Since I last installed Gentoo, I noticed spellchecking in many applications wasn’t working – notable Pidgin and Xchat. It’s a necessity! You need to come off as someone who knows how to spell while chatting! It seems the problem was with myspell – the English dictionary for some reason was not installed. So, it was [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux,Guides
Tagged: Gentoo
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- September 7, 2008 – 7:26 am
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- By Mike Gerwitz
2.6.27 kernel note: Everything works properly in 2.6.27 if you compile the kernel with support for rt61 (or your driver). Run make menuconfig in your kernel source directory (usually /usr/src/linux) and locate the RaLink driver you need in Device Drivers -> Network Device Support -> Wireless Lan. It is located at the bottom. If you [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux,Guides
Tagged: Gentoo, GNU/Linux, wireless
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- August 30, 2008 – 4:13 am
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- By Mike Gerwitz
I’m sure it’s painfully aware how much I hate iPods by the amount of content on this page supporting the elimination of DRM. This post just goes to support that. A friend of mine is having a problem with their iPod. The iTunes library decided to be an ass and get rid of most of [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux
Tagged: Gentoo, GNU/Linux
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- August 9, 2008 – 9:25 pm
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- By Mike Gerwitz
Well, it’s that time again. Gentoo is great – you have an incredible amount of control over the distribution. However, that can also be a bad thing. I screwed a few things up, and it got to the point where it’d be faster to spend the two days reinstalling and reconfiguring Gentoo than it would [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux
Tagged: Gentoo, GNU/Linux
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- August 1, 2008 – 10:01 am
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- By Mike Gerwitz
Recently, after an update, I experienced some rather irritating problems with GNOME or any other GTK+-based environment (Xfce, GDM). Xinerama was not working properly. That is, I have TwinView enabled, but everything would span both monitors (except for maximized applications). This includes the GNOME panel, GDM login screen, etc. Xfce would recognize only one monitor [...]
Categories: GNU/Linux
Tagged: Gentoo, GNOME
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- June 27, 2008 – 1:13 am
- Author:
- By Mike Gerwitz