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Monthly Archives: December 2007
The Philoshpy of Gentoo
Ever since I loaded up Ubuntu temporarily while waiting for Paludis to release a non-alpha, then failing to install with the alpha, and then reloading Ubuntu I’ve found myself questioning the point. Why Gentoo? In fact I had a coworker … Continue reading
Posted in installing, rant
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The Paludis Plot
The Paludis Plot, as I have coined it, is the conspiracy theory that the paludis developers, lead by Ciaran McCreesh, are attempting to rework Gentoo in order to only work properly with their package manager, paludis, and rework portage (the … Continue reading
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Excel Macros
Have you written macros for Excel? They’re easy, most of the time their annoying, and the editor given to you to write them in is absolutely horrendous. Other than that I really enjoy writing them. Strange isn’t it? I think … Continue reading
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Uht oh, should of used Linux!
So I’m at work and I’m trying to defragment my hard drive. According to Firefox “defragment” is not a word. My guess is thats a product of a great number of its developers not really being Windows kind of guys. … Continue reading
Vim problems and tarballs
In lieu of my recent install problems with Gentoo I installed Arch again just so I could have an OS up and running. I plan on trying to install Gentoo again, probably sometime around this weekend. I saw D. Robbins … Continue reading
Posted in Arch, gvim, installing, rant, vim
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What Gentoo Needs
If Gentoo wants to remain one of the prominent distributions in this world I believe some things need to change. Gentoo is, in my opinion, starting to become crusty. I mean all distributions have their issues but I don’t use … Continue reading
Posted in paludis, rant, review
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Just give me one that works…
Fed up with my ever failing Gentoo install I decided it was time I just start dual booting with another distro I know I can get installed. So I downloaded Arch Linux, figured out how to burn ISOs from the … Continue reading
Posted in Arch, installing
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I was right
I was right, Paludis does not display summary information about conf files needing to be updated if the install fails. I have this bad feeling that me not realizing that till it was to late is what is now causing … Continue reading
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About to give up
As previously mentioned I’m in the process of reinstalling Gentoo. Things just never get any better. Apparently somewhere along the way I failed to to do a update-modules which meant I didn’t have a modules.conf file. And then somewhere else … Continue reading
Posted in gnome, installing, paludis
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