I’m in the process of re-installing a pretty old machine with the latest Gentoo. I’ve got a shared NFS directory with portage and all my machines are using a packages directory. After one machine builds something, another machine can simply install the built package.
Here is a portion of the make.conf on each machine.
FEATURES=”-distlocks [...]

continue reading.....

As part of a recent project, I had installed a lot of packages on a separate machine to test my configuration. As is common, with Gentoo, you want to run the following before you actually emerge anything:
emerge -p <package_name>
In this particular case, I noticed the dependency list was pretty long (50 packages to be [...]

continue reading.....

I’ve recently had cause to change a couple static routings on our Pix 501 Firewall. I’ve done this in the past, but each time, it has resulted in a period of time where the new static mapping doesn’t take effect. Thanks to Jake on the PLUG Mailing list for pointing out to me [...]

continue reading.....

In my production setup, I don’t have a load balancer. This may be changed at some point, assuming that we can find one we like for the price we want to purchase it for, but in the mean time, I’ve been inspired to set up a virtual IP address across two machines that each [...]

continue reading.....

Ok, I found a widget that could replace the bookmark widget by simply allowing a customizable interface to the wp_list_bookmarks function. This is a highly customizable function that not only lets you grab all the bookmarks, but allows customization of how they are displayed. The widget gives you an interface that lets you [...]

continue reading.....

I just installed the plugin wp-cache. I’m not sure why more Wordpress users don’t enable this. From the Wp-Cache description:
WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future [...]

continue reading.....