Slackadelic.com

Thanks to a plugin I ran across, this site now detects most mobile smart phones and formats itself accordingly.

Here’s a small sample of what it looks like from an Android phone and iPhone OS

Will the real Slackware Team please stand up… Please stand up!

Its been rumored that GSB (Gnome Slackbuild) had issues installing on Slackware 13.1 from the net installer script. Well, I created a VM, installed Slackware 13.1 (full install) and ran the installer.

I ran into zero issues. Zero, zilch, 0, nada, issues. You can see a screenshot of it running just below!

In response to this: Focus: ##slackware I went through my logs to find the FULL context of this conversation.

below you will find, the COMPLETE context behind the conversation. So, you tell me, who’s causing the actual trouble here? I’ll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don’t count! This log includes the unix timestamp, the full month day and year plus the time in UTC, just in case you were wondering

1278530486 Jul 07 19:21< Tadgy> OMFG! I wish cpunches/bagira/join_slackhappy would leave me alone
1278530489 Jul 07 19:21-!- Redness [~redness@c122-108-211-162.rochd4.qld.optusnet.com.au] has joined ##slackware
1278530513 Jul 07 19:21< Tadgy> He’s been sending me PMs since I came in here… just doesn’t get the hint thats he’s a stalker and needs psychological help!
1278530533 Jul 07 19:22< raela> haha.. poor Tadgy
1278530535 Jul 07 19:22-!- tuvok302Lappy [Waffles@clgrtnt5-port-68.dial.telus.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 240 seconds]
1278530537 Jul 07 19:22< Tadgy> Every time I block one of his nicks, he messages me from another!
1278530620 Jul 07 19:23< Tadgy> I want to stab this guy in the face. Really. Give me a knife and I promise no one will be able to identify the body.
1278530623 Jul 07 19:23-!- rg3 [~rg3@cm-85-152-206-242.telecable.es] has joined ##slackware
1278530636 Jul 07 19:23< mancha> why do i care?
1278530643 Jul 07 19:24< rob0> Sigh. I thought I had him ignored, then once not long back my senses were assaulted (and apeppered?) in #httpd by a “righteous”.
1278530678 Jul 07 19:24< raela> hrm he must be afraid of me or something.. harassment free here
1278530686 Jul 07 19:24< adaptr> what were you doing in #httpd ? let’s talk about that for a moment.
1278530692 Jul 07 19:24< Alan_Hicks> Tadgy: How about a gun?
1278530715 Jul 07 19:25< Tadgy> Alan_Hicks: No.. too quick. I want to HURT him.
1278530716 Jul 07 19:25< rob0> I was going to put up a Web page as monument to righteous stupidity, but BP{k} stopped me in time, informing me that it was Mr. Punches.
1278530740 Jul 07 19:25< Alan_Hicks> Tadgy: gut shoot him with some Winchester Ranger T series rounds then.
1278530743 Jul 07 19:25< adaptr> he’s on his way to becoming a phenomenomenom..nom…nom

In case you have a hard time reading it.. I stuck it in a .txt file

See this link

Today, after going through an excruciating work out with the mower and trimmer, my family and I set out to clean out our daughter’s wading pool.

Once finished, we all sat down to relax when she screamed out, “OH NO A BUG! AHHHHHHH!” Well you know how dramatic a 5 year old can be.

Closer look revealed a baby praying mantis walking over the chair she was on. We snapped a photo, didn’t come out all that great, BUT you can still see it!

That’s right! Oracle is on the verge of purchasing MySQL which makes its future unknown at this time. However, the EC must approve the purchase before Oracle can move forward.

Read the following article and please do your part in letting the EC know what you think!

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html

Yeah, we all know by now that the http://rafb.net paste site is going off-line. Seven years of dedication to a free pastebin for the world.

Well, after a few talks with some folks and after being pressed in to doing (hehe) this, I’ve switched http://pastebin.slackadelic.com to use the code from rafb.net.

Thanks go out to edman007 from ##slackware on freenode for his help in tracking down and fixing a few odd issues with the code. It even works with paste scripts! Right now the official script is Pastelling. The script was originally written by Steven Robson Pastelling, aka rafb.pl, was written by _pragma, but is being hosted on github by Michiel van Wessem.

I’ve had a few issues getting my mouse working properly with evdev in the latest updates to Slackware64-current. Today, it appears, that other users are experiencing some other issues outside of a mouse not mapping buttons properly. Most of those users report black screens when trying to restart or quit an X session.

If you are one of us having such issues and are stumped, try the below in your xorg.conf before you go googling around for 3 hours like I did


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
Option "AllowEmptyInput" "False"
EndSection


I hope this helps!
As always you can catch me in ##slackware on freenode if you have any questions/suggestions/comments.

People have asked, “Is that even possible?” Yes, it is.

I did this remotely from work via ssh on my home box, worked fine, except for a speed bump here and there. Issues that were caused mainly by me not paying attention.

First off, make sure you upgradepkg pkgtools, gzip, and tar. Then install the xz package if its not already installed. If it is, then upgradepkg xz as well.

After that, you should be able to upgradepkg */*.tgz and then upgradepkg */*.txz to make sure everything gets added.

Now, the other issue is the 32bit compat libs that come with Slamd64. You will want to remove these.

You can get the latest release of the 32bit compat libs that Fred is working on here

Now, this is the process that worked for me and your mileage may vary. My upgrade path went a little differently than this and luckily I had a Slamd64 chroot available to symlink missing commands against or I would’ve been hosed.

Comments/suggestions, as always, are welcome.