Month: February 2015

More Snow …

Posted on: February 26, 2015 by Mike
Categories: snow, suffolk, virginia, weather
Tags: snow, suffolk, virginia, weather

Third time in a couple weeks, it melts, it snows.  Blah.    

Snow Day!

Posted on: February 17, 2015 by Mike
Categories: suffolk, virginia, weather
Tags: snow, suffolk, virginia, weather

Only 3 inches.

Snow!

Posted on: February 16, 2015 by Mike
Categories: snow, suffolk, virginia, weather
Tags: snow, suffolk, virginia, weather

I thought we would make it the entire winter without a big snow, but I was wrong and it just started.  

Tracker Thrashing at Gnome Boot

Posted on: February 16, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, Gnome, tracker
Tags: gentoo, gnome, tracker

Use Gnome?  What is Tracker?  Well, here is the official description: Tracker is a search engine, search tool and metadata storage system. It allows you to find the proverbial needle […]

Virtualbox in Seamless Mode

Posted on: February 14, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, Virtual Box

I finally got around to getting a good Virtual Box install and am able to use it in seamless mode.  Not the best picture, but so what.  Click it for […]

Another day, another kernel and that VMware problem

Posted on: February 10, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, vmware
Tags: gentoo, vmware

Yep, another day, a new kernel: Linux littleturd 3.19.0-gentoo-mgreene #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 10 19:08:38 EST 2015 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2320 CPU @ 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux What does going […]

Bluefish 2.2.7 on Gentoo

Posted on: February 8, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo
Tags: bluefish, editor, gentoo

Gentoo finally updated to Bluefish 2.2.6, so I know the latest version must be out which is 2.2.7.  In case you do not know: Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted […]

Gentoo Java emerge issue

Posted on: February 8, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, java, portage
Tags: gentoo, java, portage

Once again portage tells me there is an Oracle Java update and I already know it will have to be downloaded manually and moved into /usr/portage/distfiles. I do this, expecting […]