https://linux-blogger.com This is my blog, mostly Linux-related, but expect to see other things pop up frequently. Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:19:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 After checking out the optimizations in my last Optimizing Gentoo article, you may want to try a few of these. Boot Time Optimizations These tricks will speed up boot time, some more than others. To start out, let’s mount all local devices simultaneously instead of in a sequence. Look for this in /etc/init.d/localmount: mount ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/17/optimizing-gentoo-part-2/ Steam Update (HL2:DM Map Coming) is a Great Big Blog exclusive. It’s looking great (pictures in link). I really do hope that the minor fix they talked about either in this one or the last will fix problems with Intel onboard video cards. https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/16/steam-update-hl2dm-map-coming/ Blizzard has silently updated World of Warcraft with two patches this morning. Good thing they took the paladins down some, but is it enough? (e.g. no announcement on the main website) Check out the changes below (sorry, no battlegrounds yet): ——————————————————————————– - World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.2.3 (2005-02-15) ——————————————————————————– PvP Duels ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/15/world-of-warcraft-silent-patch/ Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce that the portal to World of Warcraft in Europe is open! Beyond the gates of mighty kingdoms lies a vast, unexplored world. A world of honour. A world of mystery. A world of danger. This is the World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment proudly invites you ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/11/world-of-warcraft-european-release/ The next major version of KDE may run up to 30 percent faster, due to improvements in how its graphical framework uses resources KDE 4, the next major version of the Linux desktop KDE, is likely to start up and run faster due to changes that have been made to Qt, ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/08/kde-4-to-be-30-or-so-faster/ A native Windows port for KDE’s graphical framework is under development and could help the Linux desktop environment attract Microsoft users, but some fear the move will harm Linux The Linux desktop environment KDE is moving a little closer to Microsoft Windows as developers ready a release of QT, the KDE ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/08/kde-native-windows-port/ The European World of Warcraft beta has come to a close similar to the one that took place in the Americas a few months back, with a clash of giant monsters and all kinds of races. The beta closed just yesterday, but unlike how the Wish beta ended, in announcing the ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/08/world-of-warcraft-european-release-soon/ After having a burned out tube, I finally received and put all the lights in my case. Since my case is ultraviolet reactive (blue), it glows with the ultraviolet lights I bought. Click to enlarge: It looks pretty cool to me and after I get a few scratches buffed off of the ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/07/lights/ Yesterday, VALVe gave its steam users an update on their progress. A few months ago, VALVe announced that, after Half-life 2 was released, they would begin to create and release what they called ATI levels. These levels were to show off all the new features and speed of high-end computers and ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/05/steam-update-ati-levels/ If you are having any problems posting comments, just let me know. I have installed the spam karma plugin and I hope this will solve some problems. https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/04/spam-karma/ Lately, I have been busy hacking away at the Gentoo forums, looking for ways to best optimize my system, other than the normal CFlags optimizations and ones covered in the manual. If you haven’t set up USE or CFlags, check out Gentoo’s main website, read the manual again, and check out ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/04/optimizing-gentoo/ An IBM report that tested the suitability of Linux software to secure an network its entirety has come to light months after it was originally published. Tested over three months at IBM’s Linux Test Integration Center (LTIC) by a seven-person team, the 87-page report [pdf] titled “Linux Security: exploring open source ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/03/linux-is-able-to-secure-entire-network/ Just to let you know: I’ve been cutting back on computer time by personal choice and there are just some days I don’t have much time at all to be on AIM/MSN/Yahoo or anything of that sort. So, here’s mostly what will happen: Sunday - Mostly gone, maybe on before 4:00PM EST. Monday - ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/01/days-im-around/ Wow, I woke up this morning and I had about 90 trackback spams all from different IPs saying the exact same thing. I had a small talk to Jeremy Wright last night and he recommended playing with filters (about 45 of them passed the filters and I updated some of my ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/02/01/trackback-spam/ Today, being the rabid World of Warcraft gamer that I am, I was checking up on their official site, looking for their next “battlegrounds” preview, an update coming soon, adding a reason to fight in PVP combat and arenas. (right now, PVP, which is player versus player, has no benefits ... https://linux-blogger.com/2005/01/31/world-of-warcraft-selling-again/