I have used Pidgin (previously GAIM) on and off for many years now. A couple of months ago I decided to install it again, which was a pleasant experience. One thing though: whenever I wanted to open the plugins menu, the whole program would come crashing down.
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Posts Tagged ‘portage’
This week’s blockers: perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib
Sunday, June 21st, 2009Less than a week after my previous post on blockers caused by poppler, perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib pop up as blockers in my emerge -uDN world.
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emerge -u world causes poppler blocks
Monday, June 15th, 2009When 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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Scanning for Conficker using Nmap under Gentoo Linux
Monday, May 18th, 2009Well, 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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