Evan's Blog

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. :-)

It happened... I'm getting married

Last night Lisa Roos and I got engaged. It's kind of a weird feeling now that it has actually happened, but we're both really excited. The details are still up in the air as of right now, but we'll most likely be married in Atlanta this July. What most people have said so far when mentioning the time/place is along the lines of: "The South in that time of year? You're crazy...". :-)

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'.

http://eixwiki.unfoog.de/

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:

Putty Alien

Adding marbles to putty opens a whole new world of putty creations... Lamont and I made this one.

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

Greetings

Besides the simple blog on my webpage, I've never really blogged much. But I do like the word "blog", so maybe I'll give it a shot. I'll post later when I have something meaningful to say......