i'm not a huge fan of american idol. i didn't like it and never watched before! however, as i was running through tv channels, i found a guy singing 87's billboard hit classic, bruce hornsby's 'mandolyn rain'. i was shocked for a moment with how he performed. i was really stunned the way he transformed it to the sounds of today with his magic vocals. it was none other than scott macintyre from az.
eventually, i realised this guy is singing for american idol and he's a contender. besides his great performance, i was deeply shocked to see him having a partial imparity in his vision. he's legally blind. but to bring truth into life, what shocked me most wasn't his performances, lately. but with what i discovered off him, that the relationship he has with God through Jesus Christ. besides his brilliance with the piano, the most gifted thing he has in his life is this testimony of God! his inspiring life story.
having visual impurity at birth, overcoming life's obstacles and how he faced and won life's toughest challenges by depending on God was the most inspiring story i've heard in recent times. God has a plan and a purpose for each and every person's life, understanding His plan to allow His plan in our lives is what most important thing. i'm truly amazed how he has realised these realities and transformed his life to become a vessel of God to use him.
i'm not going to say he's going to win the competition or not. but this doesn't matter. whether he wins or lose, he's got nothing to gain out of this competition for he's already a winner by believing in God through Christ and how he has transformed his life to an instrument of God.
by winning this, he won't gain anything but the world would benefit with what Scott has to offer. who could bring light to so many people, who are in the darkness, which is indeed a blessing for many others. hence, i would be happy to see him winning it. for others would be healed and blessed with not just with music but with the message of God.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
sabayon.. .. anotherone bites the dust
after failing the installer with a bug in gnome, i started installing 64 bit sabayon. sabayon = gentoo ++. the installation off the dvd was a painful one. on my lenovo t61, both gfx/text base installations got failed _successfully_ :(
the alternative was to start the system using sabayon and then to continue with the installation. booting the live dvd and continuing the installation was a pita. since i haven't left with much choices .. i had to follow the later..
after going thru the painful slow installation .. it appeared be working fine besides couple of broken applicaions .. i updated the portage and the system went thru an automated update .. to my surprise .. when the system got rebooted .. the Xserver starts keep on crashing.. and a couple of gdm error messages .. well.. the OS is just a bus to do my day to day work .. i shouldn't be shitting and bitching much about it ..
no other choice . falling back to fedora ..
the alternative was to start the system using sabayon and then to continue with the installation. booting the live dvd and continuing the installation was a pita. since i haven't left with much choices .. i had to follow the later..
after going thru the painful slow installation .. it appeared be working fine besides couple of broken applicaions .. i updated the portage and the system went thru an automated update .. to my surprise .. when the system got rebooted .. the Xserver starts keep on crashing.. and a couple of gdm error messages .. well.. the OS is just a bus to do my day to day work .. i shouldn't be shitting and bitching much about it ..
no other choice . falling back to fedora ..
Saturday, March 21, 2009
good old gentoo.. all gone!
my first experience in linux brought to me by rdhat 7.0, few years back. i was using redhat quite extensively until it was branched into fedora rhel model. the first ever fedora used was a bitter experience. the second and third release didn't improve by the means of stability.
i made a very good decision at the same time, switching to gentoo in 2004. the initial installation was painful, true. but it outweighs the system you build by yourself in a numerous ways. using gentoo i managed to get :
- improvides performance
- less memory consumption
- didn't install any component, i didn't want to use/install
- gained a very good control over the installed bits
the honeymoon i had with gentoo ended around late 2006. i was using fedora since then. however, i tried to install gentoo on one of my boxes to have a slimmed down version. installing from the scratch, from stage 3.
i managed to get the base installation up and running around an hours time. what was installed was really light and i was delighted with what i had built. this leads me to install the x-sever a desktop manager + desktop environment.
i picked gnome as usual ahead of buggy kde4. i was installing 150 packages, which too more than a couple hours. then when it reached the 147 package .. it had to say the following .. after spending hours on this installation:
indicating that the good old gentoo i know a few years back had already gone. this is not the first time that this happened. in recent times i tried installing gentoo more than a few times... all that i realised was .. the present gentoo isn't good as what we used before .. there are so many broken packages .. with a number of bugs .. beyond what's acceptable.. proving that fedora to be the latest pure open source leader in the arena
!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3/work/gnome-session-2.20.3/config.log
*
* ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2581: Called gnome2_src_compile
* environment, line 1966: Called gnome2_src_configure
* environment, line 1980: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--enable-ipv6'
* ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3/temp/environment'.
*
* Messages for package gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3:
*
* ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2581: Called gnome2_src_compile
* environment, line 1966: Called gnome2_src_configure
* environment, line 1980: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--enable-ipv6'
* ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.3/temp/environment'.
*
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
i made a very good decision at the same time, switching to gentoo in 2004. the initial installation was painful, true. but it outweighs the system you build by yourself in a numerous ways. using gentoo i managed to get :
- improvides performance
- less memory consumption
- didn't install any component, i didn't want to use/install
- gained a very good control over the installed bits
the honeymoon i had with gentoo ended around late 2006. i was using fedora since then. however, i tried to install gentoo on one of my boxes to have a slimmed down version. installing from the scratch, from stage 3.
i managed to get the base installation up and running around an hours time. what was installed was really light and i was delighted with what i had built. this leads me to install the x-sever a desktop manager + desktop environment.
i picked gnome as usual ahead of buggy kde4. i was installing 150 packages, which too more than a couple hours. then when it reached the 147 package .. it had to say the following .. after spending hours on this installation:
indicating that the good old gentoo i know a few years back had already gone. this is not the first time that this happened. in recent times i tried installing gentoo more than a few times... all that i realised was .. the present gentoo isn't good as what we used before .. there are so many broken packages .. with a number of bugs .. beyond what's acceptable.. proving that fedora to be the latest pure open source leader in the arena
!!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
!!! /var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/
*
* ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2581: Called gnome2_src_compile
* environment, line 1966: Called gnome2_src_configure
* environment, line 1980: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--enable-ipv6'
* ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/
*
* Messages for package gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.
*
* ERROR: gnome-base/gnome-session-2.20.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 2581: Called gnome2_src_compile
* environment, line 1966: Called gnome2_src_configure
* environment, line 1980: Called econf 'src_compile' 'src_compile' '--enable-ipv6'
* ebuild.sh, line 513: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* die "econf failed"
* The die message:
* econf failed
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
* A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/gnome-base/
*
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
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