Poulsbo + Xorg 1.7 = (Hope you like downgrading)

 Gentoo, technology  1 Response »
May 112010
 

If you happen to use Gentoo on a Notebook, you may already know this. If not..

At the time of this writing, If you have a Poulsbo video card (another craptastic Intel invention) do _not_ upgrade to xorg-server 1.7. Stay on 1.6.5-r1 or whatever you have. If you upgrade, xorg will just refuse to work for you, and downgrading is kind of a pain.

If you have upgraded already, then here’s what to do:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290679#c4

After doing this, you’ll need to also mask >xorg-server-1.6.5-r1, then re-install the old xorg-server, and finally re-emerge everything you have installed from the category x11-drivers.

Have fun!

Work and martial arts

 food for thought  No Responses »
May 102010
 

Funny how, when I’m busy, I stop updating this blog, isn’t it.

I’m learning a good amount on HTTP, Perl (specifically CGI) and working on using TDD with Ruby/Rails: it’s a mindset.

Regarding martial arts, sensei helped me figure out that my punches are all wrong, and the issue has been traced to lower back muscles. Thankfully, I’ve got tons of subway time now, so I can practice standing. For those of you who don’t study martial arts… That last sentence is not a joke.

On an unrelated note: I always enjoy the fact that ‘martial arts’ is commonly mistyped as ‘marital arts’. I knew the two were similar (*grin*), but some sentences are downright hilarious.