As much as I love gentoo, I just don’t have the time to invest anymore. Every upgrade creates more work for me.

List of programs I’ll require:
Deluge
Flexget
Samba
Apache
Php5
Mysql
Snort
Ssh
Proftp
Screen3
Mplayer
Vlc
Win32codecs
Win64codecs
Playstation Media Server and/or Firefly Media Server
Sqlite3 — flexget needs it, i prefer mysql.

emerge [package] || until emerge --resume --skipfirst; do emerge --resume --skipfirst; done
after all packages are emerged that can be (that didn’t error out)
run
emerge -pv [package]
to see the failed packages.

*note: replace [package] with the package you want to emerge (open-office for example)

Step 1: Set bash-completion USE flag

grep -q 'USE\([:space:]\)*=.*bash-completion' /etc/make.conf || sed --in-place -e 's/USE\([:space:]\)*="/USE="bash-completion /g' /etc/make.conf


Step 2a: updating world
If you had to add the use flag, you will now want to update world to ensure all necessary packages are using it.
emerge -uN world

Step 2b: emerging needed ebuilds
emerge -av bash-completion gentoo-bashcomp
This will emerge the packages you need bash-completion (programmable completion for BASH) and gentoo-bashcomp (gentoo-based BASH CLI completions)

Step 3: editing the bashrc
since most portage tools are primarily for root we’ll add the bash completion line (bash-completion recommends adding this to ~/.bashrc normally) on a more global scale by placing it in /etc/bash/bashrc
echo "[[ -f /etc/profile.d/bash-completion ]] && source /etc/profile.d/bash-completion" >>/etc/bash/bashrc
source /etc/bash/bashrc


All Done!

basic usage would look like so:
emerge ne
emerge net-
etc…

D: http://maine.craigslist.org/w4m/1352236906.html
me: im 26
D: lie
me: and not cute
D: not true
me: and i have to work at 6am
me: and it sounds like a police scam to curb underage drinking
D: i’m trying Dave..
me: to get me arrested for child molestation
D: exactly!
me: eh
D: kidding
me: not really feeling like going to jail for being a kiddy toucher
me: i like my anus as is thank you very much

I’ve been sleeping on this for a while now, it’s really an amazing tool.
Matt Farmer discussed it on his blog:

Dropbox is a great application I found out about a few months back. You create an account and install a service on a number of computers that you use, and it creates a folder that will stay in sync across all of them. The best part about this is that if any computer isn’t on, when it wakes up, it goes out and checks what it’s missed, and syncs back up, and its FAST.

There is also a sharing section, where you can share a portion of your account with another user, and let them upload and delete files. It combines your usable space for this areas, so on group projects it gets quick first. Ohh and did I mention it has its own built in file versioning system?

There’s also a special folder for Photos that will automatically generate an online picture album of any pictures / folders placed into here. Of all the features, while I like some of the other ones a whole lot more, I use this one the most. Its great when working on web sites with clients and being able to save screen shots directly to this folder and show them what I’m seeing.

When I first found out about Dropbox, I was so excited about it, I went on a big kick about how everyone should be using it, but after time this excitement died down. Well now, Dropbox is giving away an extra 256MB of storage space (up to 3GB) (on top of the 2GB you get just for signing up) for every user you refer to the site, and so I’m back at it. Check it out: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTM0OTg4Njk!

the bitter-sweet flavor relishes a constant reminder of just how much you meant. A long cold road filled with the task of swallowing this broken heart lies ahead, winding and whirling, but always empty. Happiness hides in memories and dreams now, reality has washed away all remnants of the joy once shared. As I die from inside, I sit and watch you drown your sorrows in bottle after bottle. I may be walking alone on a beaten path, but I know happiness is not hiding in the bottle of yeast. It’s hiding in you.

Change as they may.
everything always looks the same.
another day fading to an empty night.
shallow hole seems closer to fitting me right

i can’t get passed these doubts in my mind
another doors closed, the pain with fade in time.
i’m told it’s ok, plenty of days left; plenty of faces left.

a face i have, but completion i’ve lost

A picture once sought, is now a picture forever lost.

While reading up on kernel configs I stumbled upon this site:
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

This is helpful when you’re setting up a new system because all you have to do is boot a live cd and run
lspci -n
Then copy and paste the output into the textarea on the link above and click submit. poof!

note teh site it setup for debian, but this worked fairly well on my gentoo install as well…

I recently ran into an issue where my ide controller was dieing and caused me to lose my 100gig hdd (and my gentoo install) on my desktop. I took this opportunity to purchase another terabyte sata drive. My windows XP install sits on a 20gig ide hdd which is showing signs of decay due to the failing controller. My goal was to move my XP install from one drive to another while maintaining file integrity. After a little trial and error as well as a lot of researching, I found 2 ways of doing this. One of the methods is as follows:

In order to tar an XP install:

Step 1: Get ntfs3g

What is ntfs3g?

It allows you to read and write ntfs partitions via FUSE

emerge -av ntfs3g

Step 2: mount windows partition

note: in this example XP is located on hda(1) and we’ll be moving it to sda9

as root:

mkdir /mnt/xp

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/xp

Step 3: create an XP tarball

cd into the root dir of the XP partition

cd /mnt/xp

generate the tarball

tar cvjfp /[destination_dir]/XPtar.tar.bz2 *

note: replace [destination_dir] with a place to store the tarball, if you have enough space put it to the new partiton – this will be a rather large file depending on the size of your xp install.

This will take some time, figure on somewhere around an hour per 10gigs you need to backup. This, of course, is system dependent – could be faster, could be slower

Step 3.5: Burn the backup

it never hurts to have a backup!

Step 4: Show XP its new home

if you didn’t store the tarball on your new partition, copy it there now (for simplicity I’m only going to show you how to extract it form the same dir as to where it’s going. For more information on extracting to a different location, consult the man pages)

tar xvjpf XPtar.tar.bz2

easy enough, well almost. Next we’ll need to repair the mbr so XP can boot

Step 4: Fixing the MBR

Pop in your XP disc and boot it into the repair console. Run the fixmbr program to get your XP to be able to boot.

Once XP boots, reboot with your Linux install media^*, set up the Linux boot loader, and invoke it (grub-install or lilo).

^*The SysRescueCD makes this all easier as it can create and format ntfs partitions. You will still need your XP install disc to bootfix the install once it’s untarred.

Step 5: Glitches..

There will be a small glitch or two, tarring may result in one or more programs asking for its install disc. Nothing too major.

Recently, I purchased a new box to use as a (multipurpose)storage server. I have gentoo running on it headless and everything is done via ssh. To make use of this I decided I would use it as a local rsync server for my desktop and laptop to sync to, creating less bandwidth use both for my connection and the rsync mirrors…

Step 1: Configuring the deamon
First open up the /etc/rsyncd.conf file.
vi /etc/rsyncd.conf
You should see three uncommented lines as well as a few commented ones.
Insert the following commands
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
max connections = 5
use chroot = yes
uid = nobody
gid = nobody
# Optional: restrict access to your Gentoo boxes
hosts allow = 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.0/24
hosts deny = *
[gentoo-portage]
path=/usr/portage
comment=Gentoo Portage
exclude=distfiles/ packages/

Step 2: Fire It UP!
Start the rsync server:
/etc/init/rsyncd start
Add this to the startup processes:
rc-update add rsyncd default

Step 3: Scan for lifeforms
Now, preferably on a different machine to ensure everything is working, test the server out:
Make sure to replace with your server’s IP or name.
rsync 192.168.0.1::
Assuming, things are running, you should see a message similar to this:
gentoo-portage Gentoo Portage

Step 4: Setting Up CRON
Please note, that I am running vixie-cron and so I do not need to run cron /etc/crontab like if i were using Dcron or Fcron.
Since, I’m using vixie-cron I need to comment out anything in my default crontab:
sed -i -e "s/^/#/" /etc/crontab

Step 4a: [MINIHOWTO] Use Cron

Now lets get a crash-course on cron syntax…
There is always 6 columns and in this order:
minutes(0-59) hours(0-23) daysOfMonth(1-31) months(1-12) daysOfWeek(0-6)
Months and days of the week can be three-letter abbreviations as well (ie:sun,mon,tue,jan,feb,mar)
Also, note that in the daysOfWeek column 0 is sunday and 6 is saturday
Each column must be populated use an asteriks (*) for the clumns you do not want to limit.
So, to get started we need to create a file called sync.cron
vi sync.cron
Populate it like so:
#min hr dom mo dow cmd
* 3 * * * /usr/bin/emerge --sync
This will sync your portage with the rsync mirror every morning at 3am.
Next, add the cronjob we just generated to cron:
crontab sync.cron
Based on the table above, we know to verify it was added we run
crontab -l
You should see a listing formatted similar to how we made our sync.cron file

Your server is good to go!

Step 5: Configuring The Client
Now, you will need to do this for each client machine on the network.
We need to change the /etc/make.conf file to tell it to use our new local rsync mirror.
As root,
vi /etc/make.conf
Find the line that begins with SYNC= and replace it with:
SYNC="rsync://192.168.0.1/gentoo-portage"
Remember to change the IP as needed.

Step 6:
Test it out
emerge --info|grep SYNC=
You should see something similar to this:
SYNC="rsync://your_server_name/gentoo-portage"

Step 7: Use It
Now from here on out on all your client machines, when you run emerge –sync you will be accessing the portage listing from your server.

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