Lance’s Ramblings

As some of you may have noticed, I’ve been a little distanced from Gentoo lately. Between work keeping me busy, and me finding more things to do in my free time, its been harder to be motivated. I think a part of me just needed a break from all the hoopla of Gentoo and step back to get a new look on things. I’ve been continuing to maintain our infrastructure as much as I can to ensure that none of the developers have problems. Gladly, we’ve done a decent job (knock on wood) of keeping most of our services up in the last few months. Its always nice as an administrator to have stuff actually working as aspected for once.

I keep hoping I’ll find time to fit Gentoo into where I work now, but it seems as though I spend more time putting out fires there than finding ways of using the power of Gentoo there. For me, the biggest thing I’d like to be able to use is portage as a solaris package mechanism. We have a homegrown set of scripts that work pretty well, but its not nearly as flexible as portage. I’m glad to see other folks inside of Gentoo working on prefix support (no matter what other un-named people will say about it). I should probably find some free time and play with it some.

Anyways, just thought I’d finally update a few things from the Gentoo side of things!

Ok, so apparently I’m terrible at this blog update thing. I guess its too easy for me to find more important things to do during my day than rant online about something. Anyways, life has been doing ok I guess. Work is keeping me busy and I’m learning lots of cool stuff. Its nice being back on campus, though I feel older as each month passes on.

Kansas is really starting to show its true weather pattern: Cold, Hot, Cool, Warm, COLD, HOT. I can’t wait for spring to really start rolling in with thunderstorms and what not :-). Anyways, its getting late and I should be in bed by now.