Author Archives: swift
License support in Gentoo
It’s a bit sad that Gentoo didn’t promote this more, but Gentoo users now have support for license-based masking. What does this mean? Well, previously, Gentoo already supported various masking reasons (like stable versus staging – the x86 versus ~x86 … Continue reading
Executing, but only when you’re home
Sometimes you want to execute a particular command, but only when you’re at home. Examples would be running fetchmail (or fetchnews) through cron, but you don’t want this to run when you’re in the train, connected to the Internet through … Continue reading
Switching to database architecture
It’s finally committed: I’m going to dive into the realms of database architecture. It’s with some sentiment that I’m leaving the expertise field of Apache, J(2)EE and WebSphere, but seeing the database architecture field makes it up well. I’m starting … Continue reading
Translations to “Linux Sea”
A few people have contacted me if they were allowed to translate the online book I’m writing (Linux Sea). Of course they are, the license allows it. However, I recommend to wait a bit. At this moment, I’m not going … Continue reading
Small updates on Linux Sea
A few updates have made it to the Linux Sea book: Information regarding ndiswrapper Some information about udev and the symlinks that it creates The PDF version has been updated as well.
Online image gallery
If you’re not up to the various free image gallery sites, you might want to try out ZenPhoto. Quite powerful, easy to use and well themeable. Requires PHP / MySQL.
Added quota information
I’ve added quota support information to the Linux Sea book as well as information about the eclean command for cleaning distfiles and packages. The part on building a Linux kernel has been moved into its own chapter, the chapter on … Continue reading
Draft PDF for Linux Sea
I’ve added a draft PDF version of my Linux Sea document. If you don’t mind the A4 papersize and the bad typesetting of the text boxes (I still have lots of overflows to correct) it is quite usable.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
Having documented a lot in LaTeX (back in the old days at the university), GuideXML (Gentoo’s document markup language) and DocBook (Linux Sea) I’m now pointing my arrows at DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. DITA “forces” the technical writer … Continue reading
Linux Sea is progressing slowly but surely
My everlasting document, Linux Sea, is progressing slowely but surely. I’ve started a few new chapters and also initiated a chapter on Installing Gentoo (which is more a shortlist of tasks with pointers to earlier chapters). I also took a … Continue reading