Jackass! 2005.0 Support Group

taipan67 · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:44 am Post subject:

Note to all interested parties :-

Please DO NOT interpret any of my previous posts on this thread as suggestions or advice to other Jackass! users.

I am in NO WAY qualified to do as such - i had no involvement with the conception or development of Jackass!, & am not a member of the support-team. My understanding of the intricacies of system-building is nowhere near as comprehensive as that of Bob & the rest of the team.

The installation-method outlined in those earlier posts should be viewed as nothing more than an experimental solution to the problems with the official installation guide that have resulted from recent updates to the Gentoo-mirrors.

Like yourselves, i am only seeking advice from those better-versed than me on the best way to overcome these problems.

As such, i urge you in the strongest possible terms to wait until such a solution is posted by someone qualified to do so.
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samehada · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 3

hehe

i am fooling around on an old p3 laptop
must have compiled/installed gentoo like 10 times already in the past 2 weeks lol

it's all good though
a great way to learn

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roki942 · Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 4:50 am Post subject: CONFIG_REGPARM

First off .... thanks for all the work you guys put into jackass!

I'm in the Configure Kernel Options step and have come across this:

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

we don't cover kernel questions in this thread. sorry.

nadieaqui · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2005 Posts: 2

Tried searching forum before posting; apologies if this is a repost.

Will there be a Jackass for 2005.1?

Thanks in advance

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Just to answer the question that seems to be burning in everyone's mind: Yes, I'm thinking about Jackass! 2005.1, but I'm not ready for it yet.

If you're interested in Jackass! 2005.1, please check out the Jackass! 2005.1 Architecture Poll that I've started in OTW.

I'd like to get a better feel for what arches in Jackass! 2005.0 are actually being used, and what arches are unpopular enough that they won't be missed if we should decide to stop developing for them. I'm thinking about dropping some of the arches from the 2005.1 to-do list, so if you use Jackass! on older hardware, be sure to vote in the poll.

I'll start a Jackass! 2005.1 Development thread when the time is right. Until then, let's limit the discussions here to Jackass! 2005.0.

Thanks!

bob

tomd2004 · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 8

Hello,

I've been using Jackass 2005.1 on three machines all of which seem to run faster than when I installed base Gentoo. I now wish to migrate another machine to Jackass that is already running Gentoo. My question is, can I simply;
1) Install GCC 3.4
2) Copy the Jackass make.conf to the machine overwriting it's origional make.conf
3) re emerge system and world

Or will this leave me with a damaged/lacking system?
Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Tom

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

You've been using Jackass! 2005.1? If so, then need to check the intrusion detection system on my LAN. :oops:

tomd2004 · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 8

Appologies, Jackass 2005.0

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

ok. your best bet would be to either:

1. reinstall using a Jackass! tarball, emerge world files, and copy your data, or
2. rebuild your system tookit, and then redundandtly emerge the system and world files.

either way, if you want to convert from an existing system that's running Toolkit A to an updated system that's running Toolkit B, its going to take alot of time and effort just to do the toolkit conversion. then, once the toolkit conversion is done, you have to rebuild the rest of your packages to really gain the benefit.

problems like yours are a complex Gentoo issue. they're not simple, and they're definitely beyond the scope of this support thread. i would probably ask this question in Portage & Programming.

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Some Bad News:

One of our mirrors has gone offline. There's just been too much bandwidth demand for the Jackass! tarballs for two mirrors to handle, so one of our mirrors has had to pull out. This has left us with one mirror to handle the 2005.0 downloads.

We're desperately in need of someone to step-up and mirror the 2005.0 version of Jackass! The load is just too much for our one remaining mirror to handle. If we can't get someone to step-up and volunteer to act as a mirror, we're going to have to retire the high-bandwidth http mirrors and find another distribution method.

Although that isn't an attractive option, its just not feasible for one or two mirrors to singlehandedly pay for the bandwidth expenses associated with hosting the system. If we can't find another mirror, we're going to have to resort to one of two options:

1. bittorrent, or
2. purchasing CDs by the mail.

I would definitely prefer to keep the mirrors alive and to keep high-bandwidth http downloads availalble. Unfortuantely, if we can't get additional mirrors to share the load... well... you get the picture.

The timing for the loss of our mirror is especially bad, given that we're beginning testing on Jackass! 2005.1 and we're planning on a release in the near future.

Please help if you can. I'm looking for people to act as mirrors, and people who can help set-up a bittorrent tracker.

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Please vote in these two Jackass! Polls:

How Many PCs Do You Run Jackass! On?

Jackass! 2005.1 - Vote for Architectures

thanks!

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

Google Sucks.

The Jackass! Project website at http://jackass.homelinux.org had been participating in the Google AdSense program since I took over the webserver's hosting duties in May, 2005. We've been hosting Ads by Google at The Jackass! Project for 4 months now, in the hope that Ads by Google would help to offset some of the expenses involved in hosting the web site.

Click-through revenues have always been low -- over the four months that we've been participating in Ads by Google, we had never generated enough revenue to generate a payout check from Google. That looked like it would all change on Friday, as on Friday we crossed threshold -- we had finally generated the $100 minimum balance to qualify for disbursement in the form of a check. According to the program standards, Google was supposed to send us a check sometime next month.

The illusion of actually being paid what we were owed by Google ended today -- two days after our successfully became elegible for payment, I received an e-mail that vaguely accused The Jackass! Project of some form of illegitimate robotic clicking activity, but failed to identify the nature of the problem. In the email, we were told that our account had been canceled and that our $100 would be kept by Google instead of being paid to us under the terms of our participation agreement.

We participated in good faith in the Ads by Google program for four months. Our users supported the project by clicking on the ads. Now that its time for Google to actually pay what they owe us, they unilaterally decided to close our account. They kept our money. They even deleted our account records so that we don't have sufficient documentation to file a letter of protest.

The moral of the story: don't waste your time with Ads by Google. They don't honor their debts.

The saddest part of this is that we've lost a source of revenue that we were counting on to support the Jackass! Project. Now we'll have to find an alternative method of offseting our operating expenses.

Stephonovich · n00b Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 72 Location: United States

Yeah, that's a common problem with AdSense. Unfortunately, there were people utilizing such methods early on in the program, which caused Google to institute rather draconian laws. I fear, though, that they've overstepped the boundaries a bit.
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gnychis · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 1:50 am Post subject:

the documentation for 2005.0 jackass installation is offline

can someone host the .pdf for me?

thanks!

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r3zzo · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 66 Location: ../chile

*** edit ***

sorry Bob P.
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gnychis · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:36 am Post subject:

thanks dude!

gnychis · Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

I am very happy with jackass

I was wondering... I have a dual 500mhz system at home. It is a P3 system I believe.

Can I use jackass P3 since it is dual processors? or do i need to do stage 1/3 install?

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gnychis · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

thank you nightmorph

i will let you know how it goes

macgyverSSUC · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:24 am Post subject:

I was installing Jackass on my laptop following the Jackass documentation posted a while back, except for one thing...I used ext3 instead of resierfs as my FS.

I rebooted and I got an error about fschck and ext2. (sorry do not know the rest...I can get it later).

I really have no idea what it could be, it sound like i made an error in fstab

Bob P · Advocate Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 3374 Location: USA

here is an excerpt from the first quote in the Support Thread: