I've not written about Gentoo for quite sometime, and that's primarily because I was too lazy to update my dev blog. Since Livejournal has been doing tag based rss feeds for a while now, I thought I'll get it updated at the planet and should hopefully write a bit more ( Read more... )

Short chat in #gentoo-doc on freenode...

<@fox2mike> rane: ping
<@rane> what's up?
<@fox2mike> if I'm lucky
<@fox2mike> I'll be seeing Sharapova at the Australian Open
<@fox2mike> I'm leaving for Australia in 2 days :p
<@rane> oh damn
<@rane> i hope you plane breaks
<@rane> :-)

And a few days ago...

fox2mike/Gaim: and then, I'm going to the ( Read more... )

Well, back in 1994, when I got my first ever Creative Multimedia set..it was a big deal. Having a 2x CDROM Drive was an even bigger deal. Along with that pack, came a set of nice games (didn't realise they were nice until quite a few years later). One of the CDs was a combo pack of Syndicate, an awesome strategy + rule the world sort of game based ( Read more... )

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A quick follow-up to the last post...

So you're stuck somewhere and badly need to help your dad with something on the computer at home. I've been in this situation quite a bit and well, I've usually ended up trying to troubleshoot over the phone with minimal success. Enter x11vnc. Here's a quick guide on getting it working on Gentoo.

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trinity is currently a Dell Inspiron 4100 and yeah, I'm kind of attached to that name, so all my work boxen (the ones I use) have always been and probably will be named trinity in a salute of sorts to Carrie Ann-Moss aka the real Trinity (Matrix). Heh. Clicky for a screenie, maybe I'll post some photos later ( Read more... )

Quite a delayed entry...but better late than never. ti22 & myself reached the Yashwantpur Railway station at around 1930 on the 17th Night. The train (Yashwantpur - Cannanore Express) left about 5 minutes reached, pulled a passenger train stunt on us (by going pretty slowly through most of the journey) and chugged into Calicut 30 minutes late at 0845 ( Read more... )

I'll be giving a talk at NITC on Gentoo Linux as part of their FOSS.NITC event.

Looking forward to a fun weekend :)

PS: ti22 is coming along with me and I'll meet up with the usual bunch of suspects at the event :)

One fine night on #gentoo-doc, irc.freenode.net...

22:36:17 <@fox2mike> Groningen
22:36:28 <@fox2mike> is that pronounced Gro nin gen ?
22:38:03 < rane> we still didn't agree how to pronounce Gentoo...
22:38:13 < rane> and wonder how to say Groningen? :)
22:39:18 <@neysx> Gentoo pronunciation is explained in the faq, groningen: depends on where ( Read more... )

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