Updating udev
April 23rd, 2009
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.
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Gentoo/Layman/eix -update problems.
February 16th, 2009
`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!
Pro/Desktop 8 and Wine
January 15th, 2009
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.
- Computer Aided Design ↩
- Computer Aided Manufacturing ↩
- Computer Aided Engineering (& Analasys) ↩
- Parametric Technology Corporation ↩
vmware workstation 6.5.0.118166 (on linux)
December 5th, 2008
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 
Server Move
September 30th, 2008
You1 might have noticed the downtime with the server over the last couple of days.
We have been migrating to a new server over the last couple of days, and although it was supposed to be seamless, I fucked up royally.
- I say you, and I mean You. There’s got to be like 2 people in the entire world reading this, and I doubt both of them noticed. ↩