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Well, despite my better judgement I have once again jumped down the path of trying something that just got released. Reiser4 was officially released sometime around Aug 22, of which I noted on osnews.com. I then proceeded to start my gigantic tarball of my system in order to reformat under the new fs. [...]

Yes, it’s release is kinda old news already, BUT I have some screenshots of area’s that I have noticed a few changes. Some of them ranging from the nicely cleaned up kontact configuration (it feels more complete now than just a UI to slap all those apps together…) to the newly added KWordQuiz (which [...]

The return of the ever important wish list. I promise that I have absolutely no qualms with anyone purchasing any of these fine products for me…

For the windows users out, which I will admit I still use for gaming, Microsoft has posted a knowledge base article detailing as list of programs that can potentially be affected by the the recent Service Pack 2.

Time for your daily dose of bug ridden software. Unfortunately I, and many others, have found the newest gentoo dev sources release of the 2.6 kernel to be quite buggy. Some of the issues mentioned range from bootsplash not working, cdrw & dvd-rw drives not being recognized by recording apps, and vfat not [...]

I thought I’d go ahead and post a fix that I have noticed in terms of the monitor patch that can be applied to the orinoco driver provided with the linux kernel. The version provided of course does not give this functionality (making kismet, airtraf and other wireless monitoring based apps useless), but a [...]

This past week I have been dealing with the fun task of creating what I call “desktop stages” for my gentoo installs. Simply put I’m taking the concept of the stage tarballs provided by gentoo a step further with a pre-compiled kernel, my favorite de’s and other common apps. I currently create two, [...]

The August (#105) edition of the popular linux tech. webzine is now available with the following articles…

The Mailbag

More 2 Cent Tips!

The Answer Gang

News Bytes, by Michael Conry
Fvwm, by Thomas Adam
How To Enable Desktop Icons for Lightweight Window Managers, by John Murray
White Box Linux Kickstart Tricks, by Mark Nielsen
Securing a New Linux Installation, by Barry O’Donovan
RDF [...]

I have found multiple times that it best to comment or remove any lines referring to the -j# option for GCC before compiling openmotif (really doesn’t seem to like this for some reason).
#MAKE_OPTS=”-j2″

I have just completed a massive update to gallery ( –> 1.4.4, which adds many new features such as RSS feeds on changes to the gallery ) and added a about 40-50 new pictures from both my work’s summer picnic and from this weekends performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I [...]