Author Archives: flameeyes

Improvement continues

Posted on July 9, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay, no big deals today to report actually. I’ve fixed the baselayout ebuild that I forgot to recommit, so if you had lots of trouble after updating baselayout to the snapshot version, it should be fixed in tomorrow’s snapshot (or … Continue reading →

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Helping without coding…

Posted on July 9, 2006 by flameeyes

I want to suggest reading last Philip Rodriguez‘s entry on his blog. It’s an interesting insight of the common tasks that can be done without being developers. I agree with him, and I actually already wrote an article about it, … Continue reading →

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I have the stage

Posted on July 7, 2006 by flameeyes

So, ok, I have the stage. Which stage? Gentoo/FreeBSD 6.0 x86 stage. It’s an experimental stage for now as it’s still using portage 2.1_pre4 and the old baselayout, and I’m probably going to refresh it next week. I’m at least … Continue reading →

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The shadow and pam-login conflict

Posted on June 30, 2006 by flameeyes

Okay this is not news, but seems like it’s still a problem for someone, so I’m following fox2mike’s suggestion (from yesterday.. I initially forgot about doing so), and I’m blogging about it… So many people using ~arch or some packages … Continue reading →

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Fixing strict aliasing warnings

Posted on June 30, 2006 by flameeyes

So, up to now I usually responded to strict aliasing breakage from programs with adding -fno-strict-aliasing to be safe. In the last days I tried, on Donnie’s suggestion, to investigate of possible solutions to those strict aliasing rules breakage and … Continue reading →

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Happened while testing…

Posted on June 8, 2006 by flameeyes

Seems strange, but while I’m on AMD64 team, I don’t really mark many things.. I used to have a stable chroot to mark stable things, but I haven’t updated it in eons and then I just trashed it. I sometimes … Continue reading →

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Tip of the day: useful core dump names

Posted on June 2, 2006 by flameeyes

It’s not the first time I blog of something just not to forget about that This time it’st he turn of how to set the name of core dump files to something meaningful so that I can know which hell … Continue reading →

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When your upstream need patching

Posted on June 1, 2006 by flameeyes

Ok today here in Italy is holiday and I stopped working on the translation I’m paid for (it’s also sunday so it’s “double holiday” ). The day is good and the sun is shining so I’m out on my garden … Continue reading →

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What Fantasy/SciFi Character Are You?

Posted on May 31, 2006 by flameeyes

From harshy’s blog, I took this test and… The funny thing is that Elrond was the name of my character on Ultima OnLine for a long time

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KDE 3.5 beta1 is coming your way

Posted on May 25, 2006 by flameeyes

If you haven’t noticed that my commits in the last days were less than usual, well you’re going to have quite a bit of a surprise in the next days I’m currently waiting for KDE 3.5 beta1 to compile, after … Continue reading →

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