The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Extreme
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Extreme
Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics)	Extreme
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous)	Extreme

Take the Dante’s Inferno Hell Test

How to confuse a idiot.

Avahi/mDNSResponder war

If you’re using gnome and trying to compile something like media-sound/amarok in your gentoo, you know what I mean.

To fix this, just enable avahi USEFLAGS for kdelibs, so kde will not use mDNSResponder and you’ll be able to use amarok inside gnome (sorry guys, but gnome lacks a good media player, and yes, I also test every mediaplayer like exaile, etc.).

Zine

Hi all (after a long time).

Actually Im trying to start a zine with help of some friends. At least, something like Full Circle but with more General Linux, and most more Gentoo related stuff at all.

I’ll try to do something about server and desktop, special configurations, tuning and so on.

If anyone reading this are able to help or wants to contribute, feel free to drop a message and I’ll give a feedbak ASAP.

Thanks all

How to creating your custom *nix CD:

Building a custom, patched FreeBSD ISO install image

Howto build a Gentoo-LiveCD from scratch

HOWTO Gentoo LiveCD and LiveUSB

Howto create a bootable NetBSD image

Howto install FreeBSD under ZFS (including root) (Part 2)

I think you know what you doing. If you mess your system up, it’s your own problem. You’ve been warned.

Requirements

Minimum processor: 1.2Ghz (Pentium4/Athlon-XP works fine)
Minimum memory: 768Mb of RAM (1Gb or more is recommended).

Instalation

Let’s suppose that you have a 40Gb HD to use:

1. Boot FreeBSD 7.0 CD
2. Partition the whole disk
3. Make 3 slices
   / -> 1Gb
   swap -> you decide with your own practices (or FreeBSD best practices)
   The rest of the disk.
4. Now install the Minimal, then reboot.

Creating the pool

After the installation is complete, jump to single user mode and mount your / rw:

# mount -w /

Now we create the disk pool, let’s suppose that the 3rd partition that you create is ad0s1d:

# zpool create rootvg /dev/ad0s1d

But after start creating the filesystems, stop the automount:

# zfs set mountpoint=none rootvg

Now we’ll create the mount points:

# zfs create rootvg/root
# zfs create rootvg/usr
# zfs create rootvg/var
# zfs create rootvg/tmp

Now, we can set the first set of mountpoints (to install data):

# zfs set mountpoint=/rootvg rootvg/root
# zfs set mountpoint=/rootvg/usr rootvg/usr
# zfs set mountpoint=/rootvg/var rootvg/var
# zfs set mountpoint=/rootvg/tmp rootvg/tmp

Use a df and you’ll understand.

Now, copy the whole filesystem from / to /rootvg (there’s a lot of methods to do that)

*DON’T BOOT YOUR OS, YET*

Booting FreeBSD

I don’t remeber where I get this trick: You know, FreeBSD bootloader doesn’t know what ZFS is (yet), so, we need to do some tricks:

Remove the boot from the /rootvg:

# rm -fr /rootvg/boot

Create a new dir inside the /rootvg and link the outside-boot with the inside-boot:

# mkdir /rootvg/bootdist
# cd /rootvg
# ln -s bootdist/boot boot

Now, tell the loader to get the ZFS support and mount the ZFS root partition
Don’t forget to set vm stuff (since ZFS in FreeBSD is experimental, it’s easily to run out of memory and crash the kernel).

# echo ‘zfs_load=”YES”‘ >>  /boot/loader.conf
# echo ‘vfs.root.mountfrom=”zfs:rootvg/root”‘  >>  /boot/loader.conf
# echo ‘vm.kmem_size_max=”512M”‘ >> /boot/loader.conf
# echo ‘vm.kmem_size=”512M”‘ >> /boot/loader.conf
# echo ‘vfs.zfs.zil_disable=1′ >> /boot/loader.conf

Don’t forget to put the boot into the first line of fstab:

/dev/ad0s1a  /bootdist        ufs     rw      1       1

Now, let’s do the magic:

# cd /
# zfs set mountpoint=/tmp rootvg/tmp
# zfs set mountpoint=/usr rootvg/usr
# zfs set mountpoint=/var rootvg/var

Set root  to legacy because the loader will to the job:

# zfs set mountpoint=legacy rootvg/root

All done. Now you can reboot your FreeBSD and start to install things.

Howto install FreeBSD under ZFS (including root) (Part 1)

This is my first post talking about BSD systems, so, I will talk about my first (bleeding edge) experience making tests on freebsd (FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT).

The leak of knowledge in IT Professionals

I see a problem in this week, maybe a lot people just see this.

There’s a person in my company that goes fired because be supposed to “look a lot of pages than doing his job”. Since Im not the Internal Support responsible, and I see that this guy just do your work in the right way.. I just try to help and see this situation.

Well.. this guy uses an RSS Reader, and as I can see a lot of times, he read his reader something like 1h/day.. What the problem? Since the RSS Reader get the feeds from a lot of times (even when you are idle) and from a lot of sites, the Internal Support says that this guy doesn’t do your job, but its wrong.. And to see this, you need only to see the squid logs. RSS! Just filter the word RSS…

In other hand, there’s a lot of other people in the same company that waste the almost entire time browsing www.terra.com.br and www.uol.com.br. Why this people aren’t fired? Because are browsing only one site.

Do you know what is this? This is a bad IT professional, that doesn’t know even a silly technology called RSS Feed. Try to imagine someone browsing more than 20 or 30 or 40 sites at the same time. Strange? Just use the common sense… Common sense?! This IT Professionals doesn’t have this.

Sad to see this type of professionals now-a-days.

This is the result of a lot of companies getting professionals just because have a Degree, instead of read the entire Resume to find someone really useful.

Crossover office 7 to support Microsoft Office 2007 and more

The following is the release announcemnet from Jeremy White of CodeWeavers (CrossOver):

Hi Folks,

I am pleased to announce that we have shipped CrossOver 7 for both Macintosh and Linux. New in Version 7 is support for Microsoft Office 2007, dramatically improved support for Outlook 2003 and Internet Explorer 6, and a broad range of improvements that should bring improvements to all Windows applications.

For our Linux customers, it also brings expanded support for most Adobe programs, with Photoshop CS and CS2 working particularly well.

For our Macintosh customers, this release also brings a change in our product mix. We are now providing “CrossOver Mac Standard” and “CrossOver Mac Professional”. The new Standard product will mirror

the Linux Standard product, in that it will be a lower priced product with more basic support and no multiple user support. The new CrossOver Mac Professional product replaces the existing CrossOver Mac product. It continues to have our best support, support for multiple users, and, CrossOver Mac Pro continues to come with a complimentary copy of CrossOver Games. If you have purchased CrossOver Mac in the past, you have been automatically upgraded to a CrossOver Mac Pro license.

Finally, another major benefit of 7.0 is that it includes many of the elements of Wine 1.0, which was also released today. This is a major milestone for us, and for the Wine project. Our many years of work, and your many years of supporting our work, have enabled us to help bring Wine to this milestone. I am very proud to have been part of this, and very grateful for all the support of our customers, advocates, and fellow Wine developers.

If you are an existing CrossOver customer with an active support entitlement, you can visit our web site to download this latest version: www.codeweavers.com
You will need to log in with the email and password that you used when
purchasing CrossOver. Please write to info@codeweavers.com if you need help with this process.

Thanks again for all your support, and I hope that you enjoy CrossOver 7!

Cheers,

Jeremy White
CEO
CodeWeavers

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Version 7.0 Changelog:

New application support:

• Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2
• Added support for the “Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system” so that Office 2003 can open Office 2007 documents

Bug fixes:

• Greatly improved online banking integration in Quicken 2007 and 2008
• Greatly improved Outlook behavior, particularly with Exchange servers
• Fixed service pack support for several versions of Office
• Improved IE support in win2000 and winxp bottles (though win98 is still better)
• Improved support for modern Linux distributions (especially Ubuntu)
• Fixed a seriously horrible interaction with the Logitech Control Center documents from Office 2007
• This version also includes countless Wine fixes and synchronizes with Wine 1.0.
• Many small bugs should be fixed, and unsupported application behavior should be greatly improved.

Source: Wine Reviews

Unmasking Gnome 2.22 and more…

For those (like me) that are tired of 2.20 and don’t want to install autounmask for any random reason, here’s the list of packages: