John Alberts' Blog

So I figured what the heck, I might as well install some stats software if I ever plan on updating my blog. So, I just installed a Google Analytics plugin. Of course, I’ll have to wait a bit for it to start showing some stats.

I don’t know why they didn’t post this on the Gentoo front page, but obviously the October GMN is not coming. If you are on the ‘Gentoo-dev-announce’ mailing list, you would have seen Anant mention what’s going on with the GMN. Hi Folks, I’ve been extremely busy traveling & attending conferences for the last few weeks and will be required to continue the same for atleast 2 weeks more; and nightmorph is just recovering from his failed hardware.

I just noticed on planet gentoo that a developer, Sven Vermeulen aka swift, has posted a draft of his new ebook on Gentoo Linux. I couldn’t figure out a way to register to post a comment, so I thought I would post something in my blog about it. I haven’t had a chance to do much more than glance at the book, but wow! There sure is a lot of information there.

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At long last, Gentoo 2008.0 is out. Yeah, I know. If you already have Gentoo installed, who cares about a new release? Releases are good for the distribution as a whole. It stirs interest from people who haven’t tried Gentoo and also inspires articles on websites and magazines. Anyway… I decided to switch to the 2008.0 profile. Usually, I just delete the /etc/make.profile symlink and create a new one to the latest and greatest profile.

After a while of looking for a new job, I finally got a new job. Well, actually, I’ve been working my new job for about 3 months now. So… I guess it’s not really a new job anymore. I’m now a full time Linux administrator with ExLibris. Unfortunately, Red Hat is the preferred distribution. That’s to be expected. Most business want to make sure they use something that’s proven and has a clear line of support.

I just found a couple cool programs called turbotail and multitail while searching for rbot using eix. Turbotail is just like tail, but it uses dnotify instead of auto refreshing a defined number of seconds. I always thought it was kind of silly to keep refreshing the screen searching for new content with tail. Turbotail just sits there until the kernel notifies of a change in the file that you are tail’ing and then it updates what you see.

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Hmm… So the site was down for about a week while I waited for a paycheck to pay the server bill. Jeez, paying bills just sucks. ;) You know, the more I look at this site, the more I don’t like the look of it. A while back, I thought this was a nice template to use for the site, but now it just looks cluttered and very disorganized. All I have to do now is find some free time to get things looking better.