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We’re Now Live with Gentoo!

JonnyFunFun — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:46:38 +0000

Okay, so I broke down, and got myself that dedicated server. Good news is that I got a coupon code and got it for cheaper than I had thought! So now, we’re running live on a Gentoo Linux-powered dedicated server in some datacenter in Florida. Please note that the Subversion repositories are down, as is the Redmine project management. The Brew Place, and many things Vault Head Games, are also down for the time being. I would have probably gotten the repositories back online tonight before I threw in the towel, but ColdFusion was not being very nice to me and I had some problems in getting isolated instances of ColdFusion running with each Apache virtual host. Needless to say, the Adobe documentation when it comes to Linux is extremely poor. However, after I’m all done with this beast, we will have our own IRC server and a web server that will understand practically every modern, dynamic web language (including (but not limited to) PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, Python, and Ruby). I’m strapped with time, however, but regardless, I’m working very quickly to get everything back up and running, so check back here often for updates!

All your bash are belong to us!

JonnyFunFun — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:06:42 +0000

So I was bored today, and decided I would take the entire ‘Zero Wing’ intro video script and translate it into Linux and bash commands. And here is the result:

#!/bin/bash
cd A.D. 2101
touch war
echo !!
su somebody chown us:us /bomb
wall 'signal'
startx
who
ps au
find / -user you -name base -exec chown us:us {} \;
mv you -i /dev/null
tail /var/log/messages
find / -user you -iname 'chance to survive' \
    -exec chown nobody:nobody {} \;
make ~/time
read -p "Captain!!"
mv zig /
read –p "You know what you doing?"
for great in justice; do
    find / -name zig -exec mv {} . \;
done

Enlightenment DR17, Gentoo, and a PowerPC

JonnyFunFun — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:26:42 +0000

So I have an old PowerBook “Pismo” that I inherited for nothing. It originally had Mac OS X on it, but it ran it way too slow for my likes – so I decided to put Linux on it – Gentoo to be specific. After getting the system working, which was actually extremely easy I might add (with the exception of the Hermes-I wireless card not supporting WPA), I went on to put X and a window manager in. I wanted to use Enlightenment because it’s fast, it’s cool, and because I like it.

After using layman to add the portage overlay and performing a –pretend install from emerge, I saw that E17 had been masked ~ppc. I scoured through the internet to see if there was some logic to it being masked against the PowerPC architecture, but could not find anything entirely definitive (or at least definitive and less than two years old). So, I decided to simply just ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=”~ppc” emerge -av e and pray for the best.

So what’s the purpose of this post, you might ask? Well, to make a long story short – Enligtenment DR17 works perfectly on the PowerPC architecture (or at least the revision I have checked out from SVN does). So if you’re a fellow Gentoo user who wants to install E17 on your PowerPC machine – I’m here to tell you that, for now, it works. Just accept the keyword, emerge it and enjoy your new WM!