Author: Vic Cross

We're now well into Day Four of the Gentoo gcc/glibc update.  Part of the reason it's taking so long is that it seems to have missed gtk early on, and anything that depends on gtk is failing its ebuild.  So a lot of the good overnight processing time has been squandered sitting at an "emerge failed" error.  Then, … Continue reading Gentoo games

Since my heart attack in 2004, my cardiologist has had me on a drug called simvastatin.  He prescribed it to me on the basis that it was meant to keep my cholesterol level under control -- I did not have high cholesterol, he just wanted to make sure that it didn't get out of control.  After my … Continue reading The preventative medicine that does stuff too!

I've bitten the bullet and kicked off the upgrade to GCC 4.1.1.  I'll get my system back in about a week I reckon... :)Gentoo recommends a process that starts off rebuilding GCC and glibc, but continues on to rebuild your entire system.  Fair enough too: mixing binaries built with different compilers and linked against different library levels … Continue reading Gentoo GCC/glibc update

Okay, I think the problem is fixed...  This post should be a  verification of that.  Once again, huge apologies to anyone who might be  subscribed via RSS and whose reader didn't make sense of the multiples. I subscribe to this blog (subscribing to your own blog--how vain is  that) using Akgregator.  The only weird thing I saw with it was one  extra … Continue reading Should be fixed now

What a mess.  This new feature I was so proud of seems to have really caused a flap.  It repeated the same blog entry over and over, evey half-hour, for the last day!  We're debugging the problem, and know what the workaround is to avoid a repeat.  I just hope that anyone viewing this via RSS wasn't driven too … Continue reading …and promptly broke it again

I just had an occurrence of one of those "something that was right at the time but comes back to bite" situations.  Some time ago, probably at the time that Gentoo ebuilds for PHP changed from dev-php to dev-lang, the instructions at the time said that a bunch of USE flags had to be specified for … Continue reading We fixed the blog…

I haven't been keeping a close eye on my hitmap.  I have to admit that I really only registered it so that I could visualise the places I visited on my world-jaunt in March 06.  Nor have I ever spent much time checking out the excellent website analysis that my installation of AWStats provides.  This will change, as … Continue reading Hitmap and stats

I think I tried to get back into things too soon.  My angiogram wound site has been giving me a lot of grief the last day or so.  So it's back to semi-time at work, and more rest -- difficult when Susan is terribly sick with the cold/flu/infection she's carrying.When I had my first angiogram (two years … Continue reading Back active too soon

I'm getting to the bottom of my IPCop VPN problem.  Basically it's a side effect of what I thought was a really neat feature of my sister's Speedtouch ADSL modem that has bitten me.The neat feature in question is a kind of IP address passthrough it provides.  It allows the modem to maintain the ADSL connection to … Continue reading More on VPNs (or, moron VPNs)…

Talking about VPNs in the last message made me realise a bunch of work I've done over the last month trying to set up a net-to-net IPSec VPN to my sister's place using IPCop.  End result (so far, as I won't let it rest) is that it's not working and I'm stuffed if I can work … Continue reading IPCop and VPNs