Some Gentoo and a Lot of Time + Compiling ;)

So after all this time sneaking around gentoo i finally got the guts to go ahead and install it. so i did. there was a little problem in the beginning with the installation. which i can’t remember right now. but i was able to fix/work around it by editing some config file. and after wards everything went ok. i was following the official gentoo installation guide. i did a stage3 install. so i didn’t have to compile the compiler and the tool chain. but still it took a LOT of time

the most annoying thing about gentoo is compiling everything lol this is really funny(and ironic to me) because after all this is why gentoo is gentoo. its a source based distro so i have to compile almost everything that i am going to use. compiling takes a lot of time(and some hard disk space too, i ran out of disk space after about one week from the installation. but i think this is kinda obvious because i had a / partition of ~5GBs). and in turn it gives you ultra fast/ultra optimized/less memory hungry binaries. which is simply cool! but i really wish i had a fast possessor there are many ways to speed up the compilation, like distributed compilation… etc etc… but i never went in to any of those as this was my first gentoo installation. i wanted to keep it simple and inline with the official guide so i won’t mess things out too much.

i did the installing in about 3 or 4 days. no! it weren’t taking all that time to compile stuff. but i was working and i didn’t have sshd on ma lap(which resides at ma house btw ). so i put something to compile and leave for work and come back and continue… so sometimes there were some stupid errors(like failed name resolution!!!) that stops the whole emerge process.

there is a HUGE plus for you if you ever choose to go on with gentoo, that is the documentation/support etc etc is excellent! you can almost find a how to or some guide for every major thing that you would want to do to your system. ex installing VLC player…

oh btw i had a major screw up with setting my CHOST variable in make.conf. for some wired reason i had i486 in the place where i expected to see i686(the arch for my installation, this is decided when you download the stage tar ball…). i just changed the CHOST hehe and this is something that i shouldn’t do. the guide has explicitly told not to change it, because if i needed change it that means i have downloaded a wrong stage tar ball… but anyways it worked for me… so far. there is a lil problem with my compiler, its also i486 so sometimes some packages complain about it not been i686. so i downloaded a gcc tar ball(of the arch i686) and extracted it. and now i have two gcc’s… and so far this new gcc seems to work fine. it is the same version as the existing one other than the fact that it’s arch is different.

my lap starts up like lightning and the apps seems to be much faster than a normal distro installation. but the most noticeable is the booting time. its really fast

apart from the speed, the other major advantage of using gentoo is that it makes you learn about your linux system. i have learned a plenty of things about the system’s bare bones thanks to gentoo.

its a cool system, but the only problem is that it take a lot of time to compile… apart from that all the other stuff about the system is pretty nice (oh! i should also not that gentoo have a reputation of been buggy, insecure, and google makes me feel that this is true.. ex:- if you search for some gentoo package, there are some bug reports/security holes/exploits! turning up almost all the time!)

i think i will be using this for some time atleast, after all i have compiled so much! lol i just can’t let it all go to waste. now that i have compile and sort of build my system, the most time taking annoying task would be to update… the system.

if you haven’t given gentoo a try, and if you have enough time, i suggest that you do give it a try, its work it!

RigPriceCalc

this is a small piece of S/W that i wrote to help calculate the price of a rig(of my choice). it seems for me i will have to wait sometime before i am able to get the perfect rig that i need but still i can keep dreaming ehehe

here is the source(c#, .net) and a binary… (please note when using these file you fill have to rename the extensions from gif to rar)

Source

Binary

Hope this will be useful

Relationships

some times you come across stuff that are really hard to understand. or at least stuff that seems to be really hard to understand. i think i have come across something like that… it have a “property” of mine to like and do things that are normally different… from the things that others do. and i always think in a manner where there are really low number of limits… like freedom… to all of my thoughts or something like that…

so when ever a problem comes to my mind i just try to think of it as freely as possible. now of course i can’t really think about stuff 100% freely… for example. if i am asked to think about MS i can’t hardly think of any good they are doing! now of course… they do have good things. but i feel that i am turning out to be a linux/foss fan boy. with time this have happened(and i don’t really see any reason why i should be unhappy about me been a linux fan boy…). hmmm but anyways there are more things to think about now. more things other than stuff like linux(sweet), computers, internet, bit torrent and ratio cheating….

hehe… i think i am in some intermediate state where i must choose whether i should enter a relationship or whether i should leave it. by all logical means this relationship would turn out to be so stupid…

she is older and she comes from a different ethnic background… so yeah its a girl lets just list the good’s and bad’s i’ve got cause of this…

been positive let’s start with the good’s

* i feel love after sometime

* have a feeling of been cared by someone

* feel that i am valued

* feel good(kinda evil ) when ‘other’ girls looks at me and this ‘girl’ goes nervous about others looking at me hehe…

* i am learning to take up responsibilities i guess…

Bads

* running out of time!

* more money spent on communication(sms… phone bills… )

* life feels complicated (i love every thing simple)

* i fear that my parents will find out about this(in that case if they do i am kinda dead…)

* feel this is a waste of time sometimes as all this seems to be very temporary and unrealistic…

* i am confused and i am blogging about this….

well for me it seems that the goods that i listed are more sillier than the bads…(yeah for you who read this all of them should look silly, i expect this…) but i don’t really wanna loose someone who loves and values me… i mean heck… not every girl falls in love with me!(who am i after all a geek hehe… well of course there are geek girls out there too… )