XRP Ninja

https://www.xrpchat.com/topic/5202-blindsided-truth-biases-and-why-xrp-is-undervalued/

So I haven't done Gentoo work for a long time and I am no longer a Gentoo dev. I haven't updated this blog for a long time. I plan to start posting again. I have been playing with ripple/xrp for almost 3 years. I had a negative ROI for most part of the last 3 years. Things changed about 2 months ago.  So I decided to contribute back somehow. I started with setting up a rippled server. I am running it on GCE . It's running as a validator. It has a domain name rippled.xrp.ninja. I just got the domain verified by ripple.com . So you will see it on  https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/validators very soon. I will post another blog about how I got it up running. Stay tuned.

There's been some problem renewing this domain. We might as well abandon this domain name altogether and switch to gentoo-zh.org. Actually I have already registered the later one. Probably will set it up this weekend. Meanwhile you can access the site using zhangle.is-a-geek.org. Everything works fine, except sub domains, like {planet,irc...}.gentoo-cn.org. Sorry for the convenience caused, if any.

So gentoo-china and gentoo-taiwan overlay will merge. The new overlay will be called gentoo-zh. I have already added gentoo-zh overlay to repositories.xml based on which layman-global.txt is generated. Thanks to microcai for merging the repository of these two projects. EDIT: sorry there is an error about the source type. already fixed.

So, as some of you may know, I have just settled down in San Jose, CA. My new job is Site Reliability Engineer in Google Mountain View office. I would like make some new friends here. If you live nearby, let me know, ;)

getdents64 was added to N32 ABI during 2.6.35 merge window. But it has a problem which is later fixed by a patch merged in 2.6.36 window. IIRC, readdir in glibc works with both getdents and getdents64, and it prefers getdents64 if it is available. So if your glibc is compiled against linux-header-2.6.35 and upwards, readdir will use getdents64, but on Linux 2.6.35 it actually calls getdents. So readdir will be confused. As a consequence, you will have problems accessing files. The system will be effectively unusable. So if you have encountered this problem, pray that you have another system which could boot the machine. Compile a kernel 2.6.36 or upwards and use it to boot the system. Then you should be able to get your system back.

Almost forget to mention, now with this workaround http://bit.ly/d5rBqp , N32 firefox-3.6.8 is working again. I am still trying to fix the binutils bug. http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11956 I am feeling that I am not far from a break through. BTW, Shenzhen Linux User Group will celebrate Software Freedom Day 2010 on this Saturday. If you happen to be in town by then, do drop by, ;) http://bit.ly/sz_sfd_2010 If you can come, and don't understand Chinese, I am always ready for help. ;)