Archive for January, 2004

Bit5Blog False Positives…

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Just as note… if anyone ever see’s two entries here… please disregard them as I am running into interesting errors with Bit5Blog. Even though entries are posted… an error is returned indicating a “Connection Refused”…. eh…
Note to self: report bug…

GCC+GLIBC issues once again…

Friday, January 30th, 2004

You would think I would learn… I have found through my experience with gentoo that running emerge -u world is not as straight forward as they want you to think… I have for another time in a row ran into issues where programs suddenly become unstable after such an update. What [...]

Portage is like Swiss-Cheese…

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Every now and then I run into a software project mentioned somewhere such as freshmeat.net, or the Linux Journal that I want to give a try and find that it’s no where to be seen in the portage tree. Even though similar ebuilds are available. One specific example is a project called GnoCHM, [...]

Alliant TechSystems Inc. Acquires Mission Research Corporation

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Well it’s official. The company that I work for [Mission Research Corporation] is being aquired by ATK [Alliant Techsystems Inc.]. Many of the guys that I with have been through this before with companies that they have previously worked with… but I’m fairly concerned as that stability of my job has gone from [...]

KDE Emerge Problems Continued

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Even thought I followed the emerge gcc suggestion that the gentoo forums mention but I still am having issues with updating arts-1.1.5.

configure: error: “no known STL type found – did you forget to install libstdc++-devel ?”
died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure
*
* Your KDE program installation died while running the configure script
*
*
* If [...]

Gentoo Linux Updates

Wednesday, January 28th, 2004

Well, tonight I’ve started my updates on my laptop but have ran into a couple issues of note. emerge -puD gnome brought on the need a madplay (which was not previously used). The emerge madplay failed twice due to ldconfig errors, which resulted in the re-emerging of libid3tag & libmad. I “think” [...]

Gnome vs. KDE

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Well to give kind of a recap: Over the past year I have been using linux heavily at work. With the help of OpenOfficeOpenOffice and Win4Lin (for Visio) I become a linux convert… for… almost everything (except games & advanced video editing). Currently, I’m in the process of giving Gnome a [...]

It Begins!

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

Today I officially begin the start of my blog… I know it isn’t much but it’ll be something. What you will find here is random stuff that I find interesting, issues that I’m concerned with, and times that I just feel like ripping someone’s head off. So I hope you enjoy it… I [...]

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