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Sorry for the delay Vladimir. |
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Riced out is slang borrowed from hot-rodding. I've read people (those using |
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other GNU/Linux distributions) refer to Gentoo users as ricers. Its sort of a |
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derogatory term, though I kind of take pride in it. Using "tweaked out" USE |
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flags will probably not result in hardware damage. You can break hardware but I |
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don't think you're going to do it through USE flags. Instead you'd most likely |
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experience random segfaults and other software glitchiness. |
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So, back to my friend, he was ricing his box and it ended up biting him several |
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times. I think one time it was from filesystem corruption through power outage |
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and usage of XFS. Another time he used experimental USE flags and ended up with |
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unstable installation of gcc/glibc. He's been a bit saner nowadays (I think its |
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a lack of time). Its all a bit funny because I now use that very same machine to |
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house my personal website. |
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ricer |
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Brandon |
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:04:51PM -0700, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 12:17 -0400, Brandon Edens wrote: |
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> > I have a friend that has riced out Gentoo boxes twice now and had problems due |
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> > to the cflags he chose. Of course, your results may vary. |
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> "riced out"? I assume you mean something like fried, but I don't |
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> understand how bad CFLAGS can do anything except make your code run |
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> slower. |
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> --- Vladimir |
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> Vladimir G. Ivanovic <vgivanovic@×××××××.net> |
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