how to mount an existing gentoo drive with a gentoo live cd

im just putting this here cause i sometimes forget this. these steps allow you to fully chroot to an existing drive from a livecd # fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0006bcbb Device … Read More

G1 detailed battery info shortcut

i received a G1 about a week ago and love it so far…. one problem though, the battery indicator is a liar…. so here is a better way to see how much juice your batter has: install “Any Cut” from the marketplace (free) create a new shortcut (activity) for “Battery Info” using “Any Cut” done … Read More

cool site

for the two or three of you that actually read this site, visit julia’s site : Ju cool photography. i’m on there….

simple mass user edquota script

i was in a crunch. so i put together this little hack script to run every night to ensure that user quotas were being set for all users: #!/bin/bash NAMES=`ls -l <change this to user home> | awk ‘!/total/ {print $3}’` for NAMES in $NAMES; do edquota -p <change this to protoname> $NAMES done

xsetroot -cursor_name list

here is an easy way to know what “cursor_names” can be used with xsetroot: cat /usr/X11R6/include/X11/cursorfont.h | awk ‘NR==30,EOF {print $2}’ | cut -d_ -f2-9 list i get: X_cursor arrow based_arrow_down based_arrow_up boat bogosity bottom_left_corner bottom_right_corner bottom_side bottom_tee box_spiral center_ptr circle clock coffee_mug cross cross_reverse crosshair diamond_cross dot dotbox double_arrow draft_large draft_small draped_box exchange fleur … Read More

gentoo evilwm & mrxvt

easy fix to convert ctrl alt enter from xterm to mrxvt in evilwm when your .xinitrc file does not get read: lg@machine ~ $ which xterm /usr/bin/xterm lg@machine ~ $ which mrxvt /usr/bin/mrxvt lg@machine ~ $ sudo mv /usr/bin/xterm /usr/bin/xterm.BAK lg@machine ~ $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mrxvt /usr/bin/xterm now by default your term session is … Read More

new screenshot

here is a new screenshot (since i have not done any in a while): os: gentoo current wm: evilwm term: mrxvt running htop xclock digital top right wallpaper from http://skitch.com/goodies/ (random google search)

new art work

so what happens when the conversation of a lion and an suv meet ms paint ? this is what: thank you rage for that one.. peep the psycho awesome paint skills…