Fritz Thomas

Archive for August, 2009

You can safely empty some directory`s in Gentoo. But as always – first make sure if my suggestions are OK for YOU too!

# As superuser
gentoo ~ # emerge –sync
gentoo ~ # emerge -av gentoolkit
gentoo ~ # emerge -av –newuse –deep –update world
gentoo ~ # emerge -av –depclean
gentoo ~ # revdep-rebuild
gentoo ~ # rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/*
gentoo [...]

I recently stumpled across Swiftfox when i searched for a Firefox 3.5 .deb File for Ubuntu 9.04. The .deb Files should be compatible with all Debian based distributions.
The benefit of Swiftfox is it is up-to-date with the latest Firefox Version and you get it as an optimized build for your CPU! Currently there are build [...]

Recently on the TYPO3-5 Mailing-List Eike Starkmann wrote about his master thesis project called Saros:

“Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and
distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to
work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby,
SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses on programming in Eclipse.”

He [...]



  • subbu: Hey, Thanks a lot. I was searching for something similar. Subbu
  • Maik: Habe jetzt für ein eigenes (schon ewig geplantes) Projekt auch mit dem ZF(version 1.10) angefangen und das tutorial hier hat trotzdem noch ganz gut g
  • Andreas: Auf jeden Fall eine gelungene Einführung, danke. Vielleicht gibt es ja 2010 den zweiten Teil ;)
  • Hartmut: Genau das Leserecht war bei mir das Problem. Danke.
  • admin: Hi! For more information go to http://extjs.com/ . There is a preview video of this Tool called Ext.De
  • jagocoding: nice info bro... where can i download this tools ?? can u give me ulr, this is free or not ?
  • admin: Of course! This should be rm -rf /tmp/*
  • Christian: rm -rf /tmp* bad idea. at least do rm -rf /tmp/* but if things go worse it will skrew your X Session
  • Aleksandr: Hi! Thank you, it really works, you could even do it in one line like here: http://www.devhands.com/2010/01/how-to-get-the-full-path-from-the-running
  • matt: thanks for the tip. freeing up the distfiles freed me up 5GB of diskspace. My root is only 20GB which I thought should be plenty but my disk hit 100