so now that i have he adamo up and running i decided to sart tweaking boot times and running process’es, so i installed bootchart2 since bootchart is masked: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy “bootchart” have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: – app-benchmarks/bootchart-0.9-r4::gentoo (masked by: … Read More
here is my .muttrc which i will be explaining a little bit. my needs with mutt were a little bit of a pain in the ass and here is why; -i needed to be able to check 5 different accounts –4 google apps domains, 1 gmail account -one of the accounts needed to allow my … Read More
so i recently got my hands on an adamo 13″ black and decided to put gentoo on it. pretty straight forward. after everything was installed i wanted to play some music through the headphones, and no sound came out.. so after a little googling this is what resulted : cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 | egrep Codec which … Read More
so this is one of those things that you forget about when you really need it. ssh sessions dies, now to kill the session…. don’t remember how ??? neither do i most of the time. type ~ and ? (thats a tilde then question mark) which gives you this : $ ~? Supported escape sequences: … Read More
i like checking my email with mutt and pine, but for this article i am posting the section of my .muttrc that lets me use my google mail (@pissedoffadmins.com for this example) : set imap_user = “USER@pissedoffadmins.com” set imap_pass = “PASSWORD” set smtp_url = “smtp://USER@smtp.gmail.com:587/” set smtp_pass = “PASSWORD” set from = “USER@pissedoffadmins.com” set realname … Read More
at time of writing, gentoo TuxOnIce is at sys-kernel/tuxonice-sources-3.0.26 and gentoo sources is at sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.3.1. so after compiling tuxonice-sources (here is my .config for reference) and configuring all the hibernate / suspend scripts referenced here i realized that after resuming from either suspend to ram or hibernating to swap that my function keys were borked. … Read More
so after using my thinkpad x60 for a while i realized that my battery (brand new) was dying to quickly, to start testing i installed powertop (Gentoo: sys-power/powertop, other : http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/) and started to notice that there were some changes at the kernel level and other minor tweaks that i could do to maximize on … Read More
so i realized that with the setup i have that i did not have a detailed battery indicator on my thinkpad except for the battery light, so i decided to use acpi (gentoo: sys-power/acpi, or sourceforge). by just typing acpi (with the laptop unplugged) you get : Battery 0: Discharging, 99%, 02:58:51 remaining while plugged … Read More
This is a tool written by rage of some notoriety here at pissedoffadmins. Sessionlist : HTTP is a simple protocol, and many use it to create “program-like†websites. With asynchronous requests available in almost every browser (including mobile ones) it’s no surprise that many people create a zillion and one sites for almost any purpose. … Read More
so, after compiling a new kernel from gentoo sources (3.2.11) and a restart, my trusty old x60 freezes during boot with the last message being: init-early.sh used greatest stack depth hmm after a little googling, i stumbled across this bug. so, here is what i did in a nutshell to get my machine back up … Read More