April 14, 2005
Linux Cake
At the end of class today we had a little party, and a student brought in this cake. I think it's my favorite design ever. :-)
Posted by emcnabb at 04:24 PM | Comments (1)
March 01, 2005
Gentoo Portage Search Tool: eix
I found a Portage search tool called eix. It looks like it has been around for a while, but I didn't notice it until recently. eix allows you to search with both regular expressions and fuzzy searches (match to "similar" strings). What's really nice is that it can search by information field (package name, description, license, etc). The output is clean and it's much faster than 'emerge -s'.
Posted by emcnabb at 06:59 PM | Comments (0)
February 28, 2005
NeXTstation is up and running
I had a ton of laundry to do this evening, so I decided to leave my laptop at work (so I'd actually get it done). In between loads I decided to play around with my NeXTstation turbo. Several months ago I incorrectly set the NIS domain which caused the system to hang during boot. I found out this evening that if the network cable isn't plugged in, the network subsystem won't start (since I'm using DHCP), and the NIS check won't occur. It was a non-elegant way to get it to work, but at least it's up. I'll need to learn more about the NeXTOS boot procedure. Here's a shot of it:
Posted by emcnabb at 09:19 PM | Comments (0)
February 25, 2005
GRUB Tip - Saving the last booted kernel
Byron Clark mentioned this to me a while back, but I hadn't messed with it until this evening. GRUB has the ability to remember which GRUB entry (kernel or OS) was the last to be booted instead of having the same default entry each time.
Replace "default X" in /boot/grub/grub.conf with "default saved". Then for each entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf add "savedefault". The final result should look something like:
default saved
title Kernel 2.6.9
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9 root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.6.9.img
savedefault
title Kernel 2.6.10
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.6.10.img
savedefault
Posted by emcnabb at 07:16 PM | Comments (0)