May 2011 archive

The lawn won today

Today was the first lawn cutting of the season, and I believe that the lawn won the battle. I had to double-cut the entire back yard, once taking off about 7 cm, and then a second time taking off another 5 cm. I think it took seven or eight lawn refuse bags, and a full …

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Libera – Song of Life full video

Libera has released the full video for Song of Life on their website, and YouTube. In case you want to see the video without dealing with the intermittent high latency of YouTube, I have embedded it below. Simply click on the play button to watch it here. Libera – Song of Life (full version): I …

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High hopes for lxterminal fix, but alas

I had really high hopes for the updates that came to x11-libs/vte and to x11-base/xorg-server yesterday: [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.0-r200 [0.26.2] USE=”introspection* -debug -doc (-glade) -python” 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.10.1.901 [1.10.1] USE=”nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib” 5,209 kB I did a full system update, ran revdep-rebuild and env-update, …

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