Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

[Wols Lists]

On 16/01/2022 09:43, Dale wrote:
> Wols Lists wrote:
>> On 16/01/2022 06:06, Dale wrote:
>>> I got nconfig to work.  The others didn't because of missing packages.
>>> It's interesting how many different ways there is to config a kernel.  I
>>> went to a link that was posted, still reading it.  May learn something
>>> else, if I can remember it when I need it.  lol
>>
>> Apart from the fact I think I lost /var in my recent rebuild, I set up
>> dokuwiki on my system and used it to make notes of all sorts of
>> interesting stuff.
>>
>> If you can't remember things, find some package (like dokuwiki) that
>> will let you make notes ...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Wol
>>
>>
>
> I'll look into that.  I have a file in /root named freq-commands.  I
> keep it for frequent commands I use and explain what they are for.  I
> just cat and grep the file to find what I'm looking for.  Sometimes I
> have to cat the whole thing but most of the time I remember enough to
> grep for it.
>
> I used to work for a magazine company and I tracked over 10,000 magazine
> issues.  I could look at the cover and know if it was out of date or
> not.  I always had the lowest late return rate in the company.  Now, I
> forget what I went to the kitchen for.  Sadly, I do that a lot.  :-(
>
> Got emerge working on that now.  See what it looks like.  Could be a
> nifty tool.  ;-)
>
There's another tool (might be webapp-config) which manages Apache 
add-ins, including dokuwiki.

I set it up manually last time, but I need to see whether this will set 
it up for me this time round.

But at the moment, my computing focus is on (at work) learning to be a 
power-user/developer in Excel, and at home I'm working on a database 
called ScarletDME - that's DME as in Data Management Environment I think.

It's (finally) an Open Source Pick database. Think back to "the database 
is the computer" so it's much more than a relational database, and its 
data-model is a superset of relational.

Only snag is, relational (like Pascal) tries to force you to "do the 
right thing", and as I'm finding out that's easier said than done. Pick 
(like C) just gives you all the rope you need to hang yourself with ! ;-)

If anybody likes the sound of it, feel free to download and play! 
There's a ScarletDME google group, you'll be very welcome. Just be 
warned, despite being based on a very successful commercial product 
(OpenQM), the basic thing is very much text based, and I get the 
impression that ScarletDME is a bit raw round the edges at the moment. 
Your typical user lives in the command line and has never heard of 
database connectivity, despite it being both feasible, and easy.

Hope to see people there!

Cheers,
Wol