Classes are finally out for summer and it is time for catch up.  Still, I had time to cause undue stress in my life.  I decided to do what I […]

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Not something I take lightly, nor is it something I look forward to doing.  In Gentoo the emerge “-e” means rebuild all packages installed on the system that portage has […]

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I was looking for an OCR app to use with Gnome/Gentoo and decided to give OCRFeeder a try.  It is available in the an overlay which makes it easier to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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