Gentoo-isms #2 – Can’t load firmware file

So, you find in your kernel logs or elsewhere some error message something like:

bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”

That indicates there is a binary blob (or whatever firmware) missing that is needed for that device.

The fix is to load up the Gentoo packaged firmware files. Most are in (surprise, surprise 😉 ) . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #2 – Can’t load firmware file

What is with systemd consuming UPower?!

So… Another flurry of confusion and heat as the systemd team annex more code… This time it is UPower as used by the desktop environments for their system hibernate/sleep (Gentoo – upower USE flag).

Why all the heat and wasted time?… For just myself, this is another systemd occasion for where I’ve been briefly knocked . . . → Read More: What is with systemd consuming UPower?!

What is with the systemd name?!…

… Lot’s of confusion when the name “systemd” is included in the path or file name for config files used by other utilities outside of systemd!

As part of an ongoing functionality grab, udev functionality is being subsumed by the systemd project and that includes various config files…

Hence there was some confusion suffered by . . . → Read More: What is with the systemd name?!…

rss2email for getting news from RSS feeds

There are a multitude of clients to poll/read/display RSS feeds to keep you up-to-the-minute for any and all updates and whatever might be new on your favorite websites and whatever other channels… So why rss2email?

If you already abuse your email system to receive maillists, then you can use rss2email to keep all your . . . → Read More: rss2email for getting news from RSS feeds

How To Use Gnuplot

A fantastic GNU gem from the early days is this almost all-encompassing utility to plot 2d and 3d graphs to the n-th degree that runs under the very predictable old-style unassuming naming of:

gnuplot.

From the many years of development, the all-encompassing nature of the utility has lead to a formidable and very . . . → Read More: How To Use Gnuplot