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emerge -u world causes poppler blocks

Monday, June 15th, 2009

When updating world, as we should all do every now and then, yesterday I was confronted with a number of different blocks relating to poppler. Usually I find it easiest to unmerge a blocking package by hand and see if the dependency conflict resolves itself. This time that wasn’t quite what I needed.
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Flashing OpenWrt on a WRT54G using Gentoo Linux and atftp

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

As I had been gifted a nice WRT54G (v3.1, so nice for tinkering), I wanted to toy around with it. Unfortunately I did not have the right username and password combination to access the webinterface. My solution: trying to reflash or reset the device.
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Scanning for Conficker using Nmap under Gentoo Linux

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Well, that was what I wanted. I know, Conficker was hot months ago. But hey, I’m not often around Windows machines and I thought that while I was, I might just as well scan my parents’s network.
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