planet venus cleanup
I’ve cleaned up the Planet Larry feed powered by Planet Venus quite a bit, so it should look exactly as it is when we switch over to that backend instead. … Read more »
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I’ve cleaned up the Planet Larry feed powered by Planet Venus quite a bit, so it should look exactly as it is when we switch over to that backend instead. … Read more »
Believe it or not, I love writing documentation. I dunno why. One thing I enjoy about it is taking programs that have lots of options and breaking it down into… Read more »
Don’t panic, but portage is about to tell you to downgrade your MPlayer. It’s a boring story as to why, but suffice it to say the versioning scheme is fixed… Read more »
I know people have heard me promise repeatedly over a span of quite a few months that I’ll get Planet Larry cleaned up of its various issues, but this time… Read more »
Just a quick note — if you are using media-tv/ivtv, be sure to load your I2C and Video4Linux drivers as modules in the kernel, or they will most likely not… Read more »
I’m working on bend right now, and while I’m poking through the source code and fixing bugs, I’m finding small notes about stuff. I figured some of it might be… Read more »
While packages.gentoo.org is down, I don’t enjoy it more than anyone else, but if you are really craving to browse the portage tree through a website, might I offer up… Read more »
Another small mplayer tip, that I had to google for. When building MPlayer with XvMC support, so that it will use the video card’s hardware for MPEG2 decoding (and therefore,… Read more »
I love reading Techdirt. It’s good, editorial summaries of the news that’s going on in technology news. I just saw this in my RSS feed, their take on why full… Read more »
So, how long does it take to build an HTPC with Gentoo, from scratch? How about, Gentoo + LVM2 + vesafb + bootsplash + nvidia + LIRC + mplayer +… Read more »