Comments on: Hack-A-Day Extra

By: CYRIX

CYRIX — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:42:28 +0000

hack-a-day extra have color images

HADE IS THE BEST

By: tobias

tobias — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:32:07 +0000

why is the photo at the top of this entry in color?

By: Stew

Stew — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:12:18 +0000

holy links Batman

By: bugloaf

bugloaf — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:18:56 +0000

Are you sure that BunnyRanch Dennis is not really from the Bunny Ranch? I think you should remove his email address in case it isn’t published elsewhere. (Although it would be pretty easy to guess it.)

I checked the HBO Cathouse website and there is a guy named Dennis. It’s plausible that he was invited to the awards show and given a phone as schwag.

By: iamdigitalman

iamdigitalman — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:45:15 +0000

oh, and why when I confirm the comment, is the email FROM “Weblogs Inc. Customer Service”? I thought we went independant? Just curious.

By: iamdigitalman

iamdigitalman — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:40:24 +0000

hey, what happend to HAD’s lazy afternoons? Jeez, I miss those.

By: n3ldan

n3ldan — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:03:59 +0000

was that person *really* from the bunny ranch?

By: rune

rune — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:25:08 +0000

i’ve been running 64bit gentoo for a while now, 5 months i think, and so far it’s great. i’ve wanted to sack windows and start running linux for quite a while, but finally when my windows xp install crapped itself around summer, for no apparent reason, i decided to make the switch. although it isn’t easy, i’m very happy, and i don’t think i’ll ever run windows again (i hope i won’t be forced to).
the hardest part about switching is finding out what software you need for what tasks. i’ve installed numerous packages just to delete them after 10 mins just because i didn’t know what programs to use.
fortunately gentoo has quite a lot of packages, so i’ve pretty much found everything i need, with the exception of a good electronic circuit drawing program. i’ve tried oregano (in gentoo is sci-electronis/oregano) which even has circuit simulation, but i can’t seem to work it. now i’m using eagle, there is an ebuild in bugzilla somewhere.
using gentoo ~amd64, you encounter a few problems because of the architecture compared to ~x86. macromedia flash isn’t available on amd64, win32codecs doesn’t work on 64-bit, i haven’t been able to install sun java and so on.
to get win32codecs to work in mplayer, you can emerge mplayer-bin which is a 32-bit binary, and the same goes for firefox/firefox-bin.
as for sound and 3d accel, everything is just dandy on my system. i’ve compiled my kernel with the soundcard drivers, and i’m using the latest (masked) nvidia-kernel package.
i would definately go with amd64 — i’m perfectly happy with it :)

good luck though (you might still need it)!

By: Eliot Phillips

Eliot Phillips — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:41:57 +0000

Well, it is a little early to tell right now, but I haven’t seen many problems yet. I did have openoffice emerge fail, so I pulled out java and am currently trying it again. I haven’t gotten a chance to chase down problems yet though and make sure things like sound and 3d accel are working. I’ll get my tv card next week so we will see how that goes. I used to use ~x86 everything, but this time I’m trying to stick with as much x86 as possible.

By: geeker

geeker — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:31:23 +0000

Your using 64 bit gentoo, right? How is that working out so far? I switched over just after I built a 64 bit box but I ended up going back to windows *shudder* because of poor driver support, especially for bluetooth and tv cards, and in general a lot of applications just wern’t stable or they were masked. I’m looking at switching back now but I’m unsure at whether to go for the x86 or 64 version.

By: Mojo Jojo

Mojo Jojo — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:34:58 +0000

I live for these Hack a Day Extras thanks Elliot