As a computer scientist, my software and hardware environment are the most critical part of my professional life. Furthermore, as a digital native, this landscape is the strata upon which many of my
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Today I had a rather frustrating issue, as svn would not allow me to permanently accept an SSL Cert under Gentoo, rather just offering me the option to reject or accept temporarily. Error validating
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Some non-Linux-dork posts are in the pipe, but today I had issues getting VirtualBox up and running on Gentoo. Here’s some proper install instructions to work around Bug 283617. I’ll get
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I’ve been migrating over to Gentoo from Ubuntu (more on this later) and today had the lovely experience of installing a printer. Since at least 2 other computers will be needing these
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ATi has gotten much better Linux support, but there is still much to be desired. Kernel upgrades pushed through the update manager tend to destroy the ATI kernel module. I’ve found the