Well well well

After upgrading to X.org Server 1.5 as described below

# eselect news read 2009-04-06-x_server-1_5
2009-04-06-x_server-1_5
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If you see this error:
echo "Gentoo can speak" | festival --tts
Linux: can't open /dev/dsp
it's because festival by default try to use old sound architecture istead of alsa.

to fix just read gentoo wiki HOWTO_speechd

Or simply do:
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I've recived this message from crontab:
error: syslog-ng:177 duplicate log entry for /var/log/mail/info

The problem was that in /etc/logrotate.d
2 files (postfix and syslog-ng) have the same file to rotate (/var/log/mail/info)

Deleting the section in... (Continua)

Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips

I emerge  beryl-0.2.1 but it want to downgrade emerald

[ebuild     UD] x11-wm/emerald-0.2.1 [0.5.2] USE="-debug%" 0 kB [1=>0]
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After few days i have update my gentoo laptop.

Skype is the only program that was broken

 skype
/opt/skype/skype: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by /opt/skype/skype)
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My goal was to setup a transparent bridge with content filternig features.
( seems that we are under Censorship !! )


I was looking for a good way to implement a transparent proxy and looking for something new.
I started from this links:

http://www.ba... (Continua)

If you like perl and you want to see how monk you are, try
Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices You can upload your code at http://www.perlcritic.com


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iperf is a nice program to measure your bandwith.

a) download it here

b) start server
iperf -s

c) run client
iperf -c $SERVER_IP

I've done some test and here there are the results:

1) server 10/100 Mbit ethernet - client 10/100 Mbit ethernet
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I need to generate self-signed openssl cert but ....

Problem:
When i try to use
/usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/build-key-pass on a debian sarge machine

i got:
Using configuration from /usr/share/doc/openvpn/examples/easy-rsa/openssl.cnf
DEBU... (Continua)

XP is better than 98
XP will not display blue screen of death

Is not true .. i can prove it.

Here is the story :
After an automatic update (yes i wanna see what M$ want to do for us ) the computer reboot and this was the result.

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It works!

Usb printer canon pixma ip4200 drivers can be found here :

http://shan.byethost33.com/

For more info visit official gentoo guide:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Canon_Pixma_Series



Here the steps  (i'm on a amd64):



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Using this guide :

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml


It works perfect.

But i'd use php4 as module and php5 as cgi


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Today i try to install XML::LibXML::SAX 4 fun :)


perl -MCPAN  -e shell
cpan> install XML::LibXML::SAX

Ok this is easy , but i need to rebuild XML::Simple

cpan> install XML::Simple
Checking installed modules ...
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Today i was working on a SUN and i need to run a screen session

The best place for linux-fans is sunfreeware .

Check this out first : Solaris Package Archive


First i get the screen package:
 
wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/s... (Continua)

I usually use top, then sort by cpu, but in this way is faster!

 ps -eo "%C %c %p" | sort -nr | head -1

or

 ps -eo pcpu,pid,comm | sort -nr | head -1