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How To Fix a “gcc profile is invalid” Scenario: (all as the “root” user, or via “sudo”) You run an update with “emerge” and all goes well. Then for good housekeeping, you run a “depclean”. And then you find that nothing will compile! Typical errors are such as any/all of: configure: error: C compiler cannot . . . → Read More: Gentoo-isms #1 – gcc profile fix So there I was, installing all the junk I think I need onto my new laptop and I got to WINE. Yup, WINE. I’m not that pure. Anyway, it wanted to bring in some TrueType fonts and that meant agreeing to the EULA. Expecting that this would involved clauses to sell my pet hamster into . . . → Read More: The shortest EULA ever There is very much more to the IT world beyond the very few proprietary systems and unix and linux… And all part of a wide brave world of computer freedom. In a surprisingly matter-of-fact style for The Register: Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE … It’s hard to believe, looking . . . → Read More: A Fistfull of FLOSS Freedom If you should go up to the hills tonight you’re sure of a big surprise If you should go up to the hills tonight you’ll see better before sunrise… (Misquoted from the Teddy Bears’ Picnic.) Radio Hams continue to shine as brightly as ever and in ever new unexpected realms of communication and Ham-electronics wizardry!… . . . → Read More: Strange Glowing Lights on the Hill Tops Not sure if this is a real bug or just an unexpected feature… For Gentoo at least, the easiest way to boot onto a multi-device btrfs root is to use the “dracut” utility to create an initramfs to do the “btrfs device scan” to find all the disks to get your btrfs raid/jbod up and . . . → Read More: Gentoo Dracut btrfs Quirk |
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