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Bleah. Totally run down. Stressed out, burned out, and all-around fried. But still clinging desperately to life in the hopes that it might all settle down at some point. (It has to settle down, right?)
Thanks to a bumper crop of ragweed, I have spent the last two weeks wanting to claw […]

Partly because I don’t want to lose these links, and partly because David Stanek wanted some advice on getting his Gentoo boxen to hibernate… Here are the two most useful links that I came across, which got me working without any troubles:

Gentoo Wiki: Software Suspend v2 HOWTO
Craig’s Linux Notes: Hibernate

Most important for me with […]

I’m posting this more to remember how the heck I got it working than to be any sort of definitive reference. But some folks might find it useful…

In /etc/portage/package.keywords:
www-apps/moinmoin ~x86
www-apache/mod_proxy_html ~x86
dev-libs/libxml2 ~x86
Emerge stuff:
emerge apache2
emerge moinmoin
emerge libxml2
emerge mod_proxy_html
emerge twisted
Read a bit of Apache Week’s excellent and helpful article on running a reverse proxy on Apache. […]

I’m slowly but surely getting my main home Gentoo box back in order after deciding to blow it away and reinstall last weekend. I had been running an amd64-native environment for about a year, and along the way I had gotten really tired of all the packages that weren’t available, didn’t work right, and […]

Like a lot of folks who run Linux, I often go months between reboots. Usually, that makes me feel all spiffy and great, but sometimes it means that I’ve forgotten something important along the way that will bite me when I least expect it to. Today, as you have probably guessed by now, […]