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Gentoo
Some new hardware
I was thinking a lot about my “server” / “storage” concept at home; my current server is way to big, loud and everything. Finally, I decided to go for some NAS – these boxes do not cost a lot nowadays, and they are silent, do not use much power and are still fast and reliable. [...]
Mediawiki 1.3.0 broken in Gentoo
As I wanted to start with my studies revisions on M362 today, I realized that I couldn’t access my mediawiki-environment with all my notes any more! The error message was something about a missing “includes/parser.php” file (“no such file or directory”). When I googled for this, I stumbled upon a corresponding Gentoo bug – apparently, [...]
Installing my new Brother MFC-7820N
I bought a Brother MFC-7820N; although I do not currently intend to use the fax capabilities, the device is good in all aspects, I assume. What especially impressed me is the Linux support Brother gives. The device is not attached to my server – instead, it is directly attached to my network via LAN (it [...]
Fixing bootsplash
Since a while, my bootsplash (the nice logo that shows up when booting Linux and thus hiding all the kernel messages) does not work any more. The reason apparently is that some things have changed…. I started working through the wiki-entry, but soon detected that the vesafb-tng driver is not supported any more. I found [...]
SDL dependencies
After a long break, I updated my Gentoo installation (I was more working on Windows, recently – mainly for studying reasons…) After that, when issueing the usual “revdep-rebuild”, I encountered some errors that turned out to be some dependencies on SDL; the corresponding configure routines warned about something like: checking for sdl-config… /usr/bin/sdl-config checking for [...]
