Turing Uncomplete

I decided to compile my own kernel the day before yesterday, to try and speed things up a bit. Most people say that the speed gain is negligable, and that the RAM usage is the only thing that will be noticeably different. So, off I went to compile a kernel! I followed this excellent guide, [...]

In my post yesterday I mentioned my new experimental daemons set up. I can now, after rebooting, confirm that that doesn’t work at all, and I’m not sure what came over me when writing that code :p
I did, however, manage to fix this problem after rebooting many times to try to see the error message [...]

I noticed one thing that was slowing down my entire boot process - daemons. I currently start all of my daemons in the background, except for syslog-ng, ptal-init and occasionally dhcdbd. This is, of course, irritating to someone like me who wants to boot at as fast a speed as possible. It took a bit [...]

Well, in my unhealthy obsession to make my computer boot as fast as possible, I decided to try my hand at stripping down /etc/rc.sysinit. For those that don’t know, /etc/rc.sysinit is a 413 lines long shellscript that handles every aspect of booting Arch Linux. As such, it is very generic and has all sorts of [...]

Today, I’ve been using Linux exclusively for six months. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned in that time! I have gone from knowing almost nothing about Linux and thinking it was a waste of time that had no purpose except on servers, to knowing quite a lot about it and discovering exactly how it [...]

Last night, I decided to recompile community, AUR, and unstable. It all seemed to go very well until I rebuilt my initramfs image to test my new splashy theme (splashy was one of the recompiled packages). I rebooted my computer and… Nothing. GRUB appeared, tried to load the kernel, and the screen went black. I [...]

In my post yesterday I mentioned a script that would recompile all installed packages on an Arch system, with customized CFLAGS and so on. I was going to wait until the summer to do this, but I really couldn’t resist trying it now.
Recompiling all AUR packages worked perfectly well - how could it not? AUR [...]

Everyone who has used Arch knows that packages built from scratch use custom CFLAGS specified in /etc/makepkg.conf (or they do if they installed them with pacman/makepkg). This gives a great level of optimization control to you if you desire it, the default CFLAGS are generic i686 optimized, but the Arch wiki has a very good [...]

I’m sure many of you will know this already, but I just discovered today how to run multiple X servers at once - and therefore multiple window managers or desktop environments. I have been wondering this for a while - I like X, it is to me a very interesting part of any Unix-like/based system, [...]

I have come up with a few more pacman aliases and decided to share them with you all, just in case they may be useful. I have quite a collection of aliases now, and it is constantly growing as I think of new ways to save time in the terminal. Saving time is something I [...]