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Eclipse Crashing on documentation popups appearing

Feb 26, 2011 android eclipse Gentoo

After performing a large number of package upgrades on my Gentoo machine, I discovered that Eclipse would crash when showing documentation, or otherwise embedded browser-base content ( including the web browser preferences) .

uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-45)

Oct 4, 2008 ehci-hcd.ko kubuntu Linux logitech e3500 Ubuntu webcams

I recently purchased a Logitech Quickcam E3500 for my girlfriend, and attempted to set it up on her Dell laptop running Kubuntu, which initially looked good (simply plugged it in and it worked out-of-the-box as I would expect), however after a few seconds the webcam picture froze, and I noticed a message repeated in …

USB Mounting Problems in KDE

Dec 20, 2007 kde Linux usb

Today I plugged in a USB flash drive (after updating 40 or so packages in Gentoo, including HAL) and received this error in a popup:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing
codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog -
try dmesg | tail or so

Looking at dmesg …

Convert Adobe CMYK Images to RGB on Linux

Jul 7, 2007 cmyk gimp Linux rgb

In my job as a Web Application developer, occasionally designers send me images to place on web sites, which is usually fairly simple. However sometimes I receive images from print-orientated designers, who use Adobe Photoshop to create images in CMYK format. These images are great for printing, however they don’t work …

The file or folder … does not exist

Feb 11, 2007 Gentoo kde Linux samba

I had been having a strange problem with Samba, where creating shares through KDE created shares that are visible through SMB or Windows clients, yet opening them only showed an error that “The file or folder does not exist”.

Syncing two Portages

Oct 3, 2006 emerge Gentoo Linux portage

Like many people, I have two boxes set up with Gentoo, and prefer to keep both my systems up to date. The problem of course with this is that each system must sync with the Gentoo servers to pull down the newest packages.

Wouldn’t it be more convenient to have one box pull down the new packages and for the others to …

C compiler cannot create executables

Oct 3, 2006 gcc Gentoo Linux

Have been having this strange error appear for a while when attempting to compile sys-libs/db (and compiling other software with C has no problems). The package is fine as my other box compiles the package fine.

I’m using CCACHE and Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64.