Announcement to all users.
The kolga node due to some upgrades is and will remain inactive today (all the links are or will be down as well as the Access Point). The services offered and the link status will be restored (hopefully) at the end of the day.
For any new Information streams or any other status update this post will be updated.
From the management…
One of the problems I had recently on a x86_64 gentoo installation with an ati 1550 graphics adapter was the constant Xorg-server crashing with the following message;
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
That message was haunting the damned Xserver and strangely enough, I had never seen it in my linux quest through the years. When the X couldn’t load it never segfaulted. During my courses at ceid and the C language classes [1][2] [and others], I had the strong belief that a segfault (signal 11) occurs only due to a PEBKAC. Namely from poor programming practice or from incorrect linking.
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It was sometime since I returned from vocation and I hadn’t use the gen64 system for a demanding task. Recently I had to do some simulations with ns2 and the performance was really poor! Meaning that some simple scenarios that demanded about 30 seconds (on the same system) required about 6-7minutes to complete. This utterly irritating behavior was most unexpected so actions should be taken to revert it.
Hi all,
this is supposed to be some kind of tutorial series that tries to focus into the only disadvantage that gentoo has. The wasted cpu cycles due to constant compiling. And constant compiling means less productivity and of course more energy consumption. The last one is quite critical now days for home users or for operators owning a dedicated server in a datacenter with some power management rules.
The solutions for these so far that I have thought of are two (if you have something else on your mind please be my guest and comment in order to add it in the series)
After summer vacations I decided it was high time to freshen up the gentoo systems (all of them are x86_64 arch - remind me one day to write some about the home network 
). Well after some 200+ packages marked for build I sat back and continued with my writing assignment…
One of the emerging google applications thouroughly used is the google analytics.
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