Gentoo is a good platform for playing with Lisp. Given it’s the only platform I’ve used for playing with Lisp other than Windows, and I doubt anything could be as bad as Windows. But Gentoo works fine.
Here are some other links that I’ll probably find useful in a few months even […]

For a long time in Gentoo, if I had the “Use my KDE style in GTK applications” option selected in KDE, certain themes would cause all GTK apps to fail to even start. Only certain QT themes did it though. Domino for example, which happens to be my favorite QT app.
I also had […]

Imagine if you will, a field of daisies. In the background, some sappy music. Perhaps Chariots of Fire? At one end of the field, running in slow motion, arms spread wide, is a pasty white, lanky, bespectacled geek. At the other end, a nondiscript black box. What is this box? […]

I had to buy a mouse for my laptop, and this Microsoft mouse is what I got. Microsoft does actually seem to make decent mouses. It’s a nice little mouse, takes one AA batter that supposedly lasts 6 months, has a little USB antenna that snaps into the base of the mouse for […]

After moving recently 2,500 miles across the country, my Gentoo machine is on the east coast while I’m on the west coast. All I have with me is my laptop, which to my everlasting regret runs Vista.
Having been forced to use Vista exclusively for a week now, I find myself more and […]

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
* Regenerating GNU info directory index…
* Processed 176 info files.
* IMPORTANT: <strong>96 config files</strong> in ‘/usr/share/X11/xkb’ need updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
* man page to learn how to update config files.
Good thing they could all be blindly overwritten. […]

Planet Larry seems not to be updating for some reason. It’s stuck on September 27th. Hope that gets cleared up soon.
It’s been a few months since I switched back to Gentoo from Ubuntu. Things are going well. Everything works fine. I don’t find myself spending any more time keeping it […]

Situation: You have two computers at different locations. One of them is behind a very restrictive firewall that doesn’t permit any incoming connections, and may be running Windows (ugh). The other is running Gentoo and is more permissive.
Problem: You want to play a game on these two computers, like ZSNES, which requires both […]

I found a need to install a Playstation emulator today, and recalling the minor nightmare installing ePSXe always turns out to be, I searched the Gentoo forums. There’s a (somewhat) new emulator called pSX which works really amazingly well. No need to hunt down video/audio/CD-ROM plugins, thank God. It just works. […]

Thank you very much to numerodix’s latest blog entry, which caused me to pay extra attention when upgrading system packages this week. I do read my elogs, but I don’t read it as carefully as I should. I know I would have missed the warning about expat1 -> 2 necessitating a revdep-rebuild. […]