Raspberry Pi 7th Anniversary and 25 Millionth Sale

Already 7 years and counting?… And time flies! As is the Raspberry Pi into eager hands around the world:

Raspberry Pi Celebrates 25 Millionth Sale as 7th Anniversary Arrives

“When we started Raspberry Pi back in 2008, we hoped to provide maybe 1,000 units to young people to encourage them to apply to study Computer . . . → Read More: Raspberry Pi 7th Anniversary and 25 Millionth Sale

6,700 years of Gentoo!

For those of us running with Gentoo, there is far more history of this tenacious development than first meets the eye (or your nose):

Poo sediments record Antarctic ‘penguin Pompeii’

The perilous history of a penguin colony on a small Antarctic island has been recorded in their excrement…

There really is some good communal shit . . . → Read More: 6,700 years of Gentoo!

Smearing the Leap Second?…

What Time Stream do You Follow?

What time it might be for whatever meaning of a moment you have – can get very difficult… Especially so when a non-linear, non-consistent viewpoint smears your timing into a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey… stuff (to misquote The Tenth Doctor)…

We already have some long established time . . . → Read More: Smearing the Leap Second?…

Gentoo Portage CPU_FLAGS_X86 Introduction (2015-01-28)

A reminder from “eselect news read 11” for those that wish to optimize the compiled code for their Gentoo systems:

2015-01-28-cpu_flags_x86-introduction Title CPU_FLAGS_X86 introduction Author Michał Górny Posted 2015-01-28 Revision 2

The USE flags corresponding to the instruction sets and other features specific to the x86 (amd64) architecture are being moved into a separate USE . . . → Read More: Gentoo Portage CPU_FLAGS_X86 Introduction (2015-01-28)

Gentoo python3.3 – dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

Python 3.3 has been depreciated

For those of us on Gentoo trying to do the usual system updates test with a command line:

emerge –sync && emerge -pvDu world

– this time round if you have any Python 3.3 enabled anywhere, you will see something like:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating . . . → Read More: Gentoo python3.3 – dev-lang/python-3.3.5-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)