Tag Archives: Gentoo

Hosting a Gentoo Layman repository on Amazon S3

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon

I’ve recently had to create a lot of custom Gentoo ebuilds, and distribute them out to separate machines. Luckily Gentoo has the layman system for adding experimental overlays, so we can use this to add our own custom one, hosted … Continue reading →

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Google Cloud Print on Gentoo

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Simon

Google have recently released their Google Cloud Print service . It is currently built into Google Chrome on Windows and Mac, but unfortunately it is not yet available officially for Linux. Fortunately there is an unofficial open source project on … Continue reading →

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EC2 Micro Instance Clock Drift

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Simon

Recently I’ve been experimenting with the Amazon Free Tier micro instances (one is running this blog). After running an instance for a few days I noticed that the clock seems to drift quite heavily ( more than 10 minutes over … Continue reading →

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Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Simon

Looking For an Ubuntu specific guide? Try here . Today I finally replaced my aging Inkjet printer with a new Laser one. I eventually decided upon the HP LaserJet Pro P1102w printer, as from scouring forums it seems to have … Continue reading →

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Can’t connect to X11 window server using ‘:0′ as the value of the DISPLAY variable.

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Simon

I’ve decided to try out Netbeans, as it had been recommended to me as a good IDE for PHP development, but while attempting to emerge it under Gentoo, I was greeted by this error:

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