Markus Duft [writes][1]: I’m preparing to conquer the world (again) ;). To achieve my goal, I have prepared a new Gentoo Prefix on Windows Setup, and the according documentation. Video demonstrating the installation of Gentoo Prefix/Windows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az1RR60s5n4 Grab the latest iso’s from: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/prefix/x86-interix/20090826/ Docs: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mduft/gpx-installation-20090820.pdf (also available on the DVD installer) [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/5064
Over the past weekend, I was at Sky Knights skydiving drop zone near Milwaukee, WI. The main event was the [canopy relative work (CRW)][3] state record attempts. I had only participated in approximately 25 CRW jumps before this, but I was able to add another 13 jumps this weekend. The previous state record for CRW in Wisconsin was 14 and this year we completed a 25 way diamond on our second attempt to set the new record.
We are cleaning up the XFCE ebuilds via a new eclass. The current eclasses do not make maintenance any easier, like they should. Some other things on the TODO list include: Remove xfce-4.4 from the tree. 4.6.1 has long since been stable. Caveats: We promised mips that they could have a ~month to keyword 4.6.1. [Gentoo Prefix][2] can’t easily use 4.6.1 due to the xorg-server dependency. Rename plugins to match what upstream calls them.
If you happen to be on an AIX 5.x host using [Gentoo Prefix][1]. Then you might see something like this eventually: /bin/sh[3]: /home/jolexa/portage/aix-5.3/bin/chmod: arg list too long This is caused by build systems that use wildcards or even ebuilds that have no issues on a normal GNU/Linux system. To work around this, you need to change the ARG/ENV list size in 4K byte blocks. The default value in AIX 5.x is 6.
About a month ago, I hit my 600th skydive. It wasn’t anything special per se as the weather was quite sub-optimal that day. Just a solo from ~3000 ft However, it is a milestone that should not go unmentioned. This puts me at about 80 jumps for the calendar year and it is below my previous year [numbers][1]. (I blame the overall weather this year.) Hopefully I can pick it up abit towards the latter half of the year.