Andreas Aronsson

Upgrading to xorg-server with USE=-hal appeared to make things run a tad faster.
However, some really strange behavior with keypress events started to occur. I tried several different variants for keyboard layout, setting special keys etc but I still got stuff like "right ctrl is return" or "arrow down inserts a space and line down". Adding to xorg.conf:

For a very long while now, several years actually, I've been a bit annoyed by the behaviour of terminals under X when you doubleclick links. What the UI considers a word is selected. Selection 'starts' at the point that is doubleclicked and 'spreads' in each direction, stopping at a char it considers to be a word delimiter. A space is probably always considered a delimiter. Sometimes a '?' too, and often ',' as well.

I just read tsunam's blogpost and it sparked a thought. He's calling for more ideas for improving user relationships and quite neatly describes the Gentoo community through parallels to George Orwell's 1984. Now, as the topic says, I've always regarded it as a Gentoopia.

I have to say my impression is that the gentoo devs maintaining the kernel sources does a damn fine job. New versions appears in the three at a very nice rate and keeping up with the relentless pace of vanilla. At the time of this writing the latest stable kernel is 2.6.23.14 and portage just gave me 2.6.23-gentoo-r6. Good stuff. I've been compiling gentoo-sources for a few years now and it has never been smoother. A simple emerge -Nqa world * copy the old .config to the new source dir * swap the symlink make oldconfig

It was too obvious for me this time perhaps. I simply forgot to change grub's arguments from the disc to the RAID1 device. Now I can continue to expand my logical volume across both partitions and add the remaining root partition to the RAID as well.

Finally had time to finish all my data migrations with the new discs.

The original setup was (tip: use smartctl -i /dev/sdX to get the disc info):

Bought myself a couple of new disks. I want redundancy on the servers and now my economy has caught up with my needs. One of them is the latest WD Raptor and I wanted that one for the workstation so i ended up dd'ing the windows partition and making a new filesystem (ext3 with journal_data_writeback for speed) for my gentoo installation. Using dd to copy the MBR apparently wasn't enough (or maybe I didn't copy enough bytes) so i had to boot with a livecd and run grub from there. But it's all good now and I can use the old disk for my new RAID1 installation of the server running this site.

Some people, more often than not they are performing managerial tasks but that's by no means a rule, claim that software somehow gets better and more trustworthy because they can lift the phone, dial a number and bark at some person on the other end. Well, I can't honestly say I've bought that many copies of microsoft licenses but I have had the urge to bark more than once when dealing with their software. However, anyone honestly believing that my disappointments aired with them would in any way affect their next release? I do not.