I previously blogged about allowing printing to local printers via Google Cloud Print on Gentoo , and recently I have been looking at the opposite of this – printing to Google Cloud Print from Linux.
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After upgrading a few packages on one of my Gentoo machines, I was greeted with repeated errors like this one, whilst trying to emerge Avahi:
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There are many ways to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2, the best solution is to simulate EC2 with a local Xen install, however this sometimes isn’t possible, so the next best thing is to create a VirtualBox based VM, then generate an EC2 AMI from it .
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I’ve been looking at cloning ( or somehow maintaining synced ) file-systems between multiple servers, and after looking at other solutions ( regular rsyncs, inotify etc ), a clustered file-system seems to be the best solution. GlusterFS looks to be a popular Open Source based solution, however there doesn’t seem to be a complete walk-through for setting it up on Gentoo ( there is a guide for Fedora 13 which I have based some of this guide from, however it seems to be based on an older version of GlusterFS ), so I’ve decided to write one specifically for Gentoo and GlusterFS 3.2.
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Just upgraded net-fs/nfs-utils to nfs-utils-1.2.3-r1 on my Gentoo machine, and came across this error:
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