New online home

If you have rss feeds to my old WP hosted blog, you may want to check them now and update if needed. That blog is closed for comments and I’ll rid google of it after it fully picks up this site. (Over 20,000 hits over there, thanks!) My new home is located on a Gentoo VPS from a provider called [Linode][3]. I have nothing but good things to say about Linode right now.

Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 on Gentoo

Since there isn’t anything extremely relevant in google when searching for “gentoo quickcam pro 9000” – I hope this helps someone. I solicited advice from the community for a webcam a couple months back and my girlfriend used the comments to buy me this model for Christmas. It works great, so thanks for recommending it people. =) As Marcus Hanwell [wrote][2] some 7 months ago, it is easy to setup. To set this cam up, make sure you have a recent kernel (>=2.6.26 – don’t quote me on exact version.

Today's rant What is 'bikeshedding' ?

I knew the general concept of this word but it was thrown around today so I decided to research it. Parkinson’s Law of Triviality (also known as the bicycle shed example, and by the expression colour of the bikeshed) is C. Northcote Parkinson’s 1957 argument that organisations give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. source Made famous in software development by Poul-Henning Kamp (FreeBSD dev) *“The really, really short answer is that you should not.

Gentoo Prefix now supports FreeMiNT

So..what does this mean? In a nutshell..Gentoo Prefix works on the OS that runs on an Atari. Cool, eh? We owe this to the hard work of AlanH, as seen here and here. As always, we are at [#gentoo-prefix][6] and the gentoo-alt mailing list if you are interested. [6]: irc://irc.gentoo.org/gentoo-prefix

Gentoo Prefix Updates

It has been awhile since I last wrote about the Gentoo Prefix project. I will update the inquiring minds that want to know… Gentoo Prefix’s irc channel is now #gentoo-prefix. We use to inhabit #gentoo-alt but had some reports that new users were looking for us in -prefix. Also no one involved with the Prefix project had administrative powers over the old channel either. Since we were the only users of the -alt channel, I also had a redirect set up from there to the new channel.