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The ebuild for the Linux port of DC++ Direct Connect client (Linux DC++) was added today to Gentoo portage. I was waiting for a long time to see a reliable Direct Connect client on Linux.

Urmatorul text a fost scris de DNA in 1999. Toate drepturile care este e ale lui.Â

Popescu si durerile Facerii
(sau nu tot ce face mecanica din om se mananca cu cac*t)

…Popescu se uita lung la un CD, dupa care il puse la loc si incepu sa se plimbe prin camera. “pipal pipal pipal pipal…” repeta el monosilabic, si bagandu-si p*la isi schimba sireturile de la bocanci.

Sau de fapt si-i lua pe ceilalti. Popescu de fapt isi baga p*la in Satana si Eric Clapton, nu asa in general.

Trecusera ani multi… Popescu era de fapt un mos mare si batran.

Da batran, batran. Si tot isi mai baga p*la din cand in cand. “A sarit”, spuse el cu repros. De catva timp se intamplau lucruri ciudate pe insula lui.

Marfa tare insula lui… Isi amintea cand ajunsese aici. Tot din cauza mecanicii, bat-o Dumnezeu s-o bata.

Nu reusea sa invete mai mult de juma’ de ora in continuu. In final isi bagase p*la, isi luase vreo 50 de pachete de Lucky Strike de la Chivu, un CD cu Black Sabbath si plecase. Aruncase cartea de mecanica cat putuse de departe, dupa care se dusese dupa ea si o mai aruncase de cateva ori, pana in Dambovita.

Apoi se aruncase dupa ea. Cu burta in sus, trecu de primul stavilar. Privind in sus, pentru ultima dintre ultimele ori, cerul albastru al Regiei. (more…)

When I was in highscool I was part of the Romanian demoscene subculture under the “PuthreGuy” nickname and I was part of the “General Failure” demogroup. I was also the SysOp of InfoVox BBS (FidoNet 2:531/10). “General Failure” was later renamed to “Float Entertainment” then to “Float|FX” when it merged with “Brain Damage” group. As of 1997, “General Failure” had 4 members:

PuthreGuy – code
Little Kopsha – code
PhM – music
Foaming Creature – code (more…)

It seems that Piatra Neamt looks better than ever this year. Too bad I could not go there these holidays.

(Picture by Roger Mantu)

More pictures can be found here: http://picasaweb.google.com/acsell/2006_12_13MyPiatraNeamt/

Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me.
This assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box.

# emerge -p gpsd

# hcitool scan
Scanning …
00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS
# sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A
Browsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A …
Service Name: SPP slave
Service Description: Bluetooth SPP V1.23
Service RecHandle: 0×10000
Service Class ID List:
“Serial Port” (0×1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
“L2CAP” (0×0100)
“RFCOMM” (0×0003)
Channel: 1
Language Base Attr List:
code_ISO639: 0x656e
encoding: 0x6a
base_offset: 0×100

# rfcomm connect 0 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A
Connected /dev/rfcomm0 to 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A on channel 1
Press CTRL-C for hangup

On another terminal, start the gps daemon.

# gpsd /dev/rfcomm0

The fun begins:

# xgps

I run into some problems when I upgraded udev to version 103 on Gentoo.

In order to have it working I needed to:

emerge -C coldplug
emerge -C hotplug
emerge -C hotplug-base
emerge -C udev

rm -rf /etc/hotplug
rm -rf /etc/hotplug.d
rm -rf /etc/udev
emerge udev
emerge baselayout

etc-update

rc-update del coldplug
rm -f /etc/init.d/coldplug

reboot

See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml and http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html
for more information about udev.

For the first time ever, the Linux Kernel includes a stackable file system. The new file system name is eCryptfs and it is based on FiST.

“eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key, and there is no need to keep track of any additional information aside from what is already in the encrypted file itself. “

eCryptfs can make use of the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) using TPM Keyring.

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