Comments for Lance Albertson

Comment on Adding a simple progress bar to dd by Hal Pomeranz

Hal Pomeranz — Thu, 21 May 2009 03:35:27 +0000

There’s also dcfldd, which includes progress-bar functionality built-in (albeit a ASCII art progress bar).

It might be interesting running some timing tests to see how much overhead is involved in displaying the progress bar via these various methods as opposed to just doing the dd without any status updates.

Comment on Adding a simple progress bar to dd by IQgryn

IQgryn — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:49:37 +0000

From the dd man page:

Sending a USR1 signal to a running `dd’ process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying.

I usually set up a loop to monitor it:
$ while [ -d /proc/ ]; so kill -USR1 ; sleep 15; done

Not as graphical, but it works.

Comment on Why you should go to Beaver BarCamp 3 by lance

lance — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:57:25 +0000

non-geeky topics are encouraged! BarCamp’s tend to have more of a tech focus but that doesn’t mean you can’t have non-geeky topics. Its all a matter of what type of folks the attendees are and what they’re interested in.

Comment on Why you should go to Beaver BarCamp 3 by Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:42:42 +0000

So non-geeky topics are allowed? All the topics on beaverbarcamp.org are tech-related.

Comment on Why you should go to Beaver BarCamp 3 by lance

lance — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:00:49 +0000

I’ve had several people ask me about Shizzow lately. I think that would be a great session to have!

Comment on Why you should go to Beaver BarCamp 3 by Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:59:56 +0000

I’ll be there, but I’m still deciding on what sessions to do. I’ll probably do a Shizzow demo, and I could easily be convinced to do a session on community management, Yahoo Pipes, social media 101, or corporate blogging.

Comment on The EeePC netbooks are awesome! by Constrabus

Constrabus — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:00:58 +0000

Have a 1002HA
Installed Gentoo when it came in October chrooting using
an Ubuntu liveUSB

No issues. Wireless in kernel drivers worked with a Vanilla Kernel since I got it.

Comment on The EeePC netbooks are awesome! by emc

emc — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:38:28 +0000

I have Eee 1000H and I want install Gentoo too. When I statrted I will put some linke here as well. Maybe even update somehow gentoo wiki.
See you soon!

Comment on The EeePC netbooks are awesome! by Lyonsgeek

Lyonsgeek — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:55:35 +0000

I’m using an Eeepc 100HA w/Gentoo. It rocks. I’ve ditched my desktop. Its a bit slower but the mobility is worth it. The wireless driver works well as a kernel module. When at my desk it pushes a 1680×1050 LCD w/ wireless mouse/keyboard. The only device not working is the camera just because I haven’t bothered with it. I’m using it for: Postgres, MySQL, Apache, XMPP, C++, PHP, Javascript, Imagemagick, PDF creation.

Comment on The EeePC netbooks are awesome! by Appleman1234

Appleman1234 — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:56:28 +0000

Hi
I also have an eeepc 1000h (harddrive instead of solid state) and run Gentoo on it.

With regards to your net / wireless issues the ebuild for the driver is at http://sf-alpha.bjgang.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/9-Ralink-RT2860-Ebuild.html .

Is it ok to clarify a few questions with you regarding the hardware configuration (namely the alsa configuration) and a few other things ?

I enjoyed your article.

Thanks for your time