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Hiatus

hmmm… Last post was back in February, lot’s changed since then.
For starters, we are now living in Cary, NC. Why you ask? Well, I got a job offer I couldn’t refuse from Red Hat . I’m working as the sole sysadmin for the release engineering team, but rapidly taking over more of the [...]

Equery magic

While looking to modular-x-ify the new Metacity ebuild, I needed a way to verify the X deps and used this:
for x in $(ldd /usr/bin/metacity|cut -f2 -d =|cut -f2 -d ‘ ‘|grep ^/); do equery -q belongs $x; done
Enjoy!

Life, Gnome and OpenVPN

It’s been quite a while since I posted last, and a lot has been going on. On the life front, I’ve been going through a month-long interview process for a really good job. My first phone interview was about a week or two before Christmas, had another phone interview a few weeks later [...]

smbk5pwd followup

I went ahead and hacked an ebuild to include the smbk5pwd overlay and submitted a bug to the Gentoo bugzilla. I don’t know how well it will be received since it screws with the Kerberos dependancies, but we shall see…
If anyone wants a more direct download it’s in my overlay, but I’m not gonna [...]

GNOME 2.13.3 in BMG

I think I’ve gotten all of Gnome 2.13.3 in BMG… Lotsa new fun like Beagle search in Nautilus and Yelp, OpenGL support in vte and more stuff I can’t think of at the moment.
GNOME 2.13.3 Development Release | FootNotes
Platform Changes
Desktop Changes
Bindings Changes