At least, for now. I just watched something I honestly hadn't seen since 1997, when I was running Windows 95 on a machine that didn't even have 2D acceleration. I just watched something appear row-by-row as it was being drawn on the screen. I don't think it was supposed to look like that.

My GPU is built-in to my Pentium B940. This GPU has more ( Read more... )

My brother wanted to know how to manage a large open-source project when, in his words, you have programmers who can come and go with little warning. Here was my response:

• All successful open-source projects have a small group (even if it's just one) of developers who are dedicated. Either because they believe it, or because they're paid. The ( Read more... )

So I've got kvm working fine under Gentoo.[1] Right away, I know that I want to start moving system services off of wash (my Debian router which is to be retired) into VMs. Since I have VMs to work with, it naturally follows that I can split each service into its own VM for sandboxing purposes; squid will get its own VM, the Samba4 AD DC will get ( Read more... )

So, virt-manager and I had a fight today. There were several incorrectly-configured connections showing up which I couldn't persistently delete (they'd show back up on next start), or which I couldn't delete at all (this may be more related to libvirt hanging the UI on connection completion, but it was hard to tell ( Read more... )

For those in the know, what's the significant difference between the purposes of pkg-config and libtool? Why are these two different things?

Quoted from the Gentoo-user mailing list:On 2013-03-14, Dale wrote:I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such?
I just did a test, and they're all the same. CDs/DVDS of various distros dropped from a height of 1m all hit ( Read more... )

Before you say "LMGTFY" in response to a public query, here are four things you should consider:

Search engines tend to return results similar to things you've clicked on in the past, so if your previous searches have been fruitless, your future searches become more likely to be fruitless as well, as the search engine favors resources it's seen you ( Read more... )

So, our garbage disposal hadn't worked in a while. There was a switch under the sink which sorta worked at first, then had to be held in the "ON" position to work, and then had to be held in the "ON" position harder to work...and eventually it simply stopped working ( Read more... )

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Still in my initially-enamored phase, but these are very nice: Howard Leight R-01526 Impact Sport Electronic Earmuff


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