Recently I got around to installing a new Strato VServer of the medium powerful sort. Instead of bothering with Ubuntu, I wanted Gentoo. Strato (like many other virtual hosters) uses Virtuozzo/OpenVZ and after a few glitches the installation was relatively painless. Strato provides a recovery system which mounts the disk of the virtual server in some [...]
Tag Archives: gentoo
rm -rf lipsync
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 18. August 2011
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In my search for a fully open-source powered and self-hosted Dropbox replacement I have tried lipsync. I’m usually not much of a ranter, but lipsync is a fail. It’s mechanism is a weird combination of daemon and cronjob, running a another daemon (lsyncd), calling rsync in weird ways making it fall. I could not get [...]
Connecting an mtp device
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 23. July 2011
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For the GalaxyTab 10.1 Samsung had a special surprise: No USB-mass storage support. I don’t know if that saves space, energy, money, or if they were just bribed by Microsoft to omit this feature. I find it annoying and this proprietary “syncing” of media was always something I found ridiculous about iDevices. So when you [...]
The silent invasion of the gnome desktop
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 29. December 2010
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As my desktop I’m using a bit of KDE infrastructure (power management and such) but with the fabulous openbox as my window manager. Then lately some KDE applications started failing on me. Kopete had hard to reproduce crashes in connection with OTR, amarok suddenly pauses sometimes without any obvious reason, and that plasma desktop is [...]
Redoing e-mail
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 27. December 2010
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Both the number of my e-mail accounts and also the number of messages in the respective archive-folders has been increasing dramatically. I had been using Thunderbird for as long as I could remember, but at some point last fall I was just too disappointed about performance and especially some features(keybindings!) not being configurable. I wanted [...]
Virtual Dev Boxes
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 24. December 2010
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Shorty: Here is my tiny guide on how to set up virtual machines for archtesting or dev work. Shorty: Here is my tiny guide on how to set up virtual machines for archtesting or dev work.
identica-mode
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 28. November 2010
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I have discovered microblogging as a nice non-intrusive way of communication that I can also safely ignore for a while when busy. Real programmers use emacs for this and there Gabriel’s identica-mode comes in handy. With it we instantly have regexp search, tab-completion, and all the other well known goodies! A few glitches could be resolved [...]
Computeralgebra on Gentoo
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 12. November 2010
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Here’s my story: In 2008 bugs for sci-mathematics/Macaulay2 had been accumulating and eventually Macaulay was removed from Gentoo. Using this software daily, I was very frustrated that a few header changes could not be applied which would have stopped QA-induced removal. It was back then that I looked at an ebuild for the first time. [...]
Interessante Software
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 10. October 2010
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Das schöne an der Open Source Welt sind manchmal auch die Softwareperlen die in diesem Ökosystem eine Nische finden. Gerade versuche ich ein aktuelles Ebuild für das Algebrasystem Axiom zusammenzuschrauben, was gar nicht so einfach ist da es gebündelte Kopien von alten Lisps und gmps mitbringt… aber das ist ein anderes Thema. Axiom ist in [...]
Geschwindigkeit
Posted by Thomas Kahle on 22. September 2010
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Manchmal ist die Internetverbindung nach Deutschland hier extrem langsam. Ich hatte noch meine Gentoo-Mirrors aus Deutschland konfiguriert und an schlechten Tagen bekommt man da so 10-20kb/s. Da das Gleiche für meine eigene Seite und das Herunterladen der digitaz gilt nehme ich mal an, dass der Schweden-Deutschland Traffic über Taiwan geroutet wird. Für die Gentoo-Downloads ist [...]
