With the todays performance of our computer, the speed of compilation has been improved to the point that distributed building could be slower than local builds (it would take much more to throw your files and their dependency over your…
Boost Linux kernel compilation for Raspberry Pi
I do a lot of experiments with my new RPi nowadays. It's like in the old days, in the early of '90s, when I've got my HC-91, the Romanian ZX-Spectrum clone. There is one small difference, though: the HC-91 has…
The true price of Raspberry Pi. The cheapest setup
After getting the long awaited Raspberry Pi board I started to google for the required equipments in order to boot-up the board: the Raspberry Pi board, it cost me ~40$ from the local distributor SD(HC) Card I use a 2G…
Gentoo on Raspberry Pi
Few weeks ago I received my long awaited Raspberry Pi board. For those that (yet) don't know what a Raspberry-Pi is, "The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It's a capable…
e1000e - The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
With the recent version of Linux kernel (just a guess) you may discover that your Intel 825** network card (e1000e) is not working anymore and dmesg is displaying an annoying message like this: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver e1000e 0000:0x:00.0:…
Rescue a deleted partition
When you work with several disks is easy to get confused and to delete a partition that you don't really want. First advice: DO NOT PANIC! In fact STOP doing anything! Try to figure out what went wrong, what you…
Oops, I did it again!
Those who are playing with fire sometimes they just get burned. I was trying to create a backup for one of my HDD partition, some kind of partition-to-partition backup. After playing a while with dd and experimenting different CLI options…
Upgrade laptop CPU
Do you ever wanted to upgrade laptop CPU but you was not sure if it's possible or didn't know how to do it? So was I. I will tell you my story... I had a HP Compaq 6820s laptop. Yes,…
Gentoo before and after SSD
I have decide to give a try to SSD technology, even if it's not that cheap nowadays. So, I have bought a Corsair Force 3 SSD 90GB (which supports SATA III too) and replaced the old Toshiba 160GB 5400 rpm…