Entries from December 2005

Gentoo Emerge, and long delays

Date December 11, 2005

I guess I’ve been using Gentoo now for just a little over a year. It’s quite nice in my opinion, and have multiple servers running it. I’ve not really had any issues with it until recently.

Gentoo uses a packaging system called Portage, it’s basically a bundle of files with details for the emerge [...]

Snow? Terrible weather? End of the world?

Date December 7, 2005

Only in Texas could an inch of snow be considered catastrophic, and inspire whole towns to buy the whole supply of bottled water… Okay, a little exaggeration, but we’re supposed to get a little cold weather over the next two days. Little cold being in the high 20s (roughly 28-32), with a 50% chance [...]