Archive for the 'Computers' Category

Fun with archaic machines

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

My PentiumII sidekick-machine, avatar, was supposed to receive a CPU upgrade today with a Celeron 633 MHz CPU, but alas, PCB revision which supports CPUs faster than 400 MHz must be at least v2.0 and my mobo is only v1.7. Crap.

avatar had a nice uptime of 88 days, but then the HDD failure happened and it’s offline since then. 300 MHz have really did a nice job running fluxbox over TightVNC and monitoring the network with Cacti, among other things, including doing the print serving job… I must get a new hard drive for it.

sendxmpp

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Nice application for sending all kinds of text (ie. cron outputs and warnings on machines you administer) directly to your JID or even chatroom!

Example:
[code]cat SOMETHING | sendxmpp -u SRC-USERNAME -p SRC-PASSWORD -j SRC-SERVER -t -s “SUBJECT” DST-USERNAME@DST-SERVER[/code]

Opet konqueror

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

U traženju reÅ¡enja za ovaj problem postovao sam topic na Gentoo forumima, napisao bug report, kompajlirao sa ovim i onim CFLAGS, ukljuÄ?ujući i -static i - niÅ¡ta.

Onda sam proverio kompletan dependency tree kdebase-a sa –emptytree emerge opcijom gledajući Å¡ta bih mogao da re-emergujem. Sveo sam uži izbor na 11 paketa: jpeg libpng openslp tiff freetype fontconfig libtool ttmkfdir lcms libmng qt. Koje nagaÄ‘anje… Sve do qt-a se iskompajliralo bez problema, Ä?ije je kompajliranje puklo sa greÅ¡kom da libfontconfig.so.1 nije pronaÄ‘en. w00t!

Onda vidim da stvarno ta biblioteka ne postoji?! Re-emergujem fontconfig - niÅ¡ta. qpkg -f /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 - niÅ¡ta. cd /var/db/pkg && cat */*/CONTENTS | grep libfontconfig.so - niÅ¡ta! Uh… PokuÅ¡am da pokrenem beep-media-player - neće. Pomislim da se možda zvuÄ?na nije zakucala, ili ranije pokrenuti bmp… Nema veze, muziku ću pustiti kasnije, da pogledam Å¡ta Google kaže za ovu biblioteku…

Na netu niÅ¡ta o tome kom paketu ta biblioteka pripada, pa rekoh da vidim da li je na Jabberu neko online od ljudi koji koriste Gentoo da urade qpkg -f, kad ono, Psi neće da se pokrene?! Pokrenut iz konzole lepo izbaci error da mu nema jedne biblioteke… PogaÄ‘ate.

Onda shvatim da praktiÄ?no sve X aplikacije traže taj lib Å¡to fali, krenem da gubim živce, zamolim jednu drugaricu IRCerku da pita #gentoo-ovce na Freenode-u kom paketu pripada taj lib, na Å¡ta će oni da je deo fontconfig paketa… Uh, pa nije, probao sam… I onda se setim:

-static

Downtime, posao, etc.

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

imped.net je bio down par dana… Razlog? Hardverski problemi, upgrade sistema, vraćanje bekapa. RazmiÅ¡ljam da prebacim imped na drugi hosting, Å¡to ću najverovatnije i da uradim kad budem imao malo viÅ¡e vremena. Treba dumpovati sve baze, prebaciti sve usere i poddomene… Polako.

Bio sam na konkursu za posao u EUnetu, za “inženjera TP”. Sve je proÅ¡lo super, u ponedeljak mi je prvi radni dan. ;)

Ovih dana se muÄ?im da nateram konqueror da radi kako treba. Zeza me neki Ä?udan bug, koji se izgleda deÅ¡ava samo meni, iako nemam niÅ¡ta neregularno na sistemu, niti sam preterano bleeding edge Å¡to se bitnih delova sistema tiÄ?e, tj. sve bitno je stable i kompajlirano je sa blagim CFLAGS. Drugo reÅ¡enje, izgleda i jedino, je da saÄ?ekam novi KDE da se pojavi za par dana, ako sve sa RC proÄ‘e okej.

Ćuti, sine, i plivaj

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

SmeÅ¡na priÄ?a o tome kuda MS softver vodi, u bukvalnom, ovaj, bukvalnim znaÄ?enjima te reÄ?i… ;)

PS: linkovi u “related stories” odeljku su fenomenalni, obavezno ih proverite!

doorman Gentoo ebuild

Saturday, January 29th, 2005

doorman je zanimljiva port knocking implementacija. Više o tome ovde, ebuild skinite ovde (otpakujte u root PORTAGE_OVERLAY-a).

Top ten signs you’re a Google freak

Friday, January 21st, 2005

10. Your kids still believe the Googlebot is bringing the Christmas presents.
9. Your reply to “How are you” is “I’m feeling lucky”, combined with a clicking gesture.
8. You shout at the librarian when she takes more than 0.1 seconds to find your book.
7. You just lost a case in court to name your newborn son “Google”.
6. You think of Google as your second-best friend, but lately consider it to get into first position.
5. Your Google shirt is losing color.
4. When people talk to you, you try to optimize their keywords.
3. Your last three Sunday family trips have been to the Googleplex.
2. You are convinced “What’s your PageRank?” is a good pick-up line.

And the number one sign you are addicted to Google:
1. You are completely clueless without a computer.

(Hvala valexu)

LAME 3.90.3 Gentoo ebuild

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

Pošto je 3.90.3 još uvek recommended verzija, prepravio sam ebuild od verzije 3.96. Koga ne mrzi, neka pogleda zašto gtk podrška ne radi kako treba (ili to samo kod mene ne radi).

Da skratim priÄ?u, ebuild preuzmite ovde, prekopirajte u $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/media-sound/lame (napravite direktorijume ako fale), potom uradite:

[code]ebuild $PORTDIR_OVERLAY/media-sound/lame/lame-3.90.3.ebuild digest

emerge =lame-3.90.3[/code]

($PORTDIR_OVERLAY zamenite sa putanjom do OVERLAY direktorijuma)

To je to.

Lep tekst o Gentoo Linux-u

Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Link: “Gentoo for All the Unusual Reasons”.

“http” URL u Firefoxu

Friday, January 7th, 2005

SluÄ?ajno sam uneo samo “http” za adresu u Firefoxu… Hm… Zanimljiv rezultat.