Category Archives: Linux

Printing to Google Cloud Print using CUPS

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Simon

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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error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘…’ before ‘G_CONST_RETURN’

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Simon

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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Converting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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GlusterFS 3.2 on Gentoo

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Simon

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 … Continue reading →

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configure: error: keyutils.h header not found.

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Simon

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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