Category Archives: Linux

Backup Your CVS/SVN Repository to Amazon S3

Recently I decided to implement one additional layer of protection for our CVS repository. It was only backed up to another folder on the same server, the same virtual disk (RAID 0). “Why not use Amazon S3 storage for additional protection?”,- I thought. Step 1: Compile FUSE support into the kernel and install s3fs Step [...]

Haircut Showing Support To Linux :)

Last week I made a special haircut to show my support to Linux and Gentoo in particular. Isn’t it beautiful?

Coremoid – Simple CPU Usage Plasmoid For KDE4

Update: There is a nice replacement for coremoid plasmoid in KDE 4.3.x. It shows kernel and user space usage in different colors, shows swap usage, etc. I find it more useful than coremoid. You may want to try it instead of coremoid plasmoid. I’ve been using Coremoid plasmoid since KDE 4 was available only in [...]

“No” to genkdesvn

As many of you already know the KDE team has released a stable version of KDE 4.2. I’ve been running KDE compiled from trunk (genkdesvn) with the latest features and bugs for a half year but now I feel tired of fighting with the bugs and since I don’t report them to KDE team anyway [...]

Caveats About Restoring Linux Root Partition From TAR Archive

Recently I had to create a new partition on my laptop’s hdd to install OS X (I wanted to have a dual boot of Gentoo and OS X). I had no free space on the disk so the only way to create a new partition was to shrink the existing root partition with Gentoo. Since [...]

JFS – My Choice as FS for Gentoo Root Partition

I would like to share my experience with JFS – Journaling File System developer by IBM. While searching for a fast and robust file system for the root partition of my Gentoo installation I noticed that most pick either ext3 or ReiserFS. Both are good FS and I have dealed with both of them. However [...]