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		<title>Gentoo maintenance: libpng12 blues</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/07/24/gentoo-maintenance-libpng12-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/07/24/gentoo-maintenance-libpng12-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get through &#8220;libpng12&#8243; errors on latest [emerge world] (it apears that libpng14 went stable before its time :0)&#8230; gcc-config -l gcc-config (pick most recent number) lafilefixer --justfixit revdep-rebuild -i (a bunch of times, unemerging old blockers) emerge --unmerge libpng emerge libpng emerge libpng:1.2 (see here for the whole ugly story) lafilefixer --justfixit etc.... Still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharepoint must die</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/30/sharepoint-must-die/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/30/sharepoint-must-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft, striking terror in the hearts of corporate America every day with its inane monopoly. Someone please interpret this frightening insanely cryptic Sharepoint/Word warning when I try to save my document! No one else is editing it, I have the only checkout! My head is ringing, make it stop&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>MythTV video hangs at &#8220;Please wait&#8230;&#8221;: SOLVED</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/01/mythtv-video-hangs-at-please-wait-solved/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/06/01/mythtv-video-hangs-at-please-wait-solved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been fighting with MythTV, trying to get it to play my videos for over a month. I have played with my MythTV compilation settings, tried turning off OpenGL, changing the video profile to &#8220;Slim&#8221;, recompiling my ATI video drivers, and messing with my X configuration. I finally solved it by deleting the installation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentoo daily pain: samba</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/05/10/gentoo-daily-pain-samba/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/05/10/gentoo-daily-pain-samba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gentoo has been messing with samba packages (again). I guess we are supposed to use just samba now, no more samba-server, samba-client, mount-cifs, blah blah blah. OK, fine. I switched over one machine and everything fell apart. Why? Apparently when you remove mount-cifs (which properly blocks the samba upgrade), YOUR SAMBA USERS GET WIPED OUT. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentoo lost my dvd drive</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/05/01/gentoo-lost-my-dvd-drive/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/05/01/gentoo-lost-my-dvd-drive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 00:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From udev post-install notes in elogviewer: If after the udev update removable devices or CD/DVD drives stop working, try re-emerging HAL before filling a bug report Done. No luck. From HAL post-install notes in elogviewer: If you have problems discovering/configuring hardware, try adding yourself to plugdev. OK&#8230; gpasswd -a m plugdev reboot Whew, aifol.]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s gentoo blues: xorg needs recompile after adding evdev</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/04/25/todays-gentoo-blues-xorg-needs-recompile-after-adding-evdev/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/04/25/todays-gentoo-blues-xorg-needs-recompile-after-adding-evdev/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve discussed hal and dbus and how to get xorg going with them before. Today&#8217;s problem: the desktop machine needed [INPUT_DEVICES="evdev"] in make.conf, and after adding it, you have to recompile xorg-server. Until I did that, I had the straightjacket joy of no-keyboard-mouse-response. The devil is always in the details.]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s gentoo blues: xorg-server 1.7 is stable, but ati-drivers doesn&#8217;t work with it yet</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/04/17/todays-gentoo-blues-xorg-server-1-7-is-stable-but-ati-drivers-doesnt-work-with-it-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/04/17/todays-gentoo-blues-xorg-server-1-7-is-stable-but-ati-drivers-doesnt-work-with-it-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=951</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a crock of poo.  So you have to mask all this: &#62;=x11-libs/libdmx-1.1.0 &#62;=x11-proto/dmxproto-2.3 &#62;=x11-apps/xinput-1.5.0 &#62;=x11-base/xorg-drivers-1.7 &#62;=x11-base/xorg-server-1.7.1 &#62;=x11-libs/libX11-1.3.2 &#62;=x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.0 &#62;=x11-libs/libXext-1.1.1 &#62;=x11-libs/libXi-1.3 &#62;=x11-libs/libXinerama-1.1 &#62;=x11-libs/libXtst-1.1.0 &#62;=x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.1.1 &#62;=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.0 &#62;=x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.1.0 &#62;=x11-proto/fixesproto-4.1.1 &#62;=x11-proto/inputproto-2.0 &#62;=x11-proto/recordproto-1.14 &#62;=x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 &#62;=x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.2.0 &#62;=x11-proto/xextproto-7.1.1 &#62;=x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.2.0 &#62;=x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.1 &#62;=x11-proto/xf86driproto-2.1.0 &#62;=x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.3 &#62;=x11-proto/xineramaproto-1.2 Sadly, related bugs and other dev posts often blame users, as if using ati-drivers was some kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gcc-config</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/03/15/gcc-config/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/03/15/gcc-config/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/03/15/gcc-config/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spamassassin had a bug with rule handling on 2010 dates, assigning 3 spam points for valid email dates erroneously marked as &#8220;grossly old&#8221;. I bumped up the whole server (gentoo makes it soooo easy), but mysql whined that my gcc was too old. A little investigating, and it turns out you have to run [gcc-config] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>gentoo jpeg build missing 6.2 dep</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/02/05/gentoo-jpeg-build-missing-6-2-dep/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2010/02/05/gentoo-jpeg-build-missing-6-2-dep/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I&#8217;ve needed this exact version of jpeg on other machines as well.  Looks like emacs is requiring an older package (v6) that gets removed when the newer package (v8) is installed.  Follow the instructions below to get the old version, which fixes emacs et al. Somehow all of a sudden I&#8217;m missing the 64-bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED destruction</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/18/sysfs_deprecated-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/18/sysfs_deprecated-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/18/sysfs_deprecated-destruction/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A nasty old kernel setting has been creeping along in my .config file for a while now, and finally exploded on me, trashing tons of files on my carefully maintained media file server. I&#8217;m not quite so cocky about my raid setup now that the flaky filesystem flew right under its radar and kicked my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iTunes: from sucking hard to being tolerable to sucking hard again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/04/itunes-from-sucking-hard-to-being-tolerable-to-sucking-hard-again/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/04/itunes-from-sucking-hard-to-being-tolerable-to-sucking-hard-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[iTunes sucks.  I have much higher ambitions for my own software, but alas I haven&#8217;t hit the lottery quite yet.    Anyway, the latest chapter of suckitude is iTunes&#8217; pee-poor handling of remote files on a media file server.  What a $(*#@ basic need.  I can set up a samba share and see all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentoo maintenance for the day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/03/gentoo-maintenance-for-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/12/03/gentoo-maintenance-for-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bumped everything in an attempt to find a working daap server to serve my music to stupid performance-and-playlist-challenged iTunes. on the server, udev kindly requested that I remove crufty old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED &#38;&#38; _V2 &#8211; in menuconfig, uncheck General-&#62;remove blahblahblah. silly apache [/etc/conf.d/apache2] conf file update, make sure you don&#8217;t lose PHP and PERL support ridiculous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roku Requires DHCP</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/11/28/roku-requires-dhcp/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/11/28/roku-requires-dhcp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally moved into the 1990&#8242;s and set up DHCP on my LAN.  I&#8217;ve been happy with static IP addresses on all my LAN machines, but the little netflix-streaming Roku I bought for the better half requires DHCP before it will even say hello to you.  So now my little network has IP&#8217;s and network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Konqueror needs Dolphin</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/29/konqueror-needs-dolphin/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/10/29/konqueror-needs-dolphin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a silly situation this is. Here&#8217;s the fix for konqueror after you update KDE: emerge -Davu kde-base/dolphin Also had trouble with ogg, had to do this: emerge -av media-libs/libogg emerge -Davu dev-util/lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit &#8230;which did some scary stuff with my lib symlink files. Life goes on. At least Firefox 3.5 is coming through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backing up an entire linux system</title>
		<link>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/30/backing-up-an-entire-linux-system/</link>
		<comments>http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/2009/09/30/backing-up-an-entire-linux-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>m</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nightly]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.thedigitalmachine.com/?p=856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have used adhoc scripts that do nightly backups of my important files. I zip up critical directories into huge tarballs &#8211; not too pretty but gets the job done. I wanted to back up an entire linux system so it could be easily recreated, and decided it was time to get a little more [...]]]></description>
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