Monthly Archives: April 2006

Six eyes are better than four?

Posted on April 29, 2006 by flameeyes

Probably a bad joke as a title, but considering that I slept only 6 hours this night it’s the best I can find Yesterday I wasn’t present on FreeNode, and that is something strange… the reason of this is that … Continue reading →

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Blog moves…

Posted on April 24, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, until dsd_ have time to update the feeds, I’d like to point the Gentoo/*BSD and multimedia updates followers that my new blog is at http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ , that is my main Gentoo/FreeBSD box. It’s going to be a stability test, … Continue reading →

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Fighting the PAM bugs

Posted on April 21, 2006 by flameeyes

So, even tonight I wasn’t able to sleep. And this is bad. I had to sleep in the afternoon, that is even worse. But not like I can do much about that right now. I have to say I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Finally xine-lib is fixed!

Posted on April 20, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, third blog entry in less than a day, but this is worth a small note. Do anybody remember that xine-lib makes amaroK and any other frontend crash when trying to play/access an mp3 file when mad is not enabled? … Continue reading →

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If you can’t sleep… bump!

Posted on April 20, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, so tonight I wasn’t able to sleep. It’s been a while my sleep was intermittent, and tonight was a “no” night. For this reason, I spent the whole night fixing stuff and bumping. Some things are worth noting as … Continue reading →

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Still a few updates

Posted on April 20, 2006 by flameeyes

So a few more updates, although today was a bad work on my ‘daily job’ as I had to recode a good part of one of the utilities I was asked to develop when I started the job to integrate … Continue reading →

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Doing the crosscompile work

Posted on April 19, 2006 by flameeyes

So, I’ve already tried in the past to get a working crosscompiler to FreeBSD from my amd64 box, mainly to distcc stuff. Unfortunately, to have that working last time I had to install the headers manually, I had to mess … Continue reading →

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Today was a good day for sound

Posted on April 18, 2006 by flameeyes

Indeed. Today while I was thinking over the code I wrote for my programmer’s job I iterated over the whole list of bugs for sound@ to try to nail it down a bit. This allowed me to cut my own … Continue reading →

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I’m going to re-prepare a true G/FBSD box

Posted on April 17, 2006 by flameeyes

Finally, after quite a bit of time. What made me change my decision of using vmware-server? Well it’s mainly a factor of time and an opportunity I’ve seen just today. When I bought the new monitor, I bought one which … Continue reading →

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When I’d like to live somewhere else

Posted on April 17, 2006 by flameeyes

No this time I’m not referring to the political scene in Italy, but to a practical problem. I’ll be working on a webapplication that has to be written in Ruby on Rails. I’m not exactly a Ruby expert but I … Continue reading →

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