Some stuff I was hacking away on at work today; this is mostly a note to self:

The tl;dr version:

1. double-check commands you type when playing with disks
2. triple-check commands you type when playing with disks
3. see #1 and #2
4. the way to "refresh" the list of iscsi targets on the initiator is `iscsiadm modify discovery -t enable` (yes, I already had it ( Read more... )

Well, this is another one wasted, I think...

hmm...apparently you can't make an empty post; but that's neither here nor there ( Read more... )

# time prepare_disk /dev/hda1
Real: ~4h

# time install gentoo
Real: ~2h

# cd /usr/src/linux
# time make menuconfig
Real: 30m

# time make && make install
Real: ~2h

# time emerge ratpoison
Real: 30m

# time emerge xorg-x11
Real: ~2h

# time emerge mozilla-firefox
Real: 6h 43m 16.635s

I am so glad I chose ratpoison over gnome.

( Translated from my Japanese post on Gree )

( It's a long one )

So... Hanzo is the remaining working hardware from my old linux server (squat) which had its hard drives both die the moment I plugged it in.

( In which I learn the importance of remembering you have backups )

Okay, so I've just started working on this program that I'm gonna get finished Sometime™.

( This won't make much sense )

That should have been "lord of Gigas," not "lord of Gigas."

Really Square-Enix, you should know by now that we only really read the words that are in bold.

http://speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/

Oh dear gods...what have the Wachowski brothers done now...

So I decided I should log into my router and see if I could edit the config files to make it work gooder under linux.

( foo )