http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ en-us doug@shoutstudios.com 2006-01-20T13:45:25-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000316.html While reading some of the comments on a digg.com posting, I ran across a nice new find. I've been using both my laptop and desktop at work for a long while now, and it can get annoying at times to... 316@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2006-01-20T13:45:25-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000279.html While trying to add the gnome-keyboard-applet to my gnome 2.8 panel, (in order to switch to Dvorak), I managed to stumble upon a problem I had a while back. For some reason, adding this applet causes the gnome-panel to crash,... 279@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-08-29T11:51:44-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000259.html Last night, I finally got tethering between my T637 and laptop working. I had the two tethered before, but I could not get signed on to their network to allow me to surf the net using my phone as a... 259@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-05-28T19:08:55-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000258.html I have been having intermittent problems using Rhythmbox with ESD on my laptop playing MP3's. Every now and then, and not at a regular interval, I would get an error message when rhythmbox would go to switch songs. The error... 258@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-05-27T15:10:00-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000232.html I finally bit the bullet and just went out and bought a D-Link DBT-120 bluetooth dongle since I was going to pay the same amount, if not more, trying to win one on e-bay, plus I would have to wait... 232@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ UGH! 2005-02-09T13:19:52-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000224.html Now that I have finally got my Sony Ericsson T637 Bluetooth enabled phone, the fun has begun with setting up the bluetooth on my Gentoo laptop. I currently have a couple of bids in on ebay for a D-Link DBT-120... 224@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2005-01-28T14:53:19-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000204.html I'm running the testing flavor of Gentoo on my laptop (and my server for that matter) and noticed that the new version of tar is broken. Of course, this is after I start to pull 600 MB of source and... 204@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-11-01T10:39:24-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000187.html I finally got 3D support working on my laptop. I have the NVidia GeForce2 card and was able to get the basic nvidia support working before, but never the 3D support. I am running kernel 2.6.7 and nvidia-kernel 1.0.6111. Here... 187@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-08-13T20:54:24-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000185.html I got my new harddrive yesterday for my laptop, and my machine has been chugging away at source code for the past 24 hours or so. This install of Gentoo is going much smoother than the last time I did... 185@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-08-04T20:40:51-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000150.html Well, my laptop spent the better part of the long weekend busy compiling away at all 500MB + of update sourcecode. Luckily, no major issues at all, just a few minor bugs that I had to work around once everything... 150@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-05-31T22:30:30-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000149.html I found out this morning while doing my usual emerge sync that Gnome 2.6 is now marked as stable for the Gentoo distribution of Linux. I took a look at the output of a pretend update and there are now... 149@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-05-28T11:35:12-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000138.html I've had X running beautifully on my Dell Inspiron 8200 for a while now, but noticed that I was unable to switch to a normal text console once I logged into X. I asked my trusty friend John what was... 138@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-05-10T09:45:43-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000115.html Upon a recomendation from Carlos, I am installing Xine and GXine so that I can watch streaming video from MSNBC (even after my disappointment with their site). I started the emerge, and got the following error: libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libGL.la' is... 115@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-03-22T11:35:17-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000062.html I decided to do an "emerge sync" on my Gentoo box and I don't like what I'm seeing. Most of this does not scare me, but I don't really like re-compiling GCC or QT/arts. I had such a good time... 62@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-02-13T11:27:15-05:00 http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/archives/000058.html For my benefit and Stacey's, here are the steps I use to successfully update my gentoo box. emerge sync emerge -UDp --world emerge -UD --world (make sure everything looks fine from the last step) revdep-rebuild (this will rebuild everything that... 58@http://www.shoutstudios.com/~doug/blog/ Gentoo on my Dell 8200 2004-02-05T13:03:28-05:00