Do men get PMS??
Jun/090
So i know this is straying from the purpose of the blog, but it a question I found myself asking today.
As I walk around the retail stores watching my wife shop, I receive a few calls from family asking to assist them with computer issues. This is a typical Saturday, yet I catch myself becomming increasingly irritated as the day progresses.
My wife refers to it as “boy PMS.” I’m not sure if it’s a combination of mental challenges and this ridiculous florida muggy weather. Either way, I have caught myself being a bastard today without any identifiable cause. You be the judge.
New Wordpress Theme
Jun/090
I have now decided to replace the dark theme that I was previously using with the intention of making the articles a bit easier on the eyes. If you have feedback and/or find that something is missing please let me know. Gotta love wordpress, they make it almost too easy to customize your content!!
Wordpress Permalink 404 Error – Page Not Found
Jun/090
So I recently switched linux distros on my web server that hosts this wordpress blog. I tar’d up my wordpress files and dumped a database backup as well. I copied those files to my local machine and then performed the re-install. After the install, I imported the wordpress database, transferred back the wordpress files and all seemed to work well.
I noticed a day later that my wordpress permalinks were broken. All of the pages were displaying a 404 error. I confirmed that I had the apache mod_rewrite enabled and that the .htacess file was being re-written. I switched back to the default permalinks (?p=145) and the site worked as expected. For search engine optimization, however, I needed to figure out the custom wordpress permalinks issue. I tried a few wordpress plugins to resolve the missing permalinks with no solution to be found.
Authors Needed
May/092
I’m looking for a couple authors that are also interested in contributing back to the community. We all receive a lion-share of input, utilities and resource from the online community and this blog is designed to be a forum to allow us to give back.
It’s not mandatory that the posts be long and since this is wordpress, we’re happy to take posts from a wide array of topics as tagging and categorizing are built in. The requirements are minimal. Of course, we ask that you have a technical background so that the posts are related to technology. Within that scope, we are open to desktop support, programming, new technological advances, articles on resolving worms/virus issues. security alerts, etc.
If you’re interested, reply to this post or send an email to shaun-at-olebox-com. I am excited to open this up to a broader forum and look forward to reading the articles that our community contributes.
Of course, we are a free forum of volunteers with the focus of being an open resource for end users. Unfortunately we do have expenses (hosting/broadcasting) we ask that you visit our ad sponsors to help us cover these re-occuring fees.
- Shaun
libX11: ks_tables Error 136
May/091
So as I mentioned in previous posts, I use Gentoo as the distro on my primary desktop system. Recently, I was having some portage compiling conflicts so I decided to re-emerge most of my package to make sure package dependancies were all in sync and that the USE flags were considered for deep dependancies that needed them. It takes a while to perform this task, so make sure that you have some available downtime to resolve any bugs and issues.
The biggest frustration I had during this process was with libX11 as there was limited documentation on the issue I had experienced. Here was the focus of the error:
cd util && /usr/bin/make
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/libX11-1.1.5/src/util'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/libX11-1.1.5/src/util'
../src/util/makekeys < /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h > ks_tables_h
/bin/sh: line 1: 3530 Floating point exception../src/util/makekeys <
/usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h > ks_tables_h
make[1]: *** [ks_tables.h] Error 136
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/libX11-1.1.5/src'
Well, there are two points that interested me in this error, the “Floating Point Exception” as well as the Error 136. Neither of which provided much assistance in the google searching. I finally found a bug report through following link after link. hopefully this article helps you to find the root of your issue faster: Bug Zilla Error 15111
Ultimately, you need to check the version of xproto that you have installed. By masking 7.0.15 and re-emerging 7.0.14, I was able to resume the emerge without any remaining libX11 errors.