The upstairs bathroom, what a pain:

The painting is off to a good start, we’ve gotten the living room prepped and started. This afternoon we’ll get it finished up and move onto the next room.

We’ve also managed to get 2 entire walls completely stripped in the kitchen including all nails and loose spintering wood. This means that latter today we can get the the doorway reframed from 27 inches wide to 60 inches. This should open the kitchen up to the dining room nicely.

Turns out that after all this work I’ve discovered that the rear windows in the kitchen need to replace, which isn’t so bad since I would like to raise them up a bit anyways.

We got the dumpster finally, only the 15 cubic yard …

Ok so yesterday I chopped the plumbing up all the way down to the main sewer line. This means of course that there is no plumbing at all in the house. Today I plan on fixing that.

The kitchen is comming along, another 3-5 days and it should be compleatly gutted.

So here’s some pictures..

We’ve bought our first home, it needs a lot of work and I intend on documenting all of it.

Part 1, The Basement:

Part 2, Kitchen/Living Room:

Part 3, The Downstairs Rooms:

Part 4, Demolition

Wow, 16 days since my last post… we’ll I’ve been busy getting ready to move and dealing with the idiocracy that exists in the current educational system of NY State. “both higher and lower ed”

None the less I’ve found time to get the new media center up and on it’s feet temporarily.

I’ve ordered some additional components including a new 680Watt Power Supply with Ultra Quiet Fans, and ATI 9550 Video card to power the soon to be purchased LCDTV. The system it’s self is a 3.2 “thanks adam for the correction” 2.5 GHz Celeron with 2 GB of Ram and 1.75TB of Storage. This leaves me with roughly 320GB of Space to play with for the imediate future.

For the time …

Last night I experienced a new “for me” error with gentoo, I was trying to emerge qt3 and kept getting dependency errors, so I hunted down the specific problem which ended up being glib related. So my next step was to try emerging it individually and as you can see I got the following error:
Mythria ~ # emerge  =dev-libs/glib-2.16*
Calculating dependencies… done!
[nomerge      ] dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1  USE=”fam -debug -doc -hardened (-selinux) -xattr”
[ebuild  N    ]  app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1  USE=”python -debug”
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1  USE=”fam -debug -doc -hardened (-selinux) -xattr”
!!! Error: circular dependencies:

(’ebuild’, ‘/’, ‘app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1′, ‘merge’) depends on
(’ebuild’, ‘/’, ‘dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1′, ‘merge’) (hard)
(’ebuild’, ‘/’, ‘dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1′, ‘merge’) depends on
(’ebuild’, ‘/’, ‘app-admin/gamin-0.1.9-r1′, ‘merge’) (hard)

!!! Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
!!! disabling USE flags that trigger optional …

Setting Up Checkrootkit to scan for rootkits daily is very easy, the following proceadure will install everything needed and schedule the system to scan for rootkits at midnight each day. If it finds anything suspisious or bad then it will email you a report.

Install chkrootkit “aptitude install chkrootkit” or “emerge chkrootkit” or “yum install chkrootkit” it all depends on the type of system you’re using, I’m using multiple platforms of Gentoo, Fedora and Kubuntu so each are applicable.
Install Mailx to automatically mail you, this is the same procedure such as “aptitude install mailx”
Setup Chkrootkit to automatically run with Cron job… “crontab -e” and Input the following

0 0 * * * (chkrootkit -q > message 2>&1; diff -w whitelist message | …

The Quick and Dirty Version -

As usual it’s not our intention to break the bank when building a media center. Now it’s true that you can purchase a number of beautiful cases and components to make your media pc blend in with the rest of the electronics that you may have in your home entertainment center but for myself I prefer to get some use of components that may not look the greatest but will simply do the job.

For this system I chose an ACER 5200D that I had laying around, it was a donation from a friend and I thought I would give it a second life. It’s basic specifications are as follows:

* Acer 5200D Desktop Computer
* 512 MB …

I was attempting to compile the Gentoo hardened-sources today on a system and came up with a somewhat unusual error

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[2.6.24-hardened-r3cc1:error:unrecongnizedcommandlineoption-Wno-pointer-sign] exceeds 64 characters

make: *** [include/linux/utsrelease.h] error 1

[/quote]

A cursory google search yealded no results so I thought I would post my workaround in case anyone else has the problem.

Workaround:

I edited the  “Extraversion” line in the Makefile of the kernel sources and shortened it by a few characters, this brought the total line down below 64 characters which allowed the compile to complete as expected.

Today, the new Server Case Arrived, I thought I would regale everyone in the overkill that is this case.

As you can see from the pictures, the case has 4 x 3.5″ and 6 x 5.25″ bays I’ve got 4 hard drives installed and one optical drive that for now will be disconnected and just reside in the case in the event that I need it. Surfice it to say I’ve got all the expandability room that I might need as time goes on.

For specifics, I purchased this case Open Box on Newegg “ARK IPC-4806 Black Steel 4U Rackmount Server Case” It’s heavy, around 35 pounds empty, fully loaded this is going to put some stress on a lower end …