Gentoo now lets you compile wine with the win32 or win64 useflags.
If you’re on 64bit linux then all your wine “prefix’s” become 64bit as default. My googling of the internet seems to suggest you need an entire 32bit chroot or other sillyness to have some good old 32bit action (I want to play Portal).
is what I’m grepping through my bash history looking for 
After crippling my system (don’t update libjpeg when every single one of your GUI based apps is built against it) I found myself having to reinstall E17.
Two major issues seems to jump out at me, though both are easily fixed.
So I got gifted a Sun Cobalt Raq 3, and before I had the chance to see it, I thought I was onto a winner.
Cobalt sounds cool, and hey, its a 1u Sun box, surely its gotta be ace!
Turns out to be a 498mhz K6-2 (apparently it was a 300 as default), a very strange boot sequence and a bodged version of redhat 2 (iirc) which I don’t care for.
Anyway, after trying to update the firmware and managing to brick it, I’m in the process of trying to get gentoo on it.
Annoyingly, there are no k6-2 stage 3 builds, so I’m currently creating a recent one and am hoping to post it shortly.
I was looking at nagios (ah, gcc has just re-built itself. That took long enough) which is what set me off on wanting a proper server, and I only want nagios as I got gifted a cisco 2900 to play with.
So, its been busy recently. And I’ve been trying to teach myself protools and re-wire a studio. Too much smoke, not enough sleep
After fudging with partitions, sometimes the computer will make me reboot before I get dev nodes.
There has to be a way of forcing udev to rescan the partition layout. I need to find out how.
`eix` is possibly the most handy tool in the (gentoo) world. Rather than having to use `emerge -s` to search through portage (or any of your overlays), `eix` keeps a database of the contents and returns search results up to 100 times faster than using emerge.
Sadly, it seems that if you add an overlay to gentoo (for example `layman -a jokey`) and then run `eix-update`, it does not include the newly added overylay, even though it re-scans the default portage tree and any other overlays you might have installed. This, is very annoying!
It was my attempt to track down some of the more amusing kernel source code comments I’d heard, that led me to thinking I’d broken the advanced tagline plugin (tho it wasn’t).
It was also this quest, that led me across this most fantastic graph, showing Linux Kernel Revision against #of swear words contained.
Many thanks to Mr. Holden of vidarholen.net for posting this (and amusingly he’s currently using the same theme we are )
I’ve recently come across PTCs Pro Desktop 3D CAD software when reinstalling a laptop for a friend.
As I understand it, Pro/Desktop is the younger brother to Pro/ENGINEER, “a parametric, integrated 3D CAD1/CAM2/CAE3 solution” produced and distributed by PTC4.
And after playing with it, to try and make a vivarium, I decided I needed it to run on linux.
Vmware’s Workstation (version 6.5.0.118166) is proving impossible to get running on my Gentoo-AMD64 box.
It seems to get installed without any bother, the kernel modules load fine, but then when I run workstation or player, it tells me it “Cannot initiate the installer DB” when trying to run it.
Currently going round in circles trying to get somewhere. -and I thought updating would be a good idea. 6.0 was really sweet.
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Edit:
Turns out, its actually quite simple. And it seems other gentoo users have been having problems((see gentoo bug ID 248813 and maybe this gentoo forums post))
The trick to getting it working, is very simple. Even if it did take me about a week of going round in circles to get anywhere. Delete (or atleast move) /etc/vmware. Then reinstall and you’re done.
However -Rather than downloading an illigal copy of vmware-workstation, or even worse paying for it, why not try VirtualBox as a direct replacement to workstation?
Its free, open source, and frankly, is preferable to vmware. Try it for a week, once you get past the fact its different, it becomes really quite sweet 