the main database, which then needs to be edited and checking in ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/04/17/living-in-csv-hell/ Well, i figured i should at least post something here :) Thanks to beandog for adding me planet larry, although lately my work with linux has taken a downturn. For those who somehow found my blog beforehand (ie. no one) would have known ive been playing around with building a ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/04/02/welcome-to-planet-larry-and-damn-you-real-life/ Ok, so i made a slight oopsie when building the x86 livecd, seems i forgot that building a x86 chroot on amd64 system might cause problems, id seen the solution, read it then promptly ignore it. So after emerging setarch as told and lauching the 32bit chroot with linux32 im now ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/03/02/slightly-delayed/ So, ive finally managed to find a bit of free time now that work allows me the whole weekend to myself so ive been playing around with building a gentoo based livecd. Ive previously tried using catalyst, the official tool used by gentoo to build their livecd's but its not ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/03/02/building-a-gentoo-based-livecd/ Well, ive been twiddling my thumbs for months waiting for someone, somewhere to answer my prayers and create a working linux x-fi driver. Creative did release an 'official' beta driver last year but ive never had any luck with it like a large number of other people. However it would appear ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/02/17/creative-x-fi-sound-in-linux/ So im making progress in getting this site working, although most of my tinkering has been behind the scenes lately, but i now have subversion and trac working (for anyone who cares trac is running on http://dev.monkeydust.net/trac) although i did hit some snags getting trac running in the root directory ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/02/04/looking-for-ideas/ Well after months of procrastinating making excuses to myself ive finally taken the plunge and bought myself a domain and setup some hosting so i can now share my rants and rambles with the world (well, maybe a few people less than the whole world). If your seeing this on planet ... http://www.monkeydust.net/2008/01/28/a-foray-into-the-blogosphere/