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New blog

It has been a long time since last blog post. Not that I have nothing to say, but a lot has happend in last half a year and I promised myself I would switch to new blogging platform before using it again. Welcome blogofile. Since Zine is history, I figured out static website/blog is what I should do in the first place. Now, my whole blog (including all posts) is available at github.com. Instead of reporting issues with blog in comments, you can create pull request for me to review and push to production.

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Gentoo, ION 330 and XBMC == perfect HTPC

During last two days I managed to install my HTPC (soon I will add printers and samba to it). There is a lot of useful information around the internet which helped me on the way. I really like to create Gentoo from scratch logs, so I would like to share it with you together with used patches (in my iElectric gentoo repository). DISCLAIMER: This is far from perfect (even the ebuilds), but it works;) DISCLAIMER2: I'm aware this is not the noobs guide, it's more of a reference manual

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GSoC 2010 report for gpypi2 under Gentoo Linux

GSoC 2010 is history, but more and more is going on. Let me rephrase a bit what was my project over this summer, what does it provide and what will the future bring. gpypi2 has become quite more than it's primary goal, installation of Python packages has never been easier: Create/echo Gentoo Linux ebuilds from Python Package Index or from Python source (with help of distutils) Install that ebuild with invoking emerge Create overlay from all working packages on Python Package Index Install Very easy.

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